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Blending universal with local ethic: accountability towards nature, perfect stranger and society
(2009-12-12)
Conserving the nature which surrounds us requires dealing with out perception of natureiii. Often we do not realize that the attribution of human feelings in our discourse with non-human sentient beings mimics rules of out ...
On organizing: are 'solutions' really the problem?
(2010-03-14)
Ensuring a fair distribution of public resources has remained a concern of planners and socially conscious academists for a long time. The limitation of market forces in catering to such needs of people which at current ...
Socio-ecology of stress: why do CPR management projects fail? A case study of sheep and pasture development project in Rajasthan, India
(2010-03-14)
In a stratefied rural society, different classes of landless pastoralists or cultivator cum pastoralists are expected to have varying stakes in the protection of environment. 'Assurance' mechanism suggested by Sen and Rauge ...
Implications of WTO for Indian agriculture: the case of intellectual property rights and emerging biosafety protocol
(2009-12-12)
Globalisation in trade and investment through harmonisation of national laws, particularly dealing with intellectual property rights is one of the major impacts of GATT/WTO. The contribution of knowledge as a factor of ...
Managing common properties: some issues in institutional design
(2010-03-14)
Designing institutions that coordinate expectations of different classes of rural producers in a manner in which income disparities are reduced; common property is better managed and in fact rejuvenated (if possible); and ...
Cooperation in cooperatives: contributions of resources and skills
(2010-03-14)
The question most basic to any discussion on cooperatives is: why is it, that elites in most cooperatives neglect the task of fostering cooperation amongst different classes of poolers of resources and instead, concentrate ...
Business incubation development in India
(2010-01-16)
The paper provides the experience of setting up first incubator for grassroots innovations in the form of GIAN (Grassroots Innovation Augmentation Network) and make a case for replicating this model elsewhere in the ...
Fishing in the `troubled' waters: recognizing, respecting, and rewarding local ecological knowledge, innovations and practices concerning aquatic biological diversity
(2009-12-12)
The study of indigenous ecological knowledge has become an important building block of any participatory approach to natural resources management. It is not the outsiders alone who benefit from the study of indigenous ...
Cost of conservation of agrobiodiversity
(2010-01-16)
The cost of conservation of germplasm stored in gene banks i.e., ex-situ collections has been studied in other parts of the world to estimate direct and indirect contributions by various actors involved in conservation. ...
Empowering conservators of biodiversity and associated knowledge systems: an intellectual property based framework
(2010-01-16)
Biotechnological and other value adding options provide an opportunity for valorising the biodiversity and associated knowledge systems. In the absence of this value addition, the erosion of biodiversity as well as traditional ...