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Water quality of the Ganga River – An overview

R. C. Trivedi Aquatic Ecosystem Health & Management, Volume 13, Issue 4, pages 347-351 [2010] The Ganga is not only a holy river, but also a lifeline of a large population of India, as it covers more than 26% of the country’s area in its basin in the north and drains 25% of the annual run-off. Fast [...]

Water Quality Management: An Introductory Framework

by Asit K. Biswas & Cecilia Tortajada International Journal of Water Resources Development, Volume 27, Issue 1, pages 5-11 [2011] Much has been written and discussed in recent years on the water crisis and the belief that the world may run out of water in the foreseeable future. The main issue, however, is not physical scarcity of water but [...]

Municipal water schemes in a Mumbai squatter settlement: assembling space and society

by Reid W.F. Cooper International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, Volume 3, Issue 1, pages 77-92 [2011] Government legislation designed to address the lack of basic services in squatter settlements in Mumbai, India, triggered the formation of local self-organised groups to implement municipal water access and distribution schemes. In one such settlement, the implementation and administration of [...]

Beyond access to water

Franklin Obeng-Odoom Development in Practice, Volume 22, Issue 8, pages 1135-1146 [2012] This paper looks beyond the dominant view of access to water – defined as coverage. It shows that, while the spread of improved water sources has widened, problems of affordability, quality, distribution, and reliability (“deep access”) are pervasive. In turn, it argues that declarations about [...]

Greening Rural Development in India Vol: 1

Published by UNDP, 2012 This report examines the potential contribution to environmental sustainability of the schemes administered by the Ministry of Rural Development. In specific it looks at: • Improving quality and carrying of eco systems including, water in surface bodies, aquifers and soil profile and arresting degradation of natural resources • Enabling sustainable livelihoods, [...]

Global wind statistics 2012

by Global Wind Energy Council, 2013 The Global Wind Energy Council released its 2012 market statistics, showing continued expansion of the market, with annual market growth of almost 10%, and cumulative capacity growth of about 19%. A record year for US installations and a slower market in China mean that the two countries all but [...]

Not a bankable strategy

by Richard Mahapatra Down To Earth. [Feb 28, 2013] World Bank’s forestry projects have not helped reduce poverty, says its own evaluator. In the past one decade, the World Bank lent a whopping US $4.1 billion for forestry-related projects with an aim to alleviate poverty. But the objective remains a pipe dream as the Bank [...]

Framed field experiments with heterogeneous frame connotation

by Erik Ansink and Jetske Bouma MPRA Paper No. 43975 (JAN 2013) We study label framing effects in linear public goods games. By accounting for heterogeneous frame connotation, we can identify individual framing effects. We test for such effects in a field experiment on irrigation management in India. Using membership of the water users association [...]

Thirsty Energy: Water and Energy in the 21st Century

World Economic Forum 2009 The relationship of water and energy is ageless and continues to evolve. Understanding how best to optimize the use of water and energy will be critical for business leaders and policy-makers. the energy industry cannot single-handedly solve the growing global water crisis. However, the risks for the industry are too great to stay out of the policy [...]

COMPENDIUM OF ENVIRONMENT STATISTICS INDIA 2012 (Thirteenth Issue)

Published by MOSPI (Jan 2013) The objective of environment statistics is to provide information about the environment, its most important changes over time and across locations, and the main factors that influence them. Ultimately, environment statistics  aim at providing high quality statistical information to improve knowledge of the environment, to support evidence-based policy and decision making, and to provide information for the general public, as [...]

Crude Oil Prices and Liquidity, the BRIC and G3 countries

by Ronald A Ratti and Joaquin L Vespignani MPRA paper no 44049 (Jan 2013) Unanticipated increases in the BRIC countries’ liquidity lead to significant and persistent increases in real oil prices, global oil production and global real aggregate demand. Unanticipated shocks to the liquidity of developed countries over 1997:01-2011:12 do not. The relative contribution to real oil [...]

Modelling Primary Energy Consumption under Model Uncertainty

by Zsuzsanna Csereklyei and Stefan Humer Vienna University of Economics and Business WP No 147 (Nov 2012) This paper examines the long-term relationship between primary energy consumption and other key macroeconomic variables, including real GDP, labour force, capital stock and technology, using a panel dataset for 64 countries over the period 1965-2009. Deploying panel error correction [...]

Use of Contingent Valuation to Assess Farmer Preference for On-farm Conservation of Minor Millets: Case from South India

P.T. Raghu, S. Das, S. B. Ravi, and E.D.I.O King Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics , Vol. 3, No. 67 (2012): pp. 294-307. Smallholder farmers all over the world, particularly in regions of rich agro-biodiversity contribute to on-farm conservation. Past and present agricultural progress could not have happened neither without these genetic resources nor the [...]

A Method for Assessing Food Security Information System

by Tugrul Temel and Dorjee Kinlay MPRA Paper No 43177 / 2012 This paper develops a method for assessing food security information system with respect to its structure, connectedness and performance. The paper illustrates how to set up an operational food security information system, identify its leverage components and pathways of information flow, and qualitatively [...]

What drives oil prices? Emerging versus developed economies.

by Knut Are Aastveit, Hilde C. Bjørnland and Leif Anders Thorsrud CAMP Working Paper Series No 2/2012 We analyze the importance of demand from emerging and developed economies as drivers of the real price of oil. Using a method that allows us to identify demand from different groups of countries across the world, we find that demand [...]

CO2 Emission and Firm Heterogeneity: A Study of Metals & Metal based Industries in India

by Narayanan K. and  Santosh Kumar Sahu MPRA Paper No 38061 (Dec 2012) Industrial energy efficiency has emerged as one of the key issues in India. The increasing demand for energy that leads to growing challenge of climate change has resulted major issues. It is obvious that high-energy intensity leads to high carbon intensity of the [...]

Does sharecropping affect productivity and long-term investment ? evidence from West Bengal’s tenancy reforms

by Klaus Deininger, Songqing Jin and Vandana Yadav World Bank Policy Research Working Paper 6293 (Dec 2012) Although transfer of agricultural land ownership through land reform had positive impacts on productivity, investment, and political empowerment in many cases, institutional arrangements in West Bengal — which made tenancy heritable and imposed a prohibition on subleasing — [...]

The Hidden Costs of Power: Health Effects of Coal Electricity Generation in India

by Maureen Cropper and Kabir Malik India relies on coal to supply 70 percent of its electricity and is likely to continue this dependence for many years to come. Almost 300 million Indians are without access to electricity, and the existing supply falls 10 percent short of the demand during peak hours. Determined to maintain [...]

The Social Side of Biofuels in Brazil, India and Indonesia

Author(s): Mairon Bastos Lima. [July 2012] The move away from fossil fuels towards cleaner fuels such as biofuels has been seen by some countries as an opportunity to both increase energy self-reliance and create an additional market for agriculture. However, the social implications remain understudied. This think piece, based on extensive field work in Brazil, India [...]

Green rider for GDP

by Richard Mahapatra/Jun 30, 2012 After using gross domestic product, or GDP, as the universal measurement of economy for six decades, the world has begun looking beyond this gold standard for measuring a country’s economy. On May 25, 10 African countries agreed to incorporate their natural capital, or value of their natural resources, into their [...]

Are embankments a good flood-­‐control strategy? A case study of the Kosi river

by E. Somanathan BREAD Working Paper No. 352 Should embankments be used to control floods? This is a question of great importance in the eastern Gangetic plain where embankment breaches cause severe flood damage every year, and huge damages due to major breaches every few years. Critics of the embankment policy have called for a [...]

STRUCTURAL INFIRMITIES IN INDIA’S PLANTATION SECTOR: Natural Rubber and Spices

Report Prepared for the Ministry of Commerce and IndustryGovernment of India by K. J. Joseph and P. S. George. National Research Programme on Plantation Development(NRPPD), Centre for Development Studies. 2011 Plantation sector is not just a foreign exchange earner but a Key Sector in India s strategy to achieve inclusive growth. However, it is suffering from many structural infirmities that adversely affect the [...]

Himalayan Glaciers: Climate Change, Water Resources, and Water Security

Committee on Himalayan Glaciers, Hydrology, Climate Change, and Implications for Water Security; Board on Atmospheric Studies and Climate; Division on Earth and Life Studies; National Research Council, USA [2012] Scientific evidence shows that most glaciers in South Asia’s Hindu Kush Himalayan region are retreating, but the consequences for the region’s water supply are unclear, this [...]

The reality of corporate social responsibility: case studies on the impact of CSR on workers in China, South Korea, India and Indonesia

Asia Monitor Resource Centre [2012] As Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has been practiced in many different ways, this book tries to present Asian context by investigating how CSR activities has been impacting people on the ground. The book provides case studies from China, South Korea, India and Indonesia, disclosing the ugly face of CSR. The [...]

The European Union Regulation on IUU Fishing:Impact on Developing Countries

by K M Shajahan Economic and Political Weekly, August 11, 2012 The European Union Council Regulation on illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing states that, exports of fish and fishery products from those countries which do not comply with its articles would be rejected by the the major seafood market for developing countries, this regulation is [...]

Role of Policy and Institutions in Local Adaptation to Climate Change

Case studies on responses to too much and too little water in the Hindu Kush Himalayas Editors: Neera Shrestha Pradhan (ICIMOD), Vijay R. Khadgi (ICIMOD), Lisa Schipper (SEI), Nanki Kaur (IIED), Tighe Geoghegan (IIED) [2012] CONTENTS Foreword Acknowledgements Acronyms and Abbreviations Executive Summary Part 1 – Synthesis 1 Introduction 3 Methodology 6 Conceptual Framework for Adaptation Planning 8 Enhancing Institutional [...]

A structural VAR analysis of renewable energy consumption, real GDP and CO2 emissions: Evidence from India

Aviral Kumar Tiwari Economics Bulletin, Vol. 31 no.2 pp. 1793-1806. This study has attempted to analyze the dynamics of renewable energy consumption, economic growth, and CO2 emissions. For the analysis, we used structural VAR approach. Results of unit root tests show that all variables are non-stationary at their level form and stationary in first difference form and [...]

Differences in Resource Allocation under Alternative Tenurial Contracts and its Explanations: Evidence from Rural West Bengal, India

Arindam Laha and Pravat Kumar Kuri Trends in Agricultural Economics Volume 5, Number 1, 13-22, 2012 In the light of the debate on the differences in resource allocation under alternative tenurial contracts, an attempt has been made in the paper to measure the level of allocative efficiency across alternative tenurial contracts in West Bengal agriculture by [...]

Mangrove Eco-system and their Multifunctionalities: An Analysis of the Provision of Economic and Environmental Livelihoods to the Fishermen Communities in the South-East Coast of India

T. Sathya and C. Sekar Trends in Agricultural Economics Volume 5, Number 2, 31-47, 2012 A study was conducted to analyze the direct and indirect benefits of Pitchavaram Mangrove Forests (PMF)in the south east coast region of Tamil Nadu, India, where the concentration of mangrove biosphere is substantial. For the study,30 numbers each of i. Fishermen [...]

Climate Change and Fisheries: Perspectives from Small-scale Fishing Communities in India on Measures to Protect Life and Livelihood

Venkatesh Salagrama SAMUDRA Monograph May-2012 Through consultations with key fisheries-based stakeholders in four States of India, this study attempts to assess perceptions of fishing communities about the impact of climate change on their lives and livelihoods. It also evaluates the traditional knowledge, institutions and practices of fishing communities that are relevant to climate-change preparedness. The [...]

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