Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in KeralaConcept Publishing Company, 2006 - 350 Seiten This book takes stock of Kerala's environmental decline as well as people's response towards possible alternatives that meet the basic criteria for sustainability. |
Inhalt
Employing | 3 |
The World Environmental Crisis | 5 |
Keralas Geographical Setting and Its Environmental | 28 |
in Millimeters by District | 38 |
Concentration Index for Selected Crops in Kerala 1991 | 54 |
Macro and Micro Ecological Zones | 59 |
Land Use Changes | 79 |
Changes in Landscape Ecology | 108 |
Introduction to Part II | 183 |
State Level Initiatives for Environmental | 204 |
The Kerala Peoples Campaign for the Ninth Plan of | 229 |
The Potential of Local Democracy | 243 |
Local Democracy | 284 |
Political Structures for Sustainability | 299 |
| 339 | |
Why the Environment is Changing | 152 |
Häufige Begriffe und Wortgruppen
activities agricultural Alappuzha Alappuzha district arecanut average backwaters biodiversity biomass canal catchment cent Centre CESS chapter Chattopadhyay coastal coconut cover Cultivarea cultivation decentralised decline deforestation density drainage ecological ecosystem environment environmental Ernakulam erosion fertiliser fishing flood forest area global Government of Kerala groundwater growth hectares human intervention Idukki district increased India indicates irrigation Kannur Kasargod Kollam Kottayam Kozhikode Kuttanad landscape lateritic lowlands major Malappuram Mezhuveli midland monsoon Muthanga natural paddy fields Palakkad panchayat patterns People's Campaign Plachimada planning plants pollution ponds population population density problems production programme rainfall reservoirs resource base Resource Mapping ridges river rubber plantations runoff rural Sasthamkotta Lake seasonal sediment settlements Silent Valley slopes soil sq km sustainable development Tamil Nadu tapioca Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram district Thrissur tree crops tribal tropical types urban vegetation Vembanad lake villages water table watershed Wayanad Wayanad district Western Ghats wetlands Wildlife Sanctuary zone