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PB Subject-wise Research Material_I (21)
I. Subject-wise Research Material, 1930-2017
I. Environment, 1978-2013
January 1982
a) Do forests control climate? by V.M. Meher-Homji b) Accountability in the Greenhouse by Allen L. Hammond, Eric Rodenburg, & William Moomaw c) ‘Managing the Global House: Redefining Economics in a Greenhouse World’ by Susan George d) Billion Dollar Misunderstanding: A Long Way to Go for Fair Environmental Negotiations by Jyoti K. Parikh e) ‘Benchmark Environmental Consulting: An Uncommon Perspective - Five Public Policy Questions for Proponents of the ISO 14000 series’ f) Greenhouse Market Mania: UN climate talks corrupted by corporate pseudo-solutions g) ‘Suffering the Science: Climate change, people, and poverty’ h) Bargaining with the Environment - A New Weapon for the South?
Forests; climate; Greenhouse; ISO 14000 series; Environment
English
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PB Subject-wise Research Material_I (22)
I. Subject-wise Research Material, 1930-2017
I. Environment, 1978-2013
November 1982
a) ‘Public, Workers, & Partition: Equity in Hazard Management’ by Kirsten Johnson b) Creative Destruction: Capitalist Development and China’s Environment by Richard Smith c) ‘Urban Water Supply: Reforming the Reformers’ by Amit Bhaduri & Arvind Kejriwal d) Public-public partnerships (PUPs) in water e) ‘Right to Water: Some Theoretical Issues’ by Taposik Banerjee f) Traditional Knowledge Systems: Culture, Ecology, and Ways of Knowing by D.P. Agrawal. Includes cover letter from author to Praful Bidwai g) ‘Tourism, Globalization and the Politics of The Environmental Agenda’ by Anita Pleumarom
Hazard Management; Urban Water Supply; Right to Water; Culture; Ecology; Tourism; Globalization
English
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PB Subject-wise Research Material_I (23)
I. Subject-wise Research Material, 1930-2017
I. Environment, 1978-2013
January 1988
a) ‘Paani’ by Vasant Palshikar b) Natural Bounty and Artificial Scarcity: Population and India’s Water Resources by Ravi Chopra & Debashish Sen c) ‘International Fresh Water Resources: Source of New Conflicts’ by Peter Wallensteen & Ashok Swain d) ‘The Ganga Waters Issue: An Approach to a Resolution’ by Ramaswamy R. Iyer e) Fire & Water: An Examination of the Technologies, Institutions, and Social Issues in Arms Control and Transboundary Water-Resources Agreements by Elizabeth L. Chalecki, Peter H. Gleick, Kelli L. Larson, Arian L. Pregenzer, & Aaron T. Wolf f) ‘Habitat, Earthquake and Reconstruction’ by M.R. Agnihotri, Arvind Krishnan, Mandeep Singh, Suneet Mahindru, Henri Fanthome, & Jitender Yadav g) ‘Religious Heritage in the Himalayas, Mapping and Risk Assessment (E1)’ by Munish Pandit, Suneet Mahindru, Students, & M.R. Agnihotri
Natural Bounty; Artificial Scarcity; Fresh Water Resources; Ganga Waters Issue; Arms Control; Transboundary Water-Resources Agreements; Habitat; Earthquake
English & Marathi
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PB Subject-wise Research Material_I (24)
I. Subject-wise Research Material, 1930-2017
I. Environment, 1978-2013
25 September 1992
a) Must we have high dams in the geodynamically active Himalayan domain? by K.S. Valdiya b) The Trouble with Dams by Robert S. Devine c) ‘The Basel Ban: A Triumph over Business-As-Usual’ by Jim Puckett d) Large Dams: The Beginning of the End? by Shripad Dharmadhikary e) Dams on the Rocks: The Flawed Economics of Large Hydroelectric Dams f) Missing the Point of Development Talk: Reflections for Activists
Dams; Himalayan domain; Hydroelectric Dams
English
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PB Subject-wise Research Material_I (25)
I. Subject-wise Research Material, 1930-2017
I. Environment, 1978-2013
March 2003
Corporate Europe Observatory - Water Justice Info Briefs: i) Brief 1 - ‘European Water TNCs: Towards Global Domination?’ ii) Brief 2 - ‘World Water Forum - Diluting Dissent?’ iii) Brief 3 - ‘WTO and Water: the EU’s Crusade for Corporate Expansion’ iv) Brief 4 - ‘Alternatives to Privatisation: The Power of Participation’ v) Brief 5 - ‘Anti-privatisation Wave Sinks Corporate Lobby Group’
Water Justice; European Water TNCs; WTO; Privatisation
English
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