The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025
<p>The Bikaner Development Authority Bill, 2025, passed by the Rajasthan Assembly, aims to establish a Bikaner Development Authority to regulate development activities in the Bikaner district. The bill
Land Use
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Centre to Announce Special Package for LWE-Affected Districts
Development and land rights are the new weapons in the government’s war against Naxals. To forge an effective response, the rural development ministry is consulting the collectors of the 60 Left-wing extremism
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Govt to strictly monitor land use changes
To ensure that the land use is not changed by the owners who have been allotted the plots on concessional rate and to keep a check on encroachments, the urban development and housing department will appoint an independent agency or conduct a third party inspection regularly.
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Economics of land degradation: the costs of action versus inaction
In recent years, prices of agricultural land have increased quickly, actually doubling and tripling in many parts of the world. This land value reassessment has been prompted by rising crop prices and
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Climate forcing and response to idealized changes in surface latent and sensible heat
Land use and land cover changes affect the partitioning of latent and sensible heat, which impacts the broader climate system. Increased latent heat flux to the atmosphere has a local cooling influence
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Resource efficiency: economics and outlook (REEO) for Asia and the Pacific
This report provides an overview of resource use patterns in Asia and the Pacific, explains why sustainable resource use and resource efficiency will become an economic and social imperative for the region,
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Contribution towards developing a roadmap for biodiversity and climate change: Indian part of East Himalaya
The report considers diversity of biological components, including wild and domesticated, social and ecological systems prevailing in the NE States of India and provides insight on hitherto underexplored
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A review of environmental issues in the context of biofuel sustainability frameworks
With the rapid growth of biofuel production and consumption and the proliferation of policy decisions supporting this expansion, concerns about the biofuel sector’s environmental and social impacts are
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EIA analysis of a coal washery project
A coal washery project called the Rajan Coal Washery with a capacity of 0.96 million tonnes per annum (MTPA) is proposed to come up at Kharsiya, Raigarh (Chhattisgarh). Raghubeer Pradhan of Ekta Parishad,
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Bamboo: can it live up to the 'green gold' hype?
It could reduce the pressure on native forests but the rapid expansion in bamboo plantations is in danger of making it the latest in a long line of tarnished 'wonder crops'
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Temperature rise in the Bharathapuzha river basin, southern India
As part of our environmental analysis of the Bharathapuzha river basin, southern India, we examined the trend of temperature in the basin for a period of 36 years (1969–2005). It shows an overall upward