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Sustainability from the Global South
Educators must share how communities in the developing world manage environmental change — a Western bias limits progress, argues Harini Nagendra.
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ACT one: Anti-dam, pro-people
"... We should also start coming up with new ideas, showing alternatives (to livelihood).”
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T.M. Krishna’s Song in Solidarity with Chennai’s Endangered Creek
For the first time ever, a matter of public concern has been rendered in Carnatic music.
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Knowing our rivers better before changing them
"We need to establish river monitoring systems, sharing data with scientists, farmers and fisherfolk to understand the dynamics of our river systems."
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What does rights of rivers mean?
This would require challenging government agencies, international “development” views and re-thinking the basic ethics of our societies.
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बुंदेलखंड की बंडई नदी का पुनरुज्जीवन – सफलता की कहानी (in Hindi)
बंदई नदी का जल अब क्षेत्र के ५० गावों का जीवन बन चूका है
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Summary of Rivers And Human Rights: We Are The River, The River Is Us?
The significance of the Uttarakhand High Court's judgment declaring that the Ganga and Yamuna rivers are separate legal entities with specific rights
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Rivers and Human Rights: We are the River, the River is Us?
What does it mean for a river to have rights? What are the implications for the rivers, those living in/on/along them, and for the rest of nature?
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Environmental & Economic Sustainability, Social Harmony and Social Transmutation : an example towards Self-rule/Swaraj
On an average, around one hundred people worked daily for around one and a half years to dig the canal through the mountain.