Carbon Forests at the Margins of the State: The Politics of Indigenous Sovereignty and Market Environmentalism in the North-eastern Hills of India

2021 ◽  
pp. 097317412110590
Author(s):  
Sarah Benabou
Keyword(s):  
Social Inequalities ◽  
The State ◽  
Forest Governance ◽  
Success Stories ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Indigenous Sovereignty ◽  
Market Environmentalism ◽  
And Control

In the north-eastern hills of Meghalaya, the Khasi Hills project, self-advertised as ‘one of the first Redd+ initiatives in Asia to be developed and managed by indigenous governments on communal lands’, is often presented as one of the rare success stories of India’s recent experimentation with market instruments as part of its forest governance. This article uses this example to extend existing discussions on the neoliberalization of forest governance, and its intersections with the cultural politics of resource control. Unlike mainstream forestry projects criticized for being too concentrated in the hands of the Forest Department, this project explicitly taps into the particularities of a region located on the margin of the Indian nation-state, where, crucially, ownership and control of the land lie formally with the people rather than with the state. The article explores the politics of this curious marriage of (formal) indigenous sovereignty with market environmentalism, showing, first, the centrality of these assumed cultural and ecological specificities within the regime of justification of such market project; second, how the aspirations of project proponents for community engagement unravelled in practice; and, third, the limits of their endeavours due to larger structural social inequalities and the requirements of such market projects. I conclude with the idea that far from being anecdotal, this case brings interesting perspectives in the context of the struggle for the recognition of forest rights in the rest of India.

scholarly journals Lotniska komunikacyjne w Polsce po 1918 roku

2020 ◽  
Vol 147 (3) ◽  
pp. 569-596
Author(s):  
Janusz Kaliński
Keyword(s):  
Interwar Period ◽  
Third Republic ◽  
The State ◽  
Rapid Expansion ◽  
Fourfold Increase ◽  
Passenger Traffic ◽  
The Third ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
History Of

Communication airports in Poland after 1918 The history of communication airports coincides with the century-long existence of the reborn Polish State, because it was only after 1918 that the first airports adapted to passenger traffic were established in the country. Two periods of their development deserve particular attention: the interwar period, in which the communication aviation was born, and the time after 2004, when its rapid expansion was noted. The establishment and development of the communication aviation of the Second Polish Republic was strongly associated with the statist policy aimed at modernizing the state. This is evidenced by the construction of airports in Warsaw, Gdynia, Katowice, Łódź and Vilnius, whose activities have helped to integrate the country after the years of partitions. In People’s Poland, civilian communication was based on a network of military airports, which was supplemented with a new airport in Gdańsk-Rębiechów. Large areas of the north-eastern voivodeships were excluded from air connections and timid attempts to overcome these disproportions only appeared in the Third Republic of Poland in the form of airports in Lublin and Radom. The fourfold increase in the number of passengers served by Polish airports in 2004–2016 was an unquestionable phenomenon influenced by the Open Sky policy.

Integrated Aquaculture: Road ahead for sustainable rural development in Meghalaya

2019 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 29-35
Author(s):  
Rupak Nath ◽  
S. M. Kharbuli ◽  
R. N. Bhuyan
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
The State ◽  
Integrated System ◽  
Farm Income ◽  
Fish Production ◽  
Sustainable Rural Development ◽  
Integrated Aquaculture ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Live Stock

Abstract: The unitary concept of producing crop is gradually changing to integrated system, with a view to integrate different farming components viz. fishery, live stock, horticulture to produce fish, eggs, meat and vegetables from the same farm. The major benefit of integrated system is utilization of resources effectively and recycling of waste within the farm and thus, ultimately maintaining ecological balance. Meghalaya a state located in the North Eastern India, characterized by hills and plateaus interspersed with valley lands in the foot hills. People of Meghalaya are predominantly dependent on agriculture and allied sector. Fish a very valuable source of protein, comprise an important part of the diet of local tribal people. As local wild fish supplies from natural water bodies diminishing and relatively limited aquaculture, fish production in the state is insufficient to satisfy the present demand of fish in Meghalaya. The present fish production in the state is 4.77 thousand tonnes against the demand estimated 30 thousand tonnes per annum. Massive demand of the fish is providing a market opportunity for fish producers in the state. The present study categorized integrated aquaculture as an important and promising enterprise for rural farming households of Meghalaya to maximize their farm income, providing nutritional security and as a whole to achieve sustainable development in the rural sector. Key words: Integrated aquaculture, sustainable development, hilly area

scholarly journals Art. XX.—An Account of the Country of Sindh; with Remarks on the State of Society, the Government, Manners, and Customs of the People

1834 ◽  
Vol 1 (2) ◽  
pp. 223-257 ◽  
Author(s):  
James M‘Murdo
Keyword(s):  
Civil Wars ◽  
The State ◽  
Satisfactory Explanation ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
River Indus ◽  
The Government ◽  
The Universe

The author of the Tohfat-al-Giráni states, that “the country of Sindh takes its name from Sind, the brother of Hind, the son of Noah. It is reckoned the forty-third of the sixty-one countries of the universe. The line of the second climate passes, from the north, directly through its centre; and although Sindh is situated in the five first climates, it nevertheless chiefly appertains to the second, and, consequently, lies in the region of the holy cities of Mecca and Medina.” It would be difficult to discover where the author quoted has found these grandsons of the patriarch; indeed, as is usual in such genealogies, they are probably altogether imaginary. The Hindú writings may, perhaps, afford some more satisfactory explanation of the name; but I have not been so fortunate as to meet with it. As far as I can learn from such sources, this country was called Sindhúdès, or “the country of the ocean,” alluding doubtless to the river Indus, which receives that dignified appellation in their sacred writings. The same authorities also state Sindh to have been governed by a Xhuthi, named Jayadrat'ha, who was slain in the civil wars of the Pandús; and it has, in consequence, sometimes received the name of Jayadrat'hadès, after that chieftain.

scholarly journals IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DÉFENSE PUBLIC POLICY DEFEND THE STATE IN INDONESIAN UNIVERSITIES

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yusriadi Yusriadi
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Public Policy ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
The State ◽  
Suicide Bombing ◽  
The North ◽  
The People ◽  
Edward Iii ◽  
Public Policy Implementation

Indonesia in May 2018 was again shocked by the act of terrorism in the form of an explosion that occurred in urban areas on three Surabaya churches carried out by one family, the next action was an explosion in the North Surabaya Police Resort City with a suicide bombing involving one family as well. This fact is an indicator that the nation must re-evaluate the country's defence, which is carried out by the people. The perpetrators have been living with the community all this time but have escaped our mutual attention. Terrorism and radicalism cases also continue to thrive among universities, both state and private, especially those in urban areas. Therefore, it is necessary to re-examine how the implementation of state defence which has been carried out in higher education. In this study the method used is descriptive phenomenological quality and the theory used is the theory of public policy implementation George Edward III. The results of the study show that communication between stake holders is still running independently and has not been integrated and coordinated optimally, the resources used are still carried out individually which results in ineffective and inefficient, disposition (authority) regarding state defence still has its own perceptions between agencies, the bureaucratic structure also has not shown the achievement of effective and efficient goals.

scholarly journals Antimicrobial Resistance of Shigella spp. isolated in the State of Pará, Brazil

2011 ◽  
Vol 44 (5) ◽  
pp. 607-610 ◽  
Author(s):  
Flávia Corrêa Bastos ◽  
Edvaldo Carlos Brito Loureiro
Keyword(s):  
Antibiotic Resistance ◽  
Resistance Rate ◽  
The State ◽  
Control Measures ◽  
Health Concern ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
Shigella Spp ◽  
And Control ◽  
Disk Method

INTRODUCTION: Shigella spp. are Gram-negative, nonsporulating, rod-shaped bacteria that belong to the family Enterobacteriaceae and are responsible for shigellosis or bacillary dysentery, an important cause of worldwide morbidity and mortality. METHODS: We studied the antibiotic resistance profiles of 122 Shigella spp. strains (81 S. flexneri, 41 S. sonnei, 1 S. boydii) isolated from patients (female and male from 0 to 80 years of age) presenting diarrhea in different districts of the State of Pará, in the North of Brazil. The antibiotic resistance of the strains, isolated from human fecal samples, was determined by the diffusion disk method and by using the VITEK-2 system. RESULTS: The highest resistance rate found was the resistance rate to tetracycline (93.8%), followed by the resistance rate to chloramphenicol (63.9%) and to trimethoprim/sulfamethoxazole (63.1%). Resistance to at least three drugs was more common among S. flexneri than S. sonnei (39.5% vs. 10%). Six (4.9%) strains were susceptible to all the antibiotics tested. All strains were susceptible to cefotaxime, ceftazidime, ciprofloxacin, nalidixic acid and nitrofurantoin. CONCLUSIONS: High rates of multidrug resistance in Shigella spp. are a serious public health concern in Brazil. It is extremely important to continuously monitor the antimicrobial resistances of Shigella spp. for effective therapy and control measures against shigellosis.

India's Fragmented Democracy

Worldview ◽  
1984 ◽  
Vol 27 (10) ◽  
pp. 8-10
Author(s):  
B. P. Singh
Keyword(s):  
Natural Disasters ◽  
Northeast India ◽  
The State ◽  
The North ◽  
Decisive Influence ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Religious Factors

Events of recent years have focused considerable attention on northeast India, particularly on tribal uprisings, insurgency, the problem of aliens, the involvement of foreign agencies, political horse trading, and natural disasters. At the same tune, ethnic and religious factors have been almost wholly ignored—this despite the fact that they have a decisive influence on the institutions of democracy and, since India's independence, have acquired quite new and different nuances.In 1950 northeast India consisted of the State of Assam and the Union Territories of Manipur and Tripura. With the passage of the North-Eastern Areas (Reorganization) Act of 1971, the northeast emerged as a significant administrative concept. The more familiar unit of Assam was replaced by a North-Eastem Council (NEC) to deal with planning and security.

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE BLACK SEA COASTAL GEOSYSTEMS IN THE NORTH-EASTERN SECTOR

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eugeny Godin ◽  
Eugeny Godin ◽  
Yury Goryachkin ◽  
Yury Goryachkin ◽  
Vyacheslav Dolotov ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Observational Data ◽  
Coastal Zone ◽  
Black Sea ◽  
The State ◽  
The Black Sea ◽  
Integrated Analysis ◽  
Eastern Sector ◽  
The North ◽  
Current State ◽  
North Eastern

This work is a multi-disciplinary research aimed to develop common approaches to estimating the current state and forecasting evolution of coastal geosystems. From 2010 to now, the state of coastal zone geosystems of the Crimean and Caucasian Russian coast has been studied. The research tasks are solved using up-to-date IT based integrated analysis of historical and new observational data.

State of populations and fishing of semi-anadromous fish in the North-Eastern Caspian sea

2021 ◽  
pp. 22 (87)-30 (94)
Author(s):  
Askarbay Kadralievich Kamelov
Keyword(s):  
Caspian Sea ◽  
Water Area ◽  
The State ◽  
Anthropogenic Factors ◽  
Anadromous Fish ◽  
The Caspian Sea ◽  
The North ◽  
Natural Reproduction ◽  
Pike Perch ◽  
North Eastern

Semi-anadromous fish (roach, bream, pike-perch, asp) are the main objects of fishing in the coastal zone of the North-Eastern part of the Caspian Sea. The state of the populations of these fish changes significantly under the influence of natural and, especially, anthropogenic factors, which have increased in recent years. The aim of this work was to study the current state of populations of semi-anadromous fish in the NorthEastern Caspian Sea. Based on the materials of three years of research (2016, 2018, 2020), with the involvement of literary sources, long-term changes in the size-weight and, age indicators, nutritional status of fish and the sex ratio in populations are considered. It has been established that the state of the semi-anadromous fish populations in the North-Eastern Caspian remains tense at the present time. All populations are characterized by general negative patterns of state change. There are tendencies of decrease in size, weight and age indicators, the number of populations and fish catches are decreasing. These changes were least of all manifested in bream (whose state is relatively stable) and were most pronounced in pike perch. The depressive state of the populations is explained by a decrease in the scale of natural reproduction in recent years, due to a decrease in the water content of the Ural River and the number of spawners allowed to spawn on the river. Marine fisheries in the North-Eastern Caspian are concentrated in shallow waters, which increases the fishing load on semi-anadromous fish and prevents their passage to spawning. It is necessary to reduce the pressure of fishing by reducing the number of nets used in the shallow water area of the North-Eastern Caspian and strict observance of the rule of the forbidden pre-estuary space of the river Ural. English version of the article on pp. 87-94 is available at URL: https://panor.ru/articles/state-of-populations-and-fishing-of-semi-anadromous-fish-in-the-north-eastern-caspian-sea/64076.html

Spatiotemporal dynamics of mangrove forest and association with strandings of Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus) calves in Paraíba, Brazil

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-8
Author(s):  
Iara Dos Santos Medeiros ◽  
Vanessa Araújo Rebelo ◽  
Sebastião Silva Dos Santos ◽  
Rafael Menezes ◽  
Nadjacleia Vilar Almeida ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Mangrove Forest ◽  
Spatiotemporal Dynamics ◽  
The State ◽  
Influential Factor ◽  
Eastern Region ◽  
Northern Coast ◽  
Mangrove Forests ◽  
Trichechus Manatus ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern

Abstract Estuaries in Brazil are highly threatened environments and habitat loss is the main influential factor for the increase in the number of strandings of Antillean manatee (Trichechus manatus) calves in the north-eastern region of the country. The aim of the present study was to analyse and quantify the spatiotemporal dynamics of mangroves in the state of Paraíba and the association with manatee calf stranding events. The study area encompassed 10 remaining mangroves along the coast of the state, four of which were located within protected areas. Information on the mangrove forests was obtained from satellite images from the last four decades. Data on stranded Antillean manatee calves were obtained from a databank with records from 1980 to 2019. The data were analysed using geoprocessing techniques and statistical analyses. The results demonstrated changes in the mangrove forest over time, with larger areas existing during the 1980s, reductions in the following periods but a slight increase in the last decade. The number of stranded Antillean manatee calves increased over the years, with stranding events concentrated mainly on the northern coast of the state. The smallest number of stranding events occurred in the 1980s, when the mangrove forests were larger. Our findings confirm that the integrity of mangroves is of extreme importance to the maintenance and sustainability of Antillean manatee populations.

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