Asymmetric Security Challenges
Syed Iqbal Hasnain : The predominance of bureaucracy and coalition politics in India since 1989 has stunted the growth of strategic thoughts in India. As a consequence, the country does not have a...
View ArticleCarbon Crunching At Low Price For The Benefit Of Advanced Nations
Sudhirendar Sharma: Tucked up in the middle Himalayas, farmers in the mountainous state of Himachal Pradesh will crunch atmospheric carbon to help rid the Spaniards of their climate woes. Over the next...
View ArticleCleansing Ganges
Shankar Sharma: As per media reports Indian officials have recently signed an agreement with the World Bank (WB) to use a $1 billion loan to finance the first major new effort in more than 20 years to...
View ArticleMore Sign of Warming, but Cold Negotiations
Syed iqbal Hasnain: The world seems to have taken a step backward in combating climate change in the past year, even though more signs of warming are evident across the globe. In the roughly 12 months...
View ArticleCultural Conundrum of Climate Change
Sudhirendar Sharma: Even at the cost of being refuted, it wouldn’t be out of context to prophesize that globalization of climate change will convert the Himalaya into a new playground for capitalism!...
View ArticleA Carte Blanche To China In Gilgit-Baltistan
Syed Iqbal Hasnain: China’s high-stake poker game in Gilgit-Baltistan, a mountainous area that is part of the Kashmir dispute between India and Pakistan, will have disastrous environmental consequences...
View ArticleDoes Green Matter?
Sudhirendar Sharma: Why is the developed world, that is obsessed with the idea of `greed economy’, thrusting its new capitalist variant – green economy – on the growing economies? Is it a calculated...
View ArticleBlack Soot Aerosols and Water Storage Concerns in Himalaya-Tibetan Plateau
Syed Iqbal Hasnain:Climate change and black carbon are causing the glaciers in the Hindu Kush-Karakorum, Himalaya, and Tibetan plateau to melt. Their waters feed the river systems throughout South...
View ArticleWatch The Shades Of `Green Economy’
Sudhirendar Sharma: Writes about the potential of mountain states in India in terms of their natural wealth and kind of benchmark for the services provided by them. By taking examples from developed...
View ArticleCostly Chocolate, Dearer Diapers And The Durban Dilemma
Sudhirendar Sharma: By strange coincidence two unrelated developments had surfaced at the time when environment ministers from several countries were mulling over reams of text to resolve the climate...
View ArticleMountain Perspective: Monism Of Ideas And Actions To Alternatives
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma: I’m indeed grateful to all the members who made written submissions to the discussions on ‘rewriting mountain perspective‘. At bilateral level, many others have contributed...
View ArticleSafeguarding The Sanctity Of Developmental Aid
Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma’s opinion piece on an an ongoing discourse on ‘Flaw of Big Aid‘ at Climate Himalaya’s discussion platform . There are reasons why James Rinaldi article ‘Flaw of Big Aid’ did not...
View ArticleFraming Sustainable Development Goals With Mountain Perspectives: Post Rio+20...
Dr. Madhav Karki writes about the commitments made by the member countries during Rio+20 summit on various sustainable development goals (SDGs) on low carbon green economy principles and good...
View ArticleMountain Perspective Framework In Post Rio+20 Scenarios: A Discussion Paper
Dr. Madhav Karki discusses about sustainable mountain development- SMD agenda that was adopted during 1992 Rio Earth summit, and how the socio-economic and environmental issues were taken by countries...
View ArticleNo End To The Himalayan Blunder?
The response to recent Uttarakhand disaster is seemingly inadequate, writes Dr. Sudhirendar Sharma. It has not only been a policy failure but institutional inadequacies lie exposed too. Mountain...
View ArticleNeed to Rewrite the Mountain Perspective!
Tagged as fragile, remote and marginal, these three aspects have featured prominently in discussions and deliberations concerning development in the mountains in our part of the world. Retired but...
View ArticleWill the Real Montologist Please Stand up?
‘Since its dictionary existence hasn’t caught on, expecting ‘montology’ as a possible new academic discipline to work its way through could only be preposterous. Isn’t it risking one’s own career path...
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