Striving for Sustainability: Environmental Stress and Democratic Initiatives in KeralaThis book takes stock of Kerala's environmental decline as well as people's response towards possible alternatives that meet the basic criteria for sustainability. |
Contents
Employing | 3 |
The World Environmental Crisis | 5 |
Keralas Geographical Setting and Its Environmental | 28 |
in Millimeters by District | 38 |
Status of Ponds in Five Selected Panchayats 1992 | 45 |
Macro and Micro Ecological Zones | 59 |
Land Use Changes | 79 |
Changes in Landscape Ecology | 108 |
State Level Initiatives for Environmental | 204 |
Participatory Panchayat Resource Mapping | 211 |
Resource Mapping in Mezhuveli Panchayat | 219 |
Impact of the PRM Programme | 226 |
The Potential of Local Democracy | 243 |
Local Democracy | 284 |
Bibliography | 309 |
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Common terms and phrases
activities agricultural Alappuzha Alappuzha district arecanut average backwaters biodiversity biomass canal catchment cent Centre CESS chapter Chattopadhyay coastal coconut cover Cultivarea cultivation decentralised decline deforestation density ecological ecosystem environment environmental Ernakulam erosion fertiliser fishing flood forest area global Government of Kerala groundwater hectares human intervention Idukki district increased India irrigation Kannur Kasargod Kollam Kottayam Kozhikode Kuttanad LAKSHADWEEP landscape lateritic lowlands major Malappuram Mezhuveli midland monsoon Muthanga natural paddy fields Palakkad panchayat patterns People's Campaign Plachimada planning plants pollution ponds population population density problems production programme rainfall reservoirs resource base Resource Mapping ridges river rubber plantations runoff rural Sasthamkotta Lake seasonal sediment settlements Silent Valley slopes soil sq km sustainable development Tamil Nadu tapioca Thiruvananthapuram Thiruvananthapuram district Thomas Isaac Thrissur tree crops tribal tropical types urban vegetation Vembanad lake villages water table watershed Wayanad Wayanad district Western Ghats wetlands Wildlife Sanctuary zone