Wasteland Development 
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Greening wasteland to get city carbon credits
Trapping CO2 Here Can Earn Up To Rs 25 cr
- Date:
- 29/12/2009
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- Times Of India (New Delhi)
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Nanjido - a wasteland restoration into world cup park
Nanjido, an island in Republic of South Korea, at the end of the Han River was made a landfill site in 1978. Fifteen years later, the site had to be closed due to the extensive damage caused by the pollution of soil, air, surface and underground water. In 1996, the Seoul Metropolitan Government decided to continue till 2020.
- Date:
- Dec 2009
- Source:
- Man & Development Vol: 31 Issue: 4 pp: 25-38
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Assam DFO bags National Forestry Award
DIGBOI, Nov 22 – P Sivakumar, an Indian Forest Service officer, at present working as Divisional Forest Officer of Digboi Forest Division, received the prestigious National Forestry Award, the Indira Priyadarshani Vriksha Mitra (IPVM) Award recently at a glittering function in New Delhi from Jairam Ramesh, Minister of State for Forests and Environment, Govt of India.
- Date:
- 23/11/2009
- Source:
- Assam Tribune (Guwahati)
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Goa wins award for forest cover
Goa and Kerala have jointly won the Indira Priyadarshini Vriksha Mitra (IPVM) Award 2008 for small States with a geographical area below 80,000 sq km for absolute and percentage increase in Forest & tree Cover respectively. Each of the States will be given Rs 2.50 lakh along with a scroll and a citation.
- Date:
- 20/11/2009
- Source:
- Herald (Panjim)
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Economic feasibility and socio-economic impact of biosaline agro-forestry systems in Haryana, India
This article focuses on the use of plantations to produce biomass energy products. This integration of trees with (potential) intercropping in the agricultural system is called agro-forestry. However, if the demand for renewable energy from biomass sources is to be met, large plots of agricultural land will have to be converted to agro-forestry systems.
- Date:
- Aug 2009
- Source:
- Development Alternatives Vol: 19 Issue: 8
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Biofuels could clean up Chernobyl 'badlands'
Contaminated lands, blighted by fallout from the Chernobyl nuclear disaster, could be cleaned up in a clever way: by growing biofuels. Belarus, the country affected by much of the fallout, is planning to use the crops to suck up the radioactive strontium and caesium and make the soil fit to grow food again within decades rather than hundreds of years.
- Date:
- Jun 2009
- Source:
- New Scientist Issue: 2714 pp: 14
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Study of accession source variation in morpho-physiological parameters and growth performance of Jatropha curcas Linn.
Jatropha (Jatropha curcas Linn.) is a non-edible oilseed plant with adaptability to marginal semi-arid lands and wastelands. The Indian Government is promoting jatropha to reduce dependence on the crude oil and to achieve energy independence by the year 2012, under the National Biodiesel Mission. Adaptive trials on J.
- Date:
- Jun 2009
- Source:
- Current Science Vol: 96 Issue: 12 pp: 1631-1636
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On wastelands: scorpions losing bite, owls their diet
Pune The wastelands, called padik zameen in the local parlance, on the outskirts of Pune are just pieces of degraded lands that do not fulfil their life-sustaining potential for many. But not for environmentalists who for the first time have studied and located eight species of scorpions in these lands, which are rapidly being utilised for construction and other purposes.
- Date:
- 10/06/2009
- Source:
- Indian Express (Mumbai)
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Sustainable development and bioeconomic prosperity in Africa: Bio-fuels and the South African gateway
Africa is taking the lead in creating its own biotechnology agenda, according to researchers based at South Africa's Durban University of Technology and the University of Kwazulu-Natal.
- Date:
- Jun 2009
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- African Journal of Biotechnology Vol: 8 Issue: 11 pp: 2397-2408
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Effect of tree plantation on soil properties, profile morphology and productivity index - Poplar in Yamunanagar District
The changes undergone by physico-chemical properties of soil, profile morphology and the productivity index, as a result of bringing the barren land under Poplar plantation, were evaluated in Yamuna Nagar District of Haryana, where large chunks of land have been raised as block plantation with Poplar. The soils supporting Poplar plantations were enriched with organic carbon and nutrients.
- Date:
- Jun 2009
- Source:
- Annals of Forestry Vol: 17 Issue: 1 pp: 43-70
