18 Mar 2021 | Jagdish Krishnaswamy
The recent landslide in February on a glacier in Uttarakhand’s Chamoli and subsequent floods and toll of human life and property has drawn our attention once again to the irony…
10 Feb 2021 | Abi T. Vanak and Mridula Mary Paul
As India goes into emergency mode to tackle the potentially catastrophic impacts of the novel coronavirus (COVID-19), the ‘Kerala model’ is being widely cited as an example to…
10 Feb 2021 | Vikram Aditya and G. Ravikanth
The grasslands of India form a savanna: a semi-arid grassland system that stretches across large swathes of India, including Gujarat, Maharashtra, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka.…
04 Nov 2021 | Nandan Nawn
Biodiversity losses lead to disruptions in climatic attributes. The resulting impacts — including those on economic systems — are gaining visibility across geographical spaces. ‘…
04 Nov 2021 | K Bawa, A Sengupta, V Chavan, R Chellam, R. Ganesan, J Krishnaswamy, V B Mathur, N Nawn, S B Olsson, N Pandit, S Quader, P Rajagopal, U Ramakrishnan, G Ravikanth, M Sankaran, D Shankar, R Seidler, R U Shaanker, A T Vanak
Highly populated tropical countries face tremendous pressures in reconciling the needs for improved economic security and the protection of declining biodiversity. India is no…
04 Nov 2021 | N Nawn, S Vasan and K Bawa
“Sustainable development” and “sustainability” may be among the most used phrases across discourses, both mainstream and radical, on “development.” As in any conceptualisation,…
04 Nov 2021 | Bawa, N Nawn, R Chellam, J Krishnaswamy, V Mathur, S B Olsson, N Pandit, P Rajagopal, M Sankaran, R U Shaanker, D Shankar, U Ramakrishnan, A T Vanak, and S Quader
Contemporary losses of biodiversity, sometimes referred to as the sixth mass extinction, continue to mount. A recent assessment by the Intergovernmental Science-Policy Platform on…
31 Jan 2022 | Abi T. Vanak and M. D. Madhusudan
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At the recently concluded COP26 in Glasgow, India proclaimed on the global stage that by 2030, it would elevate its renewable power capacity to 500 GW from 150 GW…
31 Jan 2022 | Nandan Nawn
nawnsense.medium.com -
Nature supports all economic activities. It does not matter if it’s a good or a service, produced in the formal or the non-formal parts of the economic…
03 Mar 2021 | Kamaljit Bawa, Nandan Nawn,Ravi Chellam, Jagdish Krishnaswamy, Vinod Mathur
India and other nations need new frameworks that integrate science with policies to enhance human well-being, restore and conserve nature, and build capacity.
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