Springs Season
...
Myriad Challenges of the Coasts of India
Monitoring from space, aerial and in situ platforms in coastal regions will help develop models for interactions between ecological and anthropogenic processes, helping sustainable management of coast...
Our Fragile Coasts: Scientific Approaches and Solutions
The Indian coasts hold diverse geomorphological features—mudflats, rocky shores, cliffs, sandy beaches and deltaic reaches that shelter unique ecosystems. However, significant sections of the coastlin...
Need of Flood Warning System for Coastal Metropolis
Integrated Flood Warning System (IFLOWS) is an integrated GIS-based decision support system developed for Chennai and Mumbai that provides flood inundation scenarios and helps state governments to put...
IMPACT ARTICLES
Why can’t CFLs come cheap?
Drift through any prominent do’s of the city and pose a few CFL questions to the elite and environment conscious. Watch the proud smile spreading across their faces claiming they use only compact fluo...
Trailblazer of Sustainable Development
Humans record a distinct pattern of resource usage at various stages of development. Seen in the context of a raging debate on use and abuse of natural resources, this assumes importance.
Principles of Sustainable Development
Perpetuation of disparities, a worsening of poverty, hunger, ill health and illiteracy and the continuing deterioration of the ecosystem on which we depend for our well-being is what shackles our deve...
More from environment
Why can’t CFLs come cheap?
Drift through any prominent do’s of the city and pose a few CFL questions to the elite and environment conscious. Watch the proud smile spreading across their faces claiming they use only compact fluorescent lights as it can save the world from greenhouse gas emissions. The link no doubt is well established and the rich and famous have found a new expensive toy to show off how aware and concerned...
Trailblazer of Sustainable Development
Humans record a distinct pattern of resource usage at various stages of development. Seen in the context of a raging debate on use and abuse of natural resources, this assumes importance.
