Good practices in water security: ideas for praxis
<p>This report captures a range of cost effective and sustainable community-led solutions to meet the challenge of water scarcity in the Marwar region of Rajasthan.</p>
<p>This report captures a range of cost effective and sustainable community-led solutions to meet the challenge of water scarcity in the Marwar region of Rajasthan.</p>
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<p>This report on the Puducherry Coast represents long-term shoreline change for a period of 38 years from 1972 - 2010. It summarizes historical changes in shoreline, both accretion and erosion, but emphasizes the erosion hazard because of its impacts on natural resources and the economy.</p>
<p>A report on the walkability survey undertaken to assess the pedestrian friendliness of the city of Pune in Maharashtra, India. The survey was conducted by Parisar on behalf of Clean Air Initiative (CAI) using a toolkit provided by CAI which was adapted from the Global Walkability Index toolkit developed for the World Bank.</p>
<p><span id="itro1">This document in two volumes deals with the Environmental and Social Management Framework of National Ganga River Basin Authority established by the government for comprehensive management of the river.</span></p>
<p>This is a report prepared by EMBARQ on the walkability survey undertaken to assess the pedestrian friendliness of the city of Indore in Madhya Pradesh, India.</p>
<p>Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens particularly in megacities of many developed and developing Asian countries. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen parallel to urbanization, industrialization and economic development.
<p>This report by the IES presents the findings of a study that explores the likely impacts of the recent proposals in India to build a dam at Pancheshwar in the Himalayas on the river ecosystems and the surrounding areas and people involved.</p>
This document contains the International Consultation and Analysis (ICA) proposal : 1) at the meeting of the
<p>Inadequate sanitation causes India considerable economic losses, equivalent to 6.4 percent of India’s GDP in 2006 at US$53.8 billion according to this new report from the Water and Sanitation Program (WSP). </p>
<p>The Ministry of Environment and Forests (MoEF) has been implementing an ambitious programme of pollution abatement of rivers in India. It started in 1985 with the Ganga Action Plan (GAP) and gradually extended to other polluted rivers through National River Conservation Plan (NRCP).
<p><span>The objective of the IEC campaign is to trigger positive behavioural changes among stake holders with respect to hygiene, use of safe drinking water and sanitation facilities.<span> </span>This requires enhancing knowledge regarding safe drinking water, hygiene and sanitation by preparing, involving and empowering the rural community to actively shoulder the responsibility.
<p>A sustained economic growth, rising per capita income and growing urbanization are apparently causing a shift in the consumption patterns in favor of high-value food commodities like fruits, vegetables, dairy, poultry, meat and fish products from staple food such as rice, wheat and coarse cereals. Such a shift in consumption patterns in favor
<p>This report highlights the dramatic disparities in life-cycle greenhouse gas emissions of crudes produced from different oilfields, and points to significant reductions that could be achieved by infrastructure improvements, technology upgrades, and other measures.
<p>The impact of climate change (CC) on water resources is likely to affect agricultural systems and food security. This is especially critical in a least developed country (LDC) like Nepal where a high percentage of the population is dependent on agriculture for its livelihoods.
<p>To provide the background hydrological information for the assessment of environmental flow requirements at four selected ‘Environmental Flow’ (EF) sites, a hydrological model was set up to simulate the catchment in the present state (with water regulation infrastructure) and to generate the natural flows (without water regulation infrastructure).
<p>When governments develop policies, a major limiting factor is availability of sufficient information. Information often does not reach policy makers at the right time or in the form in which it is needed.
<p>While occupying only three per cent of the earth’s surface, the ASEAN region boasts of globally significant terrestrial and marine biodiversity that include an astonishing 18 per cent of all species assessed by the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN).
<p>Waste management is a serious concern for all emerging developing countries like Bangladesh. With the rapid economic growth and urban development, waste disposal has emerged a major environmental issues in the urban areas of Bangladesh. Reduce, Reuse and Recycle (3R) of waste is an accepted approach to manage waste in an environment friendly manner. Against this backdrop, the
<p>Against a backdrop of global economic uncertainty, this issue of The State of World Fisheries and Aquaculture highlights the major role and challenges facing fisheries and aquaculture worldwide.