Thankfully the Bhutanese care more about GNH than GDP
71% of #Bhutan's territory is covered in forest, but with a contribution of only about 2% to GDP per year, the forest sector remains underutilized. How can the country sustainably invest in its forests? wrld.bg/ybEL50ykTbd
For hope on drought and fire, look to the Indian Ocean
afr.com/politics/federal/for… On the Indian Ocean Dipole (similar to Pacific Ocean's El Niño) that influences a wide range of climatic events across East Africa, South Asia and Australia
"We are left with most bitter of ironies.Measures taken to secure India against vagaries of monsoons—intensive irrigation, planting new crops—have,through a cascade of unintended consequences,destabilized the monsoon itself"
theatlantic.com/science/arch…
fm Sunil Amrith’s Unruly Waters
The Histories Hidden in the Periodic Table
newyorker.com/science/elemen…
From poisoned monks and nuclear bombs to the “transfermium wars,” mapping the atomic world hasn’t been easy.
Dr. K Y Narayanswamy's PhD dissertation Neeradeevige was on cultural aspects of water and traditional water management as gleaned through inscriptions (under Prof M M Kalburgi)
Discover how important water is to our culture with popular writer K. Y. Narayanswamy. Join our Confluence lecture this Saturday! Young adults can sign up for an additional tutorial at bit.ly/submerge_events
Please note that this lecture will be in Kannada.
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There are many traditional varieties of rice in India such as as the Pokkali rice of Kerala that can survive underwater and are saline resistant
#DYK? In Bangladesh & India alone, #rice lost to flooding each year could feed 30 mln people. But “scuba rice” varieties that survive underwater could save millions more from hunger. This and more CGIAR innovations here: on.cgiar.org/2QP5hfL
#foodsecurity @gatesfoundation
The Tragedy of the Tragedy of the Commons blogs.scientificamerican.com… The man who wrote one of environmentalism’s most-cited essays was a racist, eugenicist, nativist and Islamaphobe—plus his argument was wrong
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“Restock with the best adapted species, the native species
always preferred.”
—Aldo Leopold, “Mixing Trout in Western Waters” (1918,
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"What we observe is not nature itself, but nature exposed to our method of questioning" - Werner Heisenberg
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A real-life Pokémon Go could help save the natural world qz.com/1214366/a-real-life-p… "in a six-day span of 2016, Pokémon Go players collected as much data on virtual animals as naturalists have collected about our planet’s real animals in 400 years"
"People's Linguistic Survey of India noted that extinction of a language and the death of an ecology often go together. In India coastal languages are dying as the coast and the livelihoods of the coast are being destroyed ecologically and culturally." thehindu.com/opinion/op-ed/a…
#GlobalUrbanEvolution Project: With the help of amazing collaborators #GLUE is at 129 cities globally. We need your help to make it 200! We especially need SA, east EU, Asia & Africa. Signup at globalurbanevolution.com. Let's revolutionize our understanding of #urbanevolution
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Reading list for beginners - Public Policy, Development, Growth
iterativeadaptation.in/2015/…