Environmentalist Anil Agarwal and noted Danish journalist and writer Knud Vilby discuss the issue of air pollution, governance and how we move ahead. 7500 people die every year because of air pollution. How do policy makers look at this problem? Do they stress on ecology, or on economy? Development in a poor country, like India, is not cheap. The film records the initial stages of CSE’s Right To Clean Air campaign.

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This publication documents traditions, practices technologies and policies of water harvesting in the country. It also assesses state government efforts to deal with drought. The book has a clear message for the thirsty times ahead: Water must be made everybody's business.

Authors :Anil Agarwal, Indira Khurana, Sunita Narain
Pages : 456
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Publication : Centre for Science and Environment
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This report analyses the little understood relationship between development and environment, the impact of environmental degradation on individual, social groups, tribals and nomads. In many ways, this voluntary report on the state of the environment in India is a unique document. It is the product of an enormous participatory effort. A range of voluntary agencies and individuals interested in environmental issues have contributed their best efforts towards making this report.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Kalpana Sharma, Ravi Chopra
Pages : 192
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This report remains one of the few chronicles of the ecological change taking place in the Indo-Gangetic plains - India's most densely populated area. Focussing on the recurrent problem of floods in this region and describes the nature of challenge posed by ecologically sound development and suggests new ways of looking at policies.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 167
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Dying Wisdom: Rise, Fall and Potential of India's Traditional Water Harvesting System provides a comprehensive overview of India's millennia-old traditions of water harvesting. This book triggered a nationwide interest in community-based water management.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Sunita Narain
Pages : 404
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This book presents a national overview of the startling array of challenges faced by India - including pollution and waste generation. The book demonstrates how all natural resources, from land and forests to water and biodiversity, are under immense pressure and in turn, compounded poverty. Rapid industrial, agricultural and urban development has led to alarming and ever-growing levels of pollution. The solution lies in good governance and the application of appropriate technological and management solutions as the nation inches towards higher rates of economic growth and social development.

Authors : Anil Agarwal, Srabani Sen, Sunita Narain
Pages : 696
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Volume 1 is a collection of essays written by Agarwal between 1991 and 1994 for a column called 'Green politics' in the daily Economic Times.

The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

Authors : Pratap Pandey, Sunita Narain
Pages : 348
ISBN : 978-81-86906-37-8
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Volume 2 consists of essays written between 1995 and 1998.

The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

Authors : Pratap Pandey, Sunita Narain
Pages : 220
ISBN : 978-81-86906-38-5
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Volume 3 includes essays written from 1998-2001.

The Anil Agarwal Reader collects in three volumes some of his writings on the environment. They range from the 1990s to the early years of this decade. The volumes showcase the intensity and acuity with which he engaged with the dominant concerns of the times. They are an essential introduction to environmental questions, moving seamlessly between local, national and international perspectives.

Authors : Pratap Pandey, Sunita Narain
Pages : 268
ISBN : 978-81-86906-39-2
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