Indian perspective with reference to the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand
The direct democracy at village level: Obstacles and possibilities Presentation made at the “The 2010 Global Forum on Modern Direct Democracy” Summit at San Francisco,…
FOREWORD TO THE BOOK — “THE RULING STICK: UTTARAKHAND PANCHAYATI VAN NIYAMAVALI, 2005 (PANCHAYAT FOREST RULES, 2005)” UNDER THE SUB-HEADING, GOVERNMENT’S LAWS AND REGULATION VERSUS PEOPLE’S RIGHTS
The Van Panchayat (village forest council) mechanism has been in practice in the Central Himalayan Region of India (now state of Uttarakhand) for over seventy…
MELTING HIMALAYAN GLACIERS
OVERVIEW: The Copenhagen Accord set the aim of limiting warming to two degrees Celsius (3.6 degrees Fahrenheit), but did not set a year by which…
Nationwide farmers’ movement is need of the hour
Jardhari along with several other activists from Jardhargaon and nearby areas in Tehri district of Uttarakhand formed Beej Bachao Andolan (Save the Seeds Movement) in…
The National Dialogue on CIVIL SOCIETY ORGANISATIONS’ PARTICIPATION IN CLIMATE CHANGE
India Peace Centre, Nagpur, 15-16 November 2009 Presentation CLIMATE CHANGE: MELTING GLACIERS AND DRYING RIVERS IN HIMALAYA By Suresh Nautiyal Before talking about the…
Haunting Beauty of the Ghats
The charm of the ecological unit called Sahyadri is there! The more you visit Sahyadri or the Western Ghats the more you realise how little…
CLIMATE CHANGE: MELTING GLACIERS AND DRYING RIVERS IN HIMALAYA
Before talking about the melting glaciers and drying rivers due to climate change in the Pan-Himalayan Region, it is important to take note of the…
Scars of development
This monsoon, as we moved closer to Gangotari from the holy town of Uttarkashi, the hum of demon-sized machines, bulldozing sounds of construction vehicles, and…
Reckless consumption making the world filthy
ACCORDING to a recent report by the US and European environmental groups, the rapidly industrialising India and China have claimed four of the top ten…
No equity, if sustainability threatened
TRANSLATING grave environmental issues into ecological democracy movement is an enormous task before us all in the era of forced globalisation and chosen globalised warming….