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Rapport écrit en collaboration par Usha Ramanathan pour le Ministère de l'environnement et des forêts concernant une opération minière en Orissa par la firme Vedanta. [le texte en anglais]

Article de Usha Ramanathan 'A State of Surveillance'. [lire l'article en anglais]

Publication dans The Hindu de Usha Ramanathan's 'Implications of Registering, Tracking, Profiling', 5 avril 2010. [lire l'article en anglais]

Publication de: P. Cullet, A. Gowlland-Gualtieri, R. Madhav & U. Ramanathan eds, Water Governance in Motion: Towards Socially and Environmentally Sustainable Water Laws (New Delhi: Cambridge University Press, 2010). [lire plus]

The Kyoto Protocol and vulnerability: human rights and equity dimensions

This chapter first examines the broad context within which human rights can be examined in the climate change regime. It then focuses on equity, one of the core concepts of the existing regime that provides direct and indirect links with human rights. It examines two dimensions of equity, first, in the context of emission reduction commitments and, secondly, in the context of the Kyoto mechanisms. The chapter then considers ways in which vulnerability could be given a much more central role in the future and examines a series of issues that concern the vulnerability of both states and individuals.

Forest Carbon Offsets and International Law: A Deep Equity Legal Analysis

Northern citizens, governments, and businesses are investing billions of dollars in the vast, imperiled forests of the South. In a forest carbon project, a developer plants trees to reforest a degraded ecosystem or preserves a forest that would have otherwise been degraded or felled. The developer can then sell the carbon, now sequestered in the trees and underground biomass, for a contracted period of time.

A word on eminent domain

Eminent domain is understood as the power that the state may exercise over all land within its territory. Eminent domain requires that the power may be invoked only for a public purpose, but what constitutes public purpose is wide open to interpretation and use. The development debate which has been stoked by the mass displacement that accompanies large projects has placed a severe strain on the acceptability of the power of eminent domain.

Evolution of Water Law and Policy in India

This chapter examines the evolution of water law and policy in India from pre-historic to present times, briefly outlining pre-colonial developments and focusing on colonial and postcolonial issues and the complexity of regulating water in India. The fragmentation of water law in the past has not yet been overcome. Water law remains patchy partly because it is a state subject while being also an issue of concern at the union level and partly because there are elements of water law in environment or health laws. Further, division of tasks between various social actors and levels is unclear. Water policy is being pushed in a number of different directions, reflecting the specificities of the Indian situation, such as its complex administrative structure, overlapping and sometimes contradictory rights frameworks, vastly different endowments in water resources in different regions, and difficulties in allocating water in the most socially and economically appropriate manner.