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• Non-timber forest products certification in India: opportunities and challenges

  Forest certification has emerged as a marketing tool for linking the good forest management practices with the environmentally conscious consumers. Its genesis can be attributed to the society’s concern

  • 01/06/2013

  • Environment
  • • Minor Forest Produce
    • India
    • Forest Policy
    • Forest Management
    • Forest Act 1980

• Ecosystem services: How people benefit from nature

  What do the blue jeans you wear, the hamburger you have for lunch, and the sheet you make your bed with have in common? They all take copious amounts of water to produce. One pair of blue jeans takes 2,900 gallons or about 78 bathtubs of water. Even your morning cup of coffee takes 37 gallons (about one bathtub) of water

  • 01/11/2010

  • Environment
  • • Ecosystem Services
    • Environment
    • Sustainable Development
    • Agricultural Machines

• Clearing the air: How Delhi broke the logjam on air quality reforms

  Role of the Supreme Court in Delhi

  • 01/04/2004

  • Environment
  • • Air Pollution
    • Air Pollution Control
    • Vehicular Pollution
    • Environment Pollution Control Authority (EPCA)
    • CNG
    • Public Transport
    • Supreme Court
    • Delhi
    • Ruth Greenspan Bell
    • Kuldeep Mathur
    • Urvashi Narain & et al
    • Environment