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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Beyond food versus fuel
<p>The most controversial aspect of biofuels is the perceived competition for farmland. Will advances in biofuels and agriculture send this trade-off speeding towards the history books?</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352_supp/full/474S06a.html</p>
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A new hope for Africa
<p>Bioenergy could help bring food security to the world's poorest continent, say Lee R. Lynd and Jeremy Woods.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352_supp/full/474S020a.html</p>
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Fuelling politics
<p>Biofuels have been hailed as key to reducing our fossil-fuel dependence, yet their environmental and social impacts remain uncertain. A complex task lies ahead for policy makers.</p> <p>http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v474/n7352_supp/full/474S022a.html</p>
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Small temperature beneļ¬ts provided by realistic afforestation efforts
Afforestation, the conversion of croplands or marginal lands into forests, results in the sequestration of carbon. As a result, afforestation is considered one of the key climate-change mitigation strategies
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Chawla committee wants inventory of govt land
New Delhi In what could ease availability of land for industrial projects, a high-level government panel has recommended that all land held by the Centre should be inventoried with location mapping so that unused land could be easily identified and put up for sale to corporates under a public-private-partnership (PPP) model.
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The Economics of Ecosystem Services and Biodiversity: An International Assessment
<p>The Economics of Ecosystems and Biodiversity reports were born out of an initiative in 2007 to produce an analysis of the economics of biodiversity loss parallel to that of existing analysis of climate change. The reports do not preach to the committed environmentalist who already values nature.
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Elucidation of the 4th national report submitted to UNCCD Secretariat 2010
<p><span id="itro1">This new report released by the Ministry of Environment and Forests provides a holistic overview capturing comprehensively India's policies and programme related to desertification, land degradation & drought.</span></p>
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Biofuels and climate change mitigation: a CGE analysis incorporating land-use change
<p>The question of whether biofuels help mitigate climate change has attracted much debate in the literature. Using a global computable general equilibrium model that explicitly represents land-use change impacts due to the expansion of biofuels, this study attempts to shed some light on this question.
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W Ghats on Unesco shortlist
Pune: The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) recently shortlisted the Western Ghats for inclusion in the World Heritage list, taking this biodiversity rich area a step closer to protection from landuse change and other developmental activities. The 39 serial sites in the Unesco shortlist include four sites in Maharashtra (Sahyadri)
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Statistical confirmation of indirect land use change in the Brazilian Amazon
Expansion of global demand for soy products and biofuel poses threats to food security and the environment. One environmental impact that has raised serious concerns is loss of Amazonian forest through