...a selected list of print and film resources!
MARKING ENVIRONMENT DAY
BOOKS
The Little Green Book: A
Directory of Environmental Opportunities, with Special Reference to Delhi
By Rajesh Rahul & Sunita Rao (Ed.), published 1995 (2nd
edition)
Access Contribution: 30/-
This
little resource book is the outcome of the need many of us felt, for a
comprehensive guide to the environment-related opportunities, activities,
facilities, and resources available in Delhi. Such a need has been repeatedly
expressed by students and young people looking for opportunities to become
involved in the environmental movement.
Environmental Aspects of the Sardar
Sarovar Project
By Ashish Kothari and Rahul N. Ram, published 1994
Access
Contribution: Rs. 20/-
The
Sardar Sarovar Project (SSP), the largest and most expensive river valley
project ever initiated in India, is often described by its proponents as
Gujarat’s lifeline. However, it’s critics feel that it may be one of India’s
largest planned ecological disasters. In this book, environmental aspects of
the SSP are discussed here in terms accessible to the lay reader: the need for
an Environmental Impact Assessment of the project and the lack thereof; the way
in which conditional environmental clearance was granted to the SSP and how
that clearance has effectively lapsed; the possible environmental impacts of
the SSP; and whether the SSP can be justified at all.
The
environmental impacts are described such that basic ideas about environmental
impacts of dams and irrigation projects are clearly spelt out, therefore
setting up a framework within which projects other than SSP can also be
examined.
Forest Revival and Water Harvesting : Community Based
Conservation at Bhaonta-Kolyala, Rajasthan, India (Community Based Conservation
in South Asia: Case Study No. 2)
By
Swati Shresth with Shridhar Devidas , Published 2001
Access Contribution: Rs.
60/-
This study is an attempt to undersand
the natural resource conservation and management efforts of two villages,
Bhaonta-Kolyala, in approximately 600 ha of forest area in the upper catchment
of a recently revived rivulet, Arvari. The Arvari catchment is located in the
Alwar district of Rajasthan in western India. The resident communities and
Tarun Bharat Sangh (TBS) support the conservation initiative. This effort is
not only indicative of the potential of local institutions in protecting
natural resources but also provides an example of the role NGOs can play in
strengthening communities and conservation initiatives.
Coastal Conservation through
Enterprise at Rekawa Lagoon, Sri Lanka (Community Based Conservation in South
Asia: Case Study No. 5)
By S.U.K. Ekaratne & Others, Published 2000
Access Contribution: Rs.
60/-
Rekawa’s major resources include its
villagers, a beach environment with its associated biological resources, the
lagoon, its water supply and fishery resources, mangroves and contiguous scrub
forest with its wildlife, agricultural and the aesthetic resources associated
with these habitats.
Rekawa is situated in the coastal
plain of Sri Lanka. Some 6,000 years ago, the3 Rekawa lagoon area was submerged
under water (TEAMS, 1994). Today, it is located on the lowest peneplain in Sri
Lanka, gently sloping from an inland elevation of 300 metres to sea level.
Rekawa lagoon itself is shallow its depth averaging 1.4 metres. The widest
point is approximately 2.5 km (Jayakody and Jayasinghe, 1992). The surrounding area is defined by hills,
ridges and outcroppings of less than 50 metres above sea level. Scattered along
this coastal area are granite outcroppings, though most of the land forms an
undulating coastal plain (Ganewatta et al, 1995).
Does Community-Based Conseration Make
Economic Sense? Lessons from India (Community Based Conservation in South Asia:
Theme Paper No. 8)
By Sushil Saigal , Published 2000
Access Contribution: Rs. 60/-
There has been an increasing
world-wide interest in community-based wildlife/forest conservation and
management during the last few years. Many countries are initiating or
strengthening community wildlife/forestry programmes and international funding
agencies are increasingly advocating and supporting it. There are three main
reasons for this shift towards community-based approaches. Firstly, there is a
growing realization that long-term conservation or development of
wildlife/eco-system resources is not possible without active involvement of
communities living in and around forests. Secondly, there is a greater
awareness among planners, administrator, academics and conservationists of the
importance of wildlife/ecosystems in the material, cultural and spiritual life
of these communities. Lastly, forests
and other ecosystem are being increasingly seen as key elements in rural
development efforts in most countries.
Land, Water, Forests, Whose access? Whose control? Bihar
Padyatra Diary (Hindi)
By
Kriti Team, Published 2001
Access Contribution:
Rs.25/-
The
book is related to history of Satyagraha in Madya Pradesh, Bihar, Orissa and
Uttar Pradesh and showing to experience of Payatra. Available in hindi version.
The Citizen’s Guide for Participating in Environmental
decision making
By Ritwick Dutta (Series ed.) , Published 2006
Contribution: Rs. 100/-
The Citizen’s Guide is
the first in the “Environmental Democracy Series”: a series of publication
planned on critical environmental issues. This is being jointly researched by
the Environmental Democracy Programme of HESCO and Lawyers Initiative for
Forest and Environment (LIFE). The aim of this series is to provide
information, which equips communities, citizens and NGO’s among others in
securing justice on environmental issues. Prepared by lawyers and activists,
the aim of the citizen’s guide is to simplify complex laws in a manner in which
the target group is able to make the most use of it and access institutional of
justice.
Stakeholder Participation in Environmental Governance: Corporate Social Responsibiity
By
Lead India (Compiled), Published 2006
Contribution: Rs. 100/-
Contribution: Rs. 100/-
This
booklet is a collection of four case studies prepared for the GTS.
Participants form across the world met for 10 days to explore and work on
topics related to environmental governance, water governance and forest
governance. Given the challenges of the Indian economy, it is hoped that
the case studies presented will help guide decision-makers within the industry
and the government.
Local Environmental Governance in India: Case Studies
By
Lead India (Compiled), Published 2007
Contribution: Rs. 50/-
Contribution: Rs. 50/-
This publication is a compilation of case studies presented at the
National Consultation on “Local Environmental Governance in India”: Setting the
Agenda” held in New Delhi, India on the 15th and 16thMarch 2007.
Privatization of Rivers in India
By
Arun Kumar Singh, Published 2004
Contribution: Rs. 100/-
Contribution: Rs. 100/-
The water sector, driven
by the logic of neo-liberal paradigm, is increasingly under the domain of the
market forces. The World Water Council- made up of the World Bank, the water
TNCs and development agencies of the North- through its Water Vision Statement
posits a paradigm shift from water as a "common good" to a
"tradable" commodity. As a natural corollary to this, the water TNCs
directly or indirectly, are plotting to control the world's dwindling water and
natural resources by reshaping national policies, reframing national laws and
changing institutional structures in Third World countries, to ensure their
monopoly over the water market. Its use, supply and distribution is determined
by the market principle of profit perpetuate, without question, the inequality
in the access to water. This inequality, inherent in logic of the water market,
is a curtailment of human rights of a large majority of the people in the
world. This approach is in line with the "Second Generation" economic
reforms characterized by a shift from trade in goods, to trade in services in
compliance with the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) within the
WTO regime.
Privatization as a
solution to the water crisis proposes a model of water management structure
that relinquishes all control over water resources to the domain of the market
forces and thus marginalizes the role of the state and the rights of
communities. The institutionalization of this type of model will inevitably
lead to the cartelization of India 's fresh water resources, ecological
devastation and social conflicts.
Ensuring a Safe Environment: Laws Against Pollution
By
P.D. Mathew & P.M. Bakshi, Published 1995 (Third reprint)
Contribution: Rs. 10/-
Contribution: Rs. 10/-
The past two decades have seen all over the world, an increased
concern for the purity of the environment. Witnessed also was a rapid and
extensive legislative activity to check anything that pollutes the environment.
Many are the noteworthy judicial decisions that touched upon the various
aspects of environment pollution. All these developments, worldwide as they
are, have found their echo in India too.
A law to maintain the purity of land, water and air and other
elements of nature is as old as history in India. The Smritis (ancient legal
literature) of India have specific provisions to ensure the purity of water.
Documentary Films
By Sanjay Kak (85 min, English& Hindi, DVD)
Contribution: Rs. 500/-
From being a fight over the fate of a river valley, the
struggle against big dams in the Narmada valley has begun to raise doubts about
an entire political system. What is at issue now is the very nature of India’s
democracy. Who owns this land? Who owns its rivers? Its forests? Its fish?
Marubhumi By Amar
Kanwar (52 min, Hindi , with English Subtitles, DVD), 1996 Contribution: Rs. 500/-
Marubhumi is a documentary about the story of water in
Rajasthan, India and offers glimpses of history, policies and the development
of water harvesting in ancient and modern Jodhpur (Marwar)
A
Narmada Diary (available DVD & CD Films in Hindi)
By
Simantini Dhuru & Anand Patwardhan
(60 min, Hindi , DVD), 1995 Contribution:
Individual Rs. 400/- Institutional Rs.
1200/-
Development for whom, sacrifice by
whom? How much benefit and at what cost? For the last decade the Narmada Bachao
Andolan (Save Narmada Movement) has asked basic questions of a government
determined to build the Sardar Sarovar Dam in Northern India.
Jardhar Diary
By
Krishnendu Bose (29 min, English, DVD),
2002
Contribution:
Rs. 500/-
This film is a personal journey into an area,
which is alive with consciousness and commitment to save their natural
resources. We meet men and women who are ready to stake their lives to protect
and defend what they think is their own. This is story of Jardhar, in the hills
of the Garhwal Himalayas. The villagers of Jardhar have revived their forests,
are fighting limestone mining on their hill slopes, staving off power lines,
which will decimate their rich Pine and Sal cover and reclaiming traditional seeds
and putting it back into circulation. Through the voices of the villagers and
an inspired leadership, many of them a chip from the old Chipko block, we
travel through the area. And get to know the revolution which is sometimes
covert and sometimes out in the streets.
Where is My Home?
Contribution: Rs. 500/-
In recent years, the sea levels have been rising in the
Sunderbans in West Bengal. But in the last few, the intensity has grown.
Oceanographers have measured a rise of about 3 mm as against the global average
of 2mm. Lohachaura and Suparibhanga, two
islands in the delta have been permanently lost to these rising waves. Many
scientists have located this in the climate change process, which is
threatening to sweep the Earth. They predict 100,000 people in these parts,
affected over the next 15 years.
Our story is about Anjona, this 13-year-old girl, who defines
the human face of this environmental disaster in the making. She and her family
were forced to leave here home in the island of Ghoramara, as it was sinking.
Her new home in the neighboring Sagar Island, is also being rampaged by the
pounding Bay of Bengal. Her future is uncertain. She is another environmental
migrant, like the thousands before her, who is vulnerable and powerless against
the fury of the sea.
Apna Jungle Apni Kahani
By
Krishnendu Bose (33 min, Hindi, DVD), 2001
Contribution:
Rs. 500/-
This film travels
through the parts of Eastern Rajasthan, NGO Tarun Bharat Sangh have worked in.
Going beyond the water success story, it captures the forest conservation
aspects of the movement which have been hitherto ignored. The Film documents 5
case studies bringing out the various facets of the empowerment process of the
communities which has helped them in protecting their forests. The narrators of
the film are the villagers who have lived through the experience of the process
of empowerment and conservation. The script was written with the active
collaboration of the villagers. The leitmotif of the film is a Gram Sabha
meeting in progress, which is the thread which binds the stories together. This
meeting throws up the power of the communities in the process of mapping their
development plans.
The Miracle Water Village
By
Rintu Thomas & Sushmit Ghosh (13
min/4.3, DVD)
Contribution:
Rs. 350/-
The film focuses lauds
the efforts of the villagers of Hilware Bazar for recharging their village’s
groundwater reserves. The village received the National Water Award and is also
being studied by the World Water Forum. The film explores the techniques
employed explaining how these methods can be replicated by other regions facing
water shortages.
Changing Climates: The Politics
(English and Hindi)
By
CSE (27 min,English, VCD)
Contribution:
Rs. 750/-
From the groundbreaking
Rio Earth Summit in 1992, to the breakdown of the international climate
negotiations in The Hague in 2000, politicians have struggled to find agreement
on firstly, whether the world is warming, and secondly, a global consensus for
action. Today, with international agreement seemingly as far away as ever,
Earth Report tracks the political ups and downs of what is arguably the world’s
greatest problem.
A Dam Old Story
By
Tarini Manchanda (26 mins., English
Subtitled, DVD), 2010
Contribution:
Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
The film focuses lauds
the efforts of the villagers of Hilware Bazar for recharging their village’s
groundwater reserves. The village received the National Water Award and is also
being studied by the World Water Forum. The film explores the techniques
employed explaining how these methods can be replicated by other regions facing
water shortages.
Chilika Bank$ - Stories from India’s
Largest Coastal Lak 1970-2007
By
Akansha Joshi 60 mins, English), 2008
Contribution:
Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
The film looks at the
times, when there was no export bazaar to the time when there may be no lake,
from the time fisher folk led a hardworking yet comfortable lives to the time
where they have to fight for their survival.
Earth Witness: Reflections on the Times
& The Timeless
By
Akansha Joshi (60 mins, English), 2011
Contribution:
Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
Four common people - a
teacher, a farmer, a shepherd, a father find themselves on the front line of
the earth's biggest, most complexes crisis: climate changes that affect their day
to day life. Living in diverse climatic regions - the mountains of Nagaland,
the grass lands of Kutch, the Gangetic delta and the forests of Central India -
they use this challenge as a part of their art with nature. Their lives journey
through the dark labyrinths of the multidimensional crisis, reflecting stories
of our times - of trees, mining, monkeys, logging, rivers, seeds, waterfalls,
flowers - and the spirit of the timeless.
Reviving Faith – A Himalayan Journey…
in Search of the Lost Tradition of Conservation
By
Rishu Nigam (60 mins, English), 2008
Contribution:
Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
The woods of Anusuya Devi
in Uttarakhand remain untouched by human influence. The film ‘Reviving Faith’
takes its viewers into the sacred groves of the Himalayas that are still alive
because of the faith of its people. It traces the struggles of the Himalayan
people to save their forests from being plundered. What remains of this faith
today? The Himalayas are crumbling under the pressure of countless development
projects. On the one hand, they are bearing the assault of human abuse; on the
other they are dealing with an invisible adversary called climate change.
Reviving faith raises a critical question- can the modern world restore the faith
that conserved nature, before it gets too late?
Village of Dust, City of Water
By Sanjay Barnela (30 mins, English), 2006
Contribution: Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
A film that negotiates
the rough terrain of water use and misuse across India. -Antelope Award for the
Best Environment Film at the Wildlife Asia film Festival, Singapore, March
2007. -A ‘special mention’ by the Jury at the “Verviers, au film de
l’eau†Film Festival, Belgium,
13 -16 March 2008
Water Warriors
By Nutan
Manmohan (60 mins, English), 2008
Contribution:
Individual Rs.400.00, Institutional Rs. 700.00
“Anything else you're
interested in is not going to happen if you don’t have water …. Don't sit this
one out. Do something.” - Carl Sagan. This 2 part film series profiles ‘water
warriors’ who have launched a series of innovations to combat water stress.
A Valley refuses to die
By
K.P Sasi (51 min, English, DVD), 1988-90
Contribution:
Rs. 500/-
A documentary on the
social and environmental issues caused by the Narmada dams and the subsequent
people’s movement of the adivasis and farmers in the Narmada valley.
MARKING WORLD REFUGEE DAY!
Refugees and the Law
By Ragini Trakroo Zutshi (Ed.)
Contribution: Rs. 700/-
Contribution: Rs. 700/-
This
book looks at refugee law, but not within the limits, it has traditionally been
confined to. Its aim is to sensitise lawyers and practitioners all over the
country, concerned with humanitarian issues, to the increasing need for a
broader conceptual framework-one that can make, if only marginally, a little
more sense of the seemingly chaotic ground realities, in all their complexity,
and which also factors in the impact of policy on law.
A
conventional refugee is a person who is outside her country because she
reasonably believes that her civil or political status puts her at risk of
inviting serious harm in her country and that her own government cannot or will
not protect her. The emphasis is on the element of genuine risk or fear. The
definition of a refugee, which was formulated in the 1951 Convention and
modified in the 1967 Protocol, has evolved in practice. Around half the world’s
refugees are children. In conflict situation, children are increasingly
becoming not only accidental victims of refugee influxes but also deliberate
target. On account of their dependence, vulnerability and development needs,
children require special attention and protection.
While
the book mainly focuses on the foundation and framework of international
refugee law, it analyses in some details the domestic legal framework available
to bring this special group within its ambit. The aim is to facilitate the
efforts of those who are engaged in the advocacy of the rights of refugees and
issues relating to their protection.
Nowhere To Run…
Plight of Burmese Refugees Mizoram
By HRLN (21.05 min, English, DVD), 2004
Contribution: Rs. 250/-
This film tells
about the plight of Burmese refugees living in the North-Eastern state of Mizoram.
In Search of My
Home
By Sushmit Ghosh & Rintu Thomas (30 min, Hindi, DVD),
2010
Contribution: Rs. 250/-
In the world’s largest democracy live thousands of men, women
and children with lost homes and forgotten names. Sheltering one of the largest
refugee populations in the world, India still lacks a comprehensive domestic
refugee law that could guarantee them their basic human needs and a life of
dignity. In Search of My Home is a journey with a Burmese and an Afghan family,
as it explores the complexities in their everyday battle for survival. Weaving
their emotional stories of hope and despair, love and loss, the film uses
live-action, photography, music and text narratives to tell a story that is
absent from India’s collective conscience. This film was made by Sushmit Ghosh
and Rintu Thomas as part of the Info change Media Fellowships 2009.
This Prison Where
I Live
By Rex Bloomstein; Michael Mittermeier & Zarganar (90 min,
English, DVD), 2010
This is a film about two comedians. Maung Thura, better known
as Zarganar, is Burma’s greatest living comic. Relentlessly victmised by the
Burmese military junta, he is now in prison. Michael Mittermeier, in stark
contrast, is free to practice his art of humour and provocation as one of
Germany’s leading stand up comedians. The genesis of this film begins in 2007,
when Zarganar agreed to be interviewed by the British documentary filmmaker,
Rex Bloomstein, despite being banned from all forms of artistic activity and
talking to foreign media. Over two days Bloomstein and his team interviewed
Zarganar in depth in his flat, showed the cinemas that are prevented from
screening his films, the bookstalls not allowed to sell his plays or poetry,
and the makeshift TV studio where his fellow comedians rehearse on a stage that
he himself is forbidden to tread. Footage which has never been seen or
broadcast before. Hearing of Zarganar’s fate and seeing the footage, Michael
Mittemeier joined Rex Bloomstein in make a film about this man who has paid
such a price for speaking out against the regime. This Prison Where I Live is a
feature documentary and is the story of Michael’s exploration into the
personality, the motivation and the talent of the man who describes himself as
the ‘loudspeaker’ for his people.
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