India’s environment: Balancing development and conservation
LSE’s Ramachandra Guha argues that India’s environmental situation has sharply deteriorated with economic liberalisation, threatening local ecologies and the very basis of national survival. This...
View ArticleThe paradox of the Ganges
Mikaela Rambali asks how the Ganges is simultaneously venerated and disastrously neglected across India. Early one morning in Kerala, I booked a yoga session with an amazing view of the backwaters....
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Photoblog: Damming the Narmada – submerging land, livelihoods and cultures in...
On a recent trip to Madhya Pradesh and Maharashtra, Matt Birkinshaw learnt about the effects that large dam projects on the Narmada River are having on the local community and environment. I recently...
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Gujarat’s troubling environmental record
Gautam Appa examines Gujarat’s environmental record and finds little interest at the state government level in implementing protection measures both before and during Narendra Modi’s tenure as Chief...
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India at a crossroads: Growth or green growth?
On 14 October, Jairam Ramesh, Chair of the Future Earth Engagement Committee and former Minister of State for Environment and Forests, visited LSE to discuss the sustainable green growth challenge in...
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“Bulge hunger” in a developing country: Understanding escalating corruption...
As a developing country experiences growth, a sense of entitlement and expectations of reward also grow among resource management groups. Khurshed Alam terms this “bulge hunger” and writes that – if...
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Diwali: A smog-mare for the Indian capital
Delhi has now overtaken Beijing as the most polluted city in the world and over Diwali the air quality deteriorated to new lows. In this article, Payal Dey discusses how serious the problem has become,...
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“Cities have gained water at the expense of the countryside in India” – Amita...
At the LSE India Summit 2017 Amita Baviskar moderated the water security panel. After the session, Rebecca Bowers spoke to her about her research on access to water and the associated hierarchies that...
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Law alone can’t protect our rivers and their ‘rights’
After river Whanganui in New Zealand and Atrato in Colombia were declared as “living persons”, the Uttarakhand High Court accorded the Yamuna and Ganga the same status but for all of 109 days. Madhuri...
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Book Review: Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India by Assa Doron and...
In Waste of a Nation: Garbage and Growth in India, authors Assa Doron and Robin Jeffrey offer a compendious account of waste in India, exploring its implication in questions of economic growth, public...
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