Community-led Alternatives to Water Management: India Case Study

human development, water, sanitation

Redressing Ecological Poverty Through Participatory Democracy: Case Studies from India

or the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people and exacerbated resource degradation. This paper shows the potential to reverse these trends when local people gain control over natural resources and manage them through systems of participatory democracy. Four case studies from semi-arid, hilly regions of India illustrate how democratic control of natural assets can lay the basis for ecological restoration and sustainable livelihoods.

Consequences of Inequality for Sustainability

In this article, I argue that sustainable development is not possible without affordable and inclusive growth. Inequality and unsustainability are linked and unless the world is able to look for environmental solutions that are affordable and can meet the needs of all, these will not work

How Green is Green?

What is behind the concept of a Green Economy, advanced at the Rio-2012 conference? The case of protection and use of forests in India exemplifies the most important challenges: Green cannot be green without equity and justice

Independent Evaluation of the Partnership Committees of the CGIAR : Final Report

This study was undertaken as part of the CGIAR reform program, part of which was aimed at streamlining System governance. The CGIAR Annual General Meeting 2002 agreed to commission an independent, external review of both the Non Governmental Organization Committee (NGOC) and the Private Sector Committee (PSC). The terms of reference for the study asks two questions: 1) how successful have the Committees been in achieving their mission? and 2) are there alternative ways in which the CGIAR could achieve the Committees' mission more efficiently? The evaluation recognized that the two committee experiment in partnerships was generally disappointing to all parties but it nevertheless wishes to underscore the importance of persevering with the experiment. The report underlines the importance for strong relationships between the CGIAR system and international Civil Society as well as the relationship between the CGIAR system and the international private sector. The report was discussed at the 6th Executive Council Meeting of the CGIAR, in May 2004, Montpellier, France. It was also discussed at the Stakeholders Meeting at AGM2004

Redressing Ecological Poverty Through Participatory Democracy: Case Studies from India

For the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people and exacerbated resource degradation. This paper shows the potential to reverse these trends when local people gain control over natural resources and manage them through systems of participatory democracy. Four case studies from semi-arid, hilly regions of India illustrate how democratic control of natural assets can lay the basis for ecological restoration and sustainable livelihoods

Redressing Ecological Poverty Through Participatory Democracy: Case Studies from India

Case Studies from India Abstract: For the rural poor – who depend above all the land for their survival – a central development challenge is to sustain a base of natural capital that can support a robust local economy. In India, government mismanagement of forests, grazing lands, and water resources has often alienated rural people and exacerbated resource degradation. This paper shows the potential to reverse these trends when local people gain control over natural resources and manage them through systems of participatory democracy. Four case studies from semi-arid, hilly regions of India illustrate how democratic control of natural assets can lay the basis for ecological restoration and In many parts of the developing world, poverty is not so much about a lack of money but about a lack of natural resources. The majority of people live off the land, and prosperity means plenty of water, crops, animals, and timber. For the rural poor, improving the gross nature product is far more important than increasing the gross national product (Agarwal 1985). The challeng

Erratum to: Particle density and transition temperature of weakly interacting quantum gases

An expression for single particle density of weakly interacting trapped quantum gases has been obtained for Fermi gas at all temperatures and for Bose gas above the transition temperature (Tc). This expression has been used to study the effect of interaction on density of harmonically trapped Bose gas. It is found that interaction has a large effect on the density at centre of the trap as observed experimentally. The same expression for density is also used to obtain the transition temperature of homogeneous Bose gas. Experimental results for Tc has been re-analysed on the basis of perturbative and non-perturbative theories. It is found that both the theories fit experimental data equally well in low-density regimes