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{"title":"The Green Pen","authors":"R. Menon","doi":"10.3233/RED-120107","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120107","url":null,"abstract":"journalism in India. This increases the significance of The Green Pen, edited by Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha from Sage. It has a wide array of interesting essays penned by active environmental journalists from India and South Asia, which gives a broad and deep perspective into the different burning issues plaguing the region. It also gives us an understanding of the varied kinds of difficulties and ironies that environmental journalists face on a daily basis. Reputed journalist and former editor Darryl D’Monte, in his foreword, talks of how things were in the seventies and eighties, and how things have changed. Though India has surmounted numerous environmental problems, media has still got to give it the importance it deserves. The environmental beat is not seen as glamorous and most newspapers and magazines do not have a single specialist journalist in this area. The end result is half-baked, poor, and sketchy reporting on environmental issues that has little or no research worth the name, while analysis and interpretation is a far cry. Ultimately, most of the time, environmental journalism ends up with statements of some activists, and quotes from the powers that be refuting the charges. Journalists Keya Acharya and Frederick Noronha have managed to get a battery of reputed writers like Pallava Bagla, Kunda Dixit, Richard Mahapatra, Max Martin, Meena Menon, Sunita Narain, Nandan Saxena, Devinder Sharma, and Kalpana Sharma to write on crucial issues that force us to think. For example, Devinder Sharma argues how the media is no more the fourth estate. He talks of the inequalities that no more outrage the elite, such as how a bunch of rich and bold people defaulted on paying back Rs 160,000 crore to the nationalized banks and got away. On other hand, a mentally deranged beggar was arrested and jailed in Delhi as he picked up a bottle of toned milk and did not pay for it. He died a week later in jail. India’s hungry and malnourished population count would be more than the combined population of the European Union. Shree Padre, an activist, farmer and journalist rolled into one, who prides in calling himself a ‘water journalist’, details the water crisis and what could be done to mitigate it. He underlines how water activism is a must for all of us as none of us would be able to survive without it. Padre details interesting media campaigns in Karnataka, Kerala, and Rajasthan where the public was made aware of water issues with a series of positive stories. It caught the imagination of the readers who moved into water conservation soon after. Sunita Narain talks of how floods happen and how we can manage them. She calls today’s floods a double tragedy of mismanagement of land and water combined with science and data mismanagement, and how this mismanagement is criminal. Keya Acharya talks about how little the gatekeepers in media houses know about environmental issues and how he had to fight his way through to make them understand the seriou","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"19 1","pages":"113-114"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"83674071","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Agricultural Transformation and Food Security in India: Lessons for Southeast Asia","authors":"Reshmi Banerjee","doi":"10.3233/RED-120100","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120100","url":null,"abstract":"This article seeks firstly to look at the three aspects of food security in India, viz., food availability, accessibility, and absorption. Secondly, an attempt has been made to study food security in India against the backdrop of governmental programmes and NGO interventions and suggestions have been made for the future. Finally, the paper draws out similarities between India and the ASEAN countries of Indonesia and Vietnam in the arena of agricultural and rural development, both essential for food security.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"3 1","pages":"11-24"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"73779315","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Managing Forest as Complex Adaptive Systems; Building Resilience to the Challenge of Global Change","authors":"J. Schmerbeck","doi":"10.3233/RED-120108","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120108","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"216 1","pages":"115-116"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"72841787","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Expanding rural access to renewable energy: lessons from Sri Lanka's Energy Services Delivery Project (ESDP)","authors":"Benjamin Sovacool","doi":"10.3233/RED-120105","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120105","url":null,"abstract":"The Energy Services Delivery Project (ESDP) in Sri Lanka was an exemplary renewable energy access programme. Consisting of a Credit Component, a Wind Farm Component and a Capacity Building Component, the $55.3 million ESDP successfully installed 21,000 offgrid Solar Home Systems (SHS), 31 megawatts (MW) of grid-connected mini-hydro capacity, 574 kilowatts (kW) of offgrid village hydroelectric systems serving 2,897 households, and a 3 MW grid-connected wind farm from 1997 to 2002. By the end of 2004, two years after the ESDP’s close, the Sri Lankan renewable energy industry boasted more than 40 mini-hydro developers, 10 registered solar companies, 22 registered village hydro developers and 12 village hydro equipment suppliers compared to less than three of each before the ESDP began. This study explores the dynamics of the ESDP, investigates its structure, benefits, challenges and broader implications.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"5 1","pages":"79-104"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"85648411","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"India's Marginal Intra-industry Trade in Selected Agricultural and Processed Food Products: The Likely Implications on Adjustment Costs and Food Security","authors":"P. Varma","doi":"10.3233/RED-120101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120101","url":null,"abstract":"The present study makes an attempt to analyse the structure of India's trade in agricultural products and its possible implications on resource adjustments and food security. As per the ‘Smooth Adjustment Hypothesis’ (SAH), trade integration as a consequence of Intra Industry Trade (the simultaneous export and import of goods from the same industry) would not lead to significant adjustment costs that take place with the displacement of resources from comparatively disadvantaged industries to export oriented industries, as in the case with inter industry trade patterns. If a country is experiencing an increase in inter-industry trade, the changes in exports and imports would be unmatched and as a result the resources will be reallocated from the contracting sectors to the expanding ones. The analysis of marginal intra-industry trade (MIIT) - a dynamic measure of intra industry trade - for selected agricultural and processed food products showed that the products mainly exhibits inter industry trade structure. The study also noted an emergence of new pattern of demand on tropical agricultural products in developed countries. The shift in cropping pattern from traditional to high valued crops that we see in this paper might be due to this shift in global demand. This shift in global demand was also reflected in the expansion of the exports of non-food crops from India to world market. The trade pattern in the form of inter-industry trade in general and the expansion of the exports of high valued crops and processed food products in particular might pose serious implications on the resource adjustments as well as food security.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"11 1","pages":"25-38"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"77820053","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Reviewing Demand–Supply Balance of Foodgrains by 2020","authors":"V. Thorat, S. Sirohi","doi":"10.3233/RED-120099","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120099","url":null,"abstract":"The demand and supply projections of foodgrain are vital for agricultural policy parameters to ensure future supply–demand balances. Several studies have forecasted foodgrain demand and supply using varied assumptions. Given the sensitivity of these estimates to the assumptions used, there are wide variations in the projections made by various researchers and inferences about the status of food security in the country. The paper synthesizes the empirical evidence on demand and supply projections of foodgrains at 2020 and concludes that the supply–demand balance would not be very comfortable in the country in the near future.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"86 1","pages":"1-10"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76331246","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Strengthening Bilateral Trade Relations between India And Iran: Opportunities in Livestock Sector","authors":"M. N. Zadeh, S. Sirohi, B. Mondal, R. Saxena","doi":"10.3233/RED-120102","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120102","url":null,"abstract":"Livestock sector is an important component of the both, Indian and Iranian economy. Due to highly protected livestock markets in the developed countries and rapidly increasing demand for livestock products and inputs in Asian countries, these nations are preferred destinations of livestock products’ trade. This study identifies the potential livestock products and inputs based on Iranian and Indian trade data. The potential of Indian exports to Iran lies in the meat of bovine animals, especially frozen and boneless and also fresh and chilled boneless meat, skimmed milk powder, butter and fat-based products, bird's egg in shell, carded or combed fine animal hair, combed wool in fragments and wool tops, and vaccines for veterinary medicine. The Iranian exports to India can be enhanced in raw skins of sheep or lamb with or without wool on, tanned or crust hides and skins of bovine or equine animals, in wet or dry state, tanned or crust hides and skins of sheep and lambs without wool in wet or dry state, greasy wool and degreased wool not carded or combed.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"16 1","pages":"39-50"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"76913268","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Willingness to Pay for Electricity Supply Improvements in Rural India","authors":"H. Gunatilake, Narasimhamurty Maddipati, S. Patil","doi":"10.3233/RED-120104","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120104","url":null,"abstract":"This study undertakes a survey using a random sample of 2083 households in rural Madhya Pradesh, India, to estimate benefits of improved electricity supply to rural households. The survey estimated that the Willingness to Pay (WTP) for a household for improved service is 340 per month, on average. Results of this study support similar investments in other states of India with similar electricity services and socio-economic characteristics. Simulations using the estimated WTP function show possibility of progressive tariff increase as household income increases. Block and flat tariff show similar impacts on revenue generation but block tariffs have the ability to induce energy conservation at household level. This study casts doubts about the need for subsidies for below poverty line and scheduled caste households.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"6 1","pages":"55-78"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2013-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"75974469","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Climate Change in Indonesia: A Glimpse of Riau and East Kalimantan","authors":"Reshmi Banerjee","doi":"10.3233/RED-120097","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/RED-120097","url":null,"abstract":"Indonesia is the largest and widest archipelago in the world with a coastline length of 81,000 km alongwith 17,508 islands, which makes it one of the most vulnerable countries to climatic changes. This paper focusses on the climatic changes in Indonesia with special reference to Riau and East Kalimantan. It is based on secondary literature and examines the effects of greenhouse emissions, deforestation, changes in land use, etc. on environment, biodiversity, and livelihood options of the people living there. Finally, the article explores the national/governmental efforts and the international assistance provided to help Indonesia deal better with climate change adaptation. The future priority areas of intervention would be decentralized risk reduction initiatives and resource conservation, educating farmers and vulnerable communities, coastal area research, local interventions, and coordination between the provinces.","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"9 1","pages":"89-99"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"78162319","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A forest history of India","authors":"J. Puyravaud","doi":"10.3233/red-120004","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.3233/red-120004","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":17166,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Resources, Energy, and Development","volume":"1 1","pages":"49-51"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2012-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"79817954","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}