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Triumph of the commons: Helping the world to share
Seven billion people into one planet won't go, unless we learn to harness our better natures, says social psychologist Mark van Vugt.
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- Aug 2009
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- New Scientist Issue: 2722 pp: 40-43
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The logic of community participation: Experimental evidence from West Bengal
Social capital has been defined as a set of informal norms that promotes cooperation among the members of the community.
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- May 2009
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- Economic and Political Weekly Vol: 44 Issue: 20 pp: 51-57
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Adaptive management response of a rural fishery community due to changes in the hydrological regime of a tropical coastal lagoon
In the coastal community of Chabihau, Yucatan, Mexico, hurricanes Gilbert (1988) and Isidore (2002) opened breaches in the coastal dune. The government modified these breaches with a floodgate, channels, and bridges, allowing tidal influx that has transformed the swamp ecosystem into a coastal lagoon.
- Date:
- Apr 2009
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- Journal of Human Ecology Vol: 26 Issue: 1 pp: 9-18
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- Opinion
Caution: pastures ahead
Village commons might suffer if forest rights act is not implemented well in Himachal Pradesh The Himachal Pradesh government has asked forest dwellers in the state to put forward their claims to forest rights. But it is being cautious in implementing the Scheduled Tribes and Other Traditional Forest Dwellers (Recognition of Forest Rights) Act, 2006, or fra.
- Date:
- 30/01/2009
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- Down to Earth
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Watershed management for fuel wood and fodder security in a traditional agroforestry system of arid western Rajasthan
The severity of fuel wood and fodder depletion has been recognized through the hot arid tracts of India, since 70% of rural folk are dependent on them. The intensive study done on Baordi - Bambore watershed indicated that the state of affairs are not the same, as they appear. In normal rainfall situation, fodder availability appears to be more than required.
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- Jan 2009
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- Journal of Tropical Forestry Vol: 25 Issue: 1 pp: 1-10
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Distributional inequality and groundwater depletion: An analysis across major states in India
The famous work of Hardin on 'The Tragedy of the Commons' explains why the Common Pool Resources (CPR) or Open Access Resources are over-exploited, degraded or depleted.
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- Jan 2009
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- Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol: 64 Issue: 1 pp: 89-107
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Environmental degradation and measures for its mitigation with special reference to India's agricultural sector
The term, 'environment', has many connotations. In this paper, by 'environment' we mean the natural environment, which encompasses all the biotic and abiotic elements that form our surroundings, that is, the air, the land, the water, the forests, the seas.
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- Jan 2009
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- Indian Journal of Agricultural Economics Vol: 64 Issue: 1 pp: 40-61
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The place of nature in economic development
Official development economics reflects the rest of the discipline, in that it too neglects nature's place in economic development. The neglect looks odd to ecologists, who are trained to study the slow processes that influence long-term development possibilities. A seemingly natural retort to ecologists is that people come first and that, after all, current poverty should matter most.
- Date:
- Dec 2008
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- SANDEE
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Swelling displacement and elusive rehabilitation: Deficits in policy interventions
In the recent past, two major policy interventions have been made to resettle and rehabilitate persons displaced as a result of acquisition of land for development projects. While the government of Orissa brought out its policy in 2006, the Central Government notified a new policy in 2007.
- Date:
- Dec 2008
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- Social Change Vol: 38 Issue: 4 pp: 705-732
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Fuelling poverty?: an agro-fuel guideline for India
This agrofuel watch guideline is supposed to be applied for monitoring of the status of the right to food in the context of expansions of agro-fuel at community level. The study includes Case studies of Violations of Right to Food due to Agro-fuel Cultivation in India.
- Date:
- Nov 2008
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- Heinrich Boll Foundation
