Western Himalayas
Celebrating Uttarakhand
posted 7 years 6 months agoThroughout history, the Uttarakhand Himalayas have been a source of timber and water to the rest of the nation. However, this has led to severe depletion of resources in the state. Today, the mountain communities find it hard to meet their basic needs of fodder, fuel and water.

Book review - ‘Conserving resources in the Himalayas’
posted 7 years 7 months agoUttarakhand is blessed with an immense amount of natural resources such as forests, wildlife and water, but if you are looking for some research-based information that quantifies, classifies and organizes this information, there isn’t much out there.

Offer of grant progamme for journalists - The Himalayan Climate Change Adaptation Programme (HICAP)
posted 7 years 7 months agoOrganiser details
Call for participation- Digital Photo Contest on 'Water and Life', ICIMOD , June 5, 2013
posted 7 years 8 months agoA village creates magic…and a river!
posted 7 years 8 months agoUfrenkhal – the village
Driving towards Ufrenkhal, a village in Pauri Garhwal (Uttarakhand), I see a lush, green mountain covered with deodar, banj and utees trees. Little did I realize that this diverse and dense forest, which is alive with wildlife, is very new. 40 years ago, this vast area was a firing range!

"Integrate understanding of hydro-geology into planning of watershed management programmes" - A report on the training workshop on groundwater management in the Himalayas, organized by People’s Science Institute, in December 2012 at Dehradun
posted 8 years agoWhy a training on managing groundwater ?
Forced displacement: A gendered analysis of the Tehri dam project, Uttarakhand - An article in EPW
posted 8 years agoThis paper by Vandana Asthana in the Economic and Political Weekly (EPW) examines the lived experiences of displaced women based on the empirical findings of research that looks at women displaced by the construction of the Tehri Dam and their relocation elsewhere.
The state and fate of Himalayan glaciers - A paper published in the magazine Science
posted 8 years 8 months agoThe paper argues that there is a poor understanding of the processes affecting the Himalayan glaciers in the context of the diversity of climatic conditions and the extremes of topographical relief within the region, making projections speculative, which can have a significant impact on the future of water resources in the area. It is thus important to have more information on the status of the glaciers in the Himalayan region.
Viability of Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) projects in India: Study of Chanju CDM project in Chamba district,Himachal Pradesh
posted 8 years 8 months agoThe present paper is an attempt of the researcher to make a comparative analysis between the expected benefits received by the executing agency under CDM and the actual benefits people are expected to receive from Chanju-I Hydro Electric Project.