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Village Communities and Their Common Property Forests

This is a study of three villages in the Aravalli Hills of south Haryana, which have full title over the common lands and forests and have taken three radically different alternatives. One community,...

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Climate Change, Uttarakhand, and the World Bank's Message

The devastation in Uttarakhand in June 2013 showed that some of the effects of climate change are already upon us. It ought to serve as a wake-up call to desist from a development model that upsets...

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Climate Change, Forest Carbon Sequestration and REDD-Plus

The Conference of Parties-19 held in Norway in November 2013 ended with an announcement of a sum of around $280 million pledged by certain developed countries for a “results-based” payment system to...

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Western Ghats Conservation

While no one can disagree with the Gadgil Committee on the Western Ghats that we need to "develop sustainably - conserve thoughtfully", we must disagree with them that the strategy adopted so far has...

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Failure of Success

The article by Aranyak Saikia entitled “A Look at the Economics behind BJP’s Victory” (EPW, 19 July 2014) made for very instructive reading. However, the reasons ascribed to the Congress Party’s...

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What Should the Congress Do?

The piece by Pushparaj V Deshpande on “Recreating the Congress Movement” (EPW, 9 August 2014) made for interesting reading. The author seems to be suggesting that the Congress Party reconnect with the...

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Responsible Activism Needed

One can understand and share Ashish Kothari's palpable angst in "A Hundred Days Closer to Ecological and Social Suicide" (EPW, 27 September 2014).read more

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High-Level Committee on Environmental Regulations

T he article by Manju Menon and Kanchi Kohli (“Executive’s Environmental Dilemmas: Unpacking a Committee’s Report”, EPW, 13 December 2014) on the High-Level Committee (HLC) on environmental regulations...

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