Tag: Sustainable Development
Supreme Court’s Forestland Ruling: What Lessons can Himachal Pradesh Learn from...
Gurinder KaurOn February 15, 2021, a three-judge green bench headed by Chief Justice of India S A Bobde allowed the Himachal Pradesh government to...
Climate Emergency, Disasters and Resilience: Inclusive Business Continuity Management
Simi Mehta, Amita BhaduriThe biggest global challenge of the 21st century is the climate emergency. News headlines are flooded with victims of disasters, often...
Interlinkages of Rivers (ILR) – A Flawed Concept
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Paavani Pegatraju"Making peace with nature is the defining task of the 21st century. It must be the top, top priority...
Water Governance: Challenges and the Way Forward
Simi MehtaWater Governance poses one of the biggest challenges in modern-day India that looks out for definitive solutions. How this scare water resource is...
Environment and Budget 2021: Business as Usual?
Simi Mehta, Amita Bhaduri, Anshula Mehta, Nikhil Jacob, Manoswini SarkarThe Union Budget 2021 is touted to be the mother of all budgets since it...
Thinking Ecologically About Development in India’s Cities
Soumyadip Chattopadhyay, Arjun Kumar, Manoswini Sarkar"Poorly managed urban growth and development in a rapidly urbanizing India has exacerbated inequalities, exclusion, and vulnerabilities, especially among...
Ecosystem Restoration through Ecosystem Based Adaptation Approach
Arvind KumarCommunities have been adapting to climate variability for centuries, but today their coping mechanisms are being outpaced by the fast-changing climate. In response...
Perspectives on Climate Change, Society and Gender in India
Simi Mehta, Amita BhaduriClimate change vulnerability is a multi-layered and multi-faceted phenomenon. “It’s a justice issue determined by both biophysical and socio-economic factors. It needs...
Sustainable Mobility Amid COVID-19 Pandemic: Potential Risks and Opportunities
Deepty JainThe majority of the travel demand in the Indian cities is met by the non-motorized and public transport systems, i.e., low carbon modes...
What India needs for effective Waste Management during and post coronavirus...
Simi Mehta, Amita BhaduriThe world has changed a lot in terms of education, perspectives, and technology. But there are some parts of the globe...
