Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability

This theme focuses on contemporary issues related to climate change, sustainability and natural resources especially water, forest and land. Our work on these issues attempts to analyze policies and their implementation from people’s perspective, their experiences and learning. Under this thematic area we focus especially on following three sub themes.

Water, Forests and Land (Jal, Jangal, Jameen)
The Trade-off between economic growth and sustainability
Climate change and India’s response

Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability – April 2024

Research Report – Integrating Water Bodies and Aquifers for Conjunctive Water Management

Research Report – Environmental Deregulation of Forests, Biological Resources and Offshore Aquatic Biodiversity

Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability – October 2023

Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability – April 2023

Research Report- Groundwater Management in India- Madhya Pradesh State Report

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India- Andhra Pradesh and Telangana State Report

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India-Gujarat State Report

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India-Uttar Pradesh State Report

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India- Assam State Report

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India- Maharshtra State Report

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability – October 2022

Research Report- Groundwater Study Report of West Bengal

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Research Report- Groundwater Study Report of Rajasthan

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Research Report- Groundwater Management in India – Tamil Nadu State Report

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability- April 2022

Research Report- Implementation Status of Forest Rights Act in Western Odisha

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Research Paper- History of CAMPA and Infrastructure Growth Vs Compensatory Afforestation in Uttarakhand

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability- November 2021

Working Paper: वन पंचायत और वनाधिकार अधिनियम, 2006- विशेषताएं, समानताएं, भिन्नता एवं आपसी सहयोग की संभावनाएं

Working Paper: Van Panchayats – A Time Tested Institutional Mechanism that can be used for Implementing the Community Forest Rights Component of the Forest Rights Act, 2006

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Research Study- Regeneration of Common Property Resources as a basis for revival of the rural economy in the time of COVID

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Resource List- Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability

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Research Report- Using the District Mineral Foundations for Environment and Development in Mining Areas

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability- May 2021

Occasional Paper: MGNREGS Effectively- A Facilitator’s Manual

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability- October 2020

Consultation Report- Water Crisis and Sustainable Solutions

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Study Report- Development and Trade of Medicinal and Aromatic Plants (MAPs)

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Working Paper on Development and Trade of MAPs

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Policy Brief- Expanding water harvesting practices in Rajasthan, India through strategic policy advocacy

Policy Brief- Expanding water harvesting practices in Rajasthan, India through strategic policy advocacy

Research Paper- Expanding water harvesting practices in Rajasthan, India through strategic policy advocacy

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Research Paper- Regeneration of Degraded Land in India: Challenges and Possibilities

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability- April 2020

Case Study: Jal, Jangal, Jameen- Process Documentation of Rejuvenation of the Ur River, Tikamgarh, M.P.

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Policy Watch: Environment, Natural Resources and Sustainability-Nov 2019

प्राकृतिक संपदा का पुर्नजीवितिकरण – जल, जंगल और जमीन पर एक कार्यशाला

Policy Consultation Report – Methods of Water Harvesting

Regenerating Natural Capital: A Workshop on Jal, Jangal and Jameen

Policy Watch: Environment Natural Resources and Sustainability-May 2019

Working Paper: India’s Water Crisis- Challenges, Solutions and Barriers

Case Study: Implementation of the Forest Right Act, 2006 in Chhattisgarh

Green Watch, January 2019: The River Basin Management Bill, 2018: A Critical Review

Green Watch, December 2018

Ganga Sadbhavana Sandesh-1.1 (October 22, 2018)

Policy Issue Briefs – Environmental concerns in India:Plastic Pollution, Deforestation & Water Crisis (July, 2018)

Project – Strategy for Energy Conservation in India Edited by Pradeep Chaturvedi and Shalini Joshi – 1997

Paper – Climate, Climate Change Variability and Predictability By Godwin O. P. Obasi – 1996

Proceedings – Global Environmental Issues – 1995

Paper – Biosafety Regulations in Biotechnology By Ivar Virgin, Robert Frederick and S. Ramachandran – 1995

Consultation Report- Water Crisis and Sustainable Solutions

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Methods of Water Harvesting: Implication for National Strategy

Consultations – Understanding Urbanisation Oct 2018

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