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India’s Inland Water Transport Project – Tackling Sediment Issues in the Brahmaputra

by Dr Arnab Das15 July 202026 July 2020 4 min read

The Inland Water Transport (IWT) project is highly sensitive to siltation as it severely impacts the navigability of waterways.

EnvironmentScience

What’s Wrong with The World: From a Conservationist’s Diary – Part 2

by Rushikesh Chavan12 July 202017 July 2020 4 min read

We must stop putting people, corporations, and governments in ‘good’ and ‘bad’ boxes.

EnvironmentScience

What’s Wrong with The World: From a Conservationist’s Diary – Part 1

by Rushikesh Chavan7 July 202012 July 2020 5 min read

So, what is really wrong with the world? Why are we destroying ecosystems and, in effect, our very existence?

EnvironmentScience

We Must Rethink the Nature-Human Relationship in a Post-Covid-19 World

by Suchitra Pandey17 June 202020 June 2020 4 min read

Seeing the increase in the number of poaching incidences during lockdown, it is clear that we have learned nothing from the pandemic.

EnvironmentScience

How the COVID-19 fight could be a blueprint for successful Climate Change action

by Kalyani Raj24 May 20209 June 2020 5 min read

For while COVID-19 and climate change are separate issues, both hit the most vulnerable and marginalized sections of society the hardest, consequently provoking the need for systemic and behavioural changes and calling for cohesive, collective, cross-border action.

Society

Virtual Litigation and E-filing: the future of the Indian Judiciary? – Part I

by Adv. Aarti Sathe, Anushka Mehta & Asawari Kadam1 May 202012 June 2020 5 min read

The judiciary had already set out towards hearings on video conferences and taping of records since 2004 but not gotten there completely; the current pandemic is simply moving it forward.

EnvironmentScience

Can CoronaVirus Crisis be converted to an Opportunity for Rejuvenating Climate Action?

by Prof. Amitav Mallik29 April 20209 June 2020 4 min read

Can the Covid-19 crisis offer a unique opportunity to redesign the economy, break away from insatiable consumption and un-sustainable GDP growth incurred at the cost of a basic, life-supporting, stable environment?

EnvironmentScience

Preventing the Spread of Diseases from Vertebrate Animals to Humans – A Perspective from Environmental Law – Part II

by Arnab Basu19 April 202013 June 2020 4 min read

These laws generally lack any institutional mechanism, as these are internationally prescribed but supposed to be practiced domestically. Enforcement and adoption of these laws are result of consensus among participatory nations.

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Can We Flatten the Climate Change Curve: Lessons from the Pandemic Playbook?

by Manishankar Prasad13 April 202013 June 2020 5 min read

Climate Change is intensely political as a problem of stocks and flows. The global north while increasing their standard of living since the industrial revolution now expects the global south to ‘not pollute’, as their quality of life is gets affected due to climate change.

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Preventing the spread of diseases from vertebrate animals to humans – A perspective from Environmental Law – Part I

by Arnab Basu9 April 202013 June 2020 4 min read

Zoonosis may be bacterial, viral, or parasitic, or may involve unconventional agents. As well as being a public health problem, many of the major zoonotic diseases prevent the efficient production of food of animal origin and create obstacles to international trade in animal products.