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Climate Related Coastal Zone Management
The intensity of use of coastal areas is growing under current developmental trends. The protection of coastal zones is vital as it supports more than hundred million people of our nation. In the ligh...
Business Opportunities Out of Climate Change
Climate change will bring about slow but a definite modification in the way the world thinks with myriad new business opportunities offering to rebuild production, consumption and expenditure patterns...
Kosi Floods: Time for Retropection
A proper integration of fluvial geomorphology and river engineering is needed to understand the flooding behaviour of rivers, especially those draining north Bihar plains.
Flood Hazard-A GIS Based Approach
Flood Hazard Mapping is an appropriate land use planning tool for flood prone areas as it creates easily read, rapidly accessible mechanisms which facilitate planners identify risk areas and prioritis...
The Gharial of Chambal a trial for Conservation
In the winter of 2007 and 2008, more than a hundred sub adult and adult gharial mysteriously succumbed in the Chambal River, unable to haul themselves out on the sand banks as temperatures fell below...
The Monsoon 2008
The term monsoon is customarily used in the South Asian context to refer to a period of widespread rains during June - September, otherwise known as the ‘Indian summer monsoon’. The common reference t...
Corridors of Concrete and elephants of Chandaka
Orissa has an estimated 1,800 elephants, but its shrinking habitat forces the animal to forage into humanscape often coming in conflict with man. At least 151 elephants were poached in the State betwe...
Community Forests
Joint Forest Management (JFM), the cornerstone of forest management in India since 1990, is facing new challenges to provide an innovative approach coupled with timely fund dissemination for effective...
Tidal Predictions: Geodetic and Research Branch Survey of India
The Geodetic and Research Branch of Survey of India has a long history of over 130 years, since 1877, of maintaining tidal data generated from the tide gauge network along the Indian coast and islands...
Changing Patterns of Consumption 2008
The village of Isapur Sarki, home to 140 Hindu families, boasts of painted pucca houses and brick laid roads – a veritable picture of a prosperous Indian village. About 50 per cent of the farmers have...