Publications
UNEARTH – The Viewsletter – Issue 4
UNEARTH- The Viewsletter July 2017 Issue 4 From the Managing Trustee Desk Dear Readers, Welcome to the new issue of Unearth. This issue has a wide range of coverage with a focus on ethics and including aspects such as bankers realizing in the aftermath of the banking...
Establishing Rights over Community Forest Resources in Himachal Pradesh
Establishing Community Forest Rights has been taken up as a process which makes communities understand the importance and collective assessment of their dependence on resources surrounding them. Over this year the process has moved deep into the communities in six...
Himalayan Communities Join the Global Civil Society in the Call for equity and fairshare in Global Climate Action
Himalayan Communities joined the call for equity and fair share in global climate action and warn the global community of the irreparable damage that will be caused if the Himalayan ecosystems are disturbed. Climate science paints a frightening picture—one that...
Hydropower Projects in The Sutlej River Basin North Western Himalayas
Rivers as natural watercourses have remained the most efficient systems to sustain lives and livelihoods of millions of people irrespective of whom they are serving but the scenario has been transforming as the pressures on these water systems and attached ecology has...
UNEARTH – The Viewsletter – Issue 3
UNEARTH- The Viewsletter June 2017 Issue 3 From the Managing Trustee Desk Dear Readers, In the past few months I have been having a very big carbon footprint as Environics is taking more responsibilities for the Asian and Global Networks of which we have members. The...
Community Issues in Coal Belts
A short descriptive report on Barddhaman District outlining areas of public health and indicators of health, nutrition and environmental pollution, MDGs. A blog www.alongtheburntcoalcorridor.wordpress.com elaborates more on specific issues of health and education. 1....
Mobilize-ing the Voice of Unheard Aid Recipients
We have successfully used mobile phones to amplify and advertise the impact of the Indian government in addressing unmet needs of rural citizens. Our approach is to expand the scope of our prior technology service, using the CGNet Swara platform, which uses an...
UNEARTH – The viewsletter – Issue 2
UNEARTH – The Viewsletter is a monthly newsletter of Environics Trust. This is an effort to make everyone aware about the work being done by us, the voices of the communities we work with, the issues and all the other stories we come across. IN THIS ISSUE From the...
UNEARTH – The viewsletter – Issue 1
UNEARTH - The Viewsletter is a monthly newsletter of Environics Trust. This is an effort to make everyone aware about the work being done by us, the voices of the communities we work with, the issues and all the other stories we come across. The first issue of our...
Situation of Unwed Mothers in District Angul
Situation of Unwed Mothers in Angul District - A Field perspective from select development blocks Single mothers bear a social taboo, especially in rural India. One of the factors for such a situation is rapid transformation of micro economy thereby inviting outside...