Publications
Can micro measures in urban cities offset the impact of heat stress?
Article
| February 27, 2018
The growing instances of the impacts of extreme heat are a warning sign for what awaits us. The year 2015 saw massive heat related causalities across India, and Delhi was no exception to this.
Climate Change Adaptation: Finding Untapped Opportunities in Uttarakhand
Article
| February 27, 2018
High up in the tough terrains of Uttarakhand, located are the remote villages of Rudraprayag. In these upper Himalayas, where the land used to be usually covered with about a feet of snow upto a decade ago, climate change has decimated the amount of snowfall to hardly about 6 inches, which too melts away quickly. Although more bare land is available now for farming, it is still usually deprived of nutrients to support the cultivation of green vegetables or the finest variety of rice. The farming community is usually restricted to growing wheat, millets, and tuberous roots such as turmeric.
Bringing back traditional farming in Uttarakhand
Article
| February 26, 2018
A TERI initiative, funded by the Louis Dreyfus Foundation, in chosen villages of Uttarakhand has been working to revitalise the region's traditional crops and practices to improve local food security in a sustainable manner.
India@ 70: Concerns and Opportunities in Waste Recycling In India
Article
| February 23, 2018
Dr Suneel Pandey and his team discussed opportunities in waste recycling sector and the challenges of implementing the waste processing technologies in the India@70 seminar on Concerns and Opportunities in Waste Recycling In India held at TERI.
Minimum Support Price of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) and Its Sustainable Harvest: A Social Safety Measure for MFP Collectors in India
Policy brief
| February 15, 2018
Forests in India are treated primarily as social and environmental resource, and only secondarily, as commercial resource. More than 300 million people derive full or partial livelihood and sustenance need from forests. Many a times, communities are compelled to harvest forest produce unsustainably due to lack of adequate finance to meet their day to day life supporting needs. With such large population dependent on forest resources, the minor forest produce (MFP) sector is India’s largest unorganized sector.
Measures to Control Air Pollution in Urban Centres of India: Policy and Institutional framework
Policy brief
| February 9, 2018
Background and Objective Many Indian cities including New Delhi are included in the list of most polluted cities in the world (WHO 2014, Cheng et al. 2016). About 80 per cent of cities in India violate the prescribed standards of ambient air quality (CPCB 2014).
Resource efficiency in automobile sector
Article
| February 6, 2018
A TERI intervention for wiser material usage in auto component manufacturing
What is India losing by not conserving its land?
Article
| February 5, 2018
An assessment of the costs of land degradation in six different parts of India