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The Value of Biodiversity in India’s Forests
Sanyal, Sanjeev; Gundimeda, Haripriya; Sinha, Rajiv; … - eSocialSciences - 2007
This paper attempts to value the biodiversity functions of India’s natural ecosystems and suggest a method to adjust … assess the state of biodiversity in different states in India based on the available data from secondary sources. (2 …) Estimate the value of biodiversity in Indian forest ecosystems. (3) Estimate the value of the depletion of biodiversity due to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699308
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A Changed World: A Plea for New Thinking
Iyer, Ramaswamy R. - eSocialSciences - 2006
This paper queries the rightness of the current mainstream thinking on development and technological change; expresses the apprehension that the much-feared climate change seems to have begun, and concludes with a fervent plea to all to undertake some radically new thinking. It is a concerned...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005696018
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Impact of Organic Farming on Economics of Sugarcane Cultivation in Maharashtra
G, Kshirsagar K - eSocialSciences - 2008
The primary goal of this paper is to examine the impact of organic farming on economics of sugarcane cultivation in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005528391
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Defining Human Differences in Biomedicine
Brown, Maggie - eSocialSciences - 2007
An extensive literature reflects millennia of concern over what we humans call ourselves and others. All life sciences are now grappling further with how to categorize and study the nearly infinite polymorphisms within and among “species†as awareness grows that the species concept...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009323712
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Teaching How to Bridge Neuroscience, Society, and Culture
Frazzetto, Giovanni - eSocialSciences - 2011
In most universities, sharp disciplinary and departmental divisions continue to this day and have regrettably translated into the life sciences being taught with scarce attention to their historical and epistemological foundations, or to the socio-cultural, political, and economic factors that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009358538
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Historical and Contemporary Factors Govern Global Biodiversity Patterns
Chase, Jonathan - eSocialSciences - 2012
achieving greater understanding of the underlying causes and correlates of current-day biodiversity, this analysis can also help … continue to alter patterns of biodiversity in the future. [Plos Biology Essay]. URL:[http://www.plosbiology.org/article/info%3 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010539665
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Book Review: Environmental Challenges: Posing the Problem
Pandey, Vijay Laxmi - eSocialSciences - 2007
Environmental Issues in India: A Reader Edited by Mahesh Rangarajan; Pearson Longman, New Delhi; Pp. 570, Rs 199.
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009321511
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Climate Change Conference Derailed: USA 2, Rest of the World 0
Raghunandan, D. - eSocialSciences - 2008
Despite the stark warning contained in the recently released report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), endorsed even by governments the world over, that GHG concentrations in the atmosphere are on the verge of causing irreversible, probably catastrophic, climate change that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009250502
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Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change: Fourth Assessment Report: Climate Change 2007: Synthesis Report
IPCC, Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change - eSocialSciences - 2008
Warming of the climate system is unequivocal, as is now evident from observations of increases in global average air and ocean temperatures, widespread melting of snow and ice, and rising global average sea level. Most of the observed increase in globally-averaged temperatures since the mid-20th...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005699073
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Foretelling the Mekong: Key Findings of the MRC’s Strategic Environmental Assessment on Mekong Mainstream Dams
eSocialSciences; International Rivers Network IRN - 2011
economies. As these dams threaten to irreversibly undermine the ecology of the Mekong River and will place at risk the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009002311