Publications
Minimum Support Price of Minor Forest Produce (MFP) and Its Sustainable Harvest: A Social Safety Measure for MFP Collectors in India
Policy brief
| February 15, 2018
Forests in India are treated primarily as social and environmental resource, and only secondarily, as commercial resource. More than 300 million people derive full or partial livelihood and sustenance need from forests. Many a times, communities are compelled to harvest forest produce unsustainably due to lack of adequate finance to meet their day to day life supporting needs. With such large population dependent on forest resources, the minor forest produce (MFP) sector is India’s largest unorganized sector.
Measures to Control Air Pollution in Urban Centres of India: Policy and Institutional framework
Policy brief
| February 9, 2018
Background and Objective Many Indian cities including New Delhi are included in the list of most polluted cities in the world (WHO 2014, Cheng et al. 2016). About 80 per cent of cities in India violate the prescribed standards of ambient air quality (CPCB 2014).
Resource efficiency in automobile sector
Article
| February 6, 2018
A TERI intervention for wiser material usage in auto component manufacturing
What is India losing by not conserving its land?
Article
| February 5, 2018
An assessment of the costs of land degradation in six different parts of India
Learning by example: Solar PVs in Bengaluru’s schools
Article
| February 2, 2018
Setting up solar rooftops in educational institutions of the city
The E-rickshaw story: Was the advent of electric mobility in India planned
Article
| February 1, 2018
Long before the Government of India announced its intention to have an all-electric fleet by 2030; a three-wheeled retrofitted battery rickshaw was taking the Indian cities by storm. In 2016, in Delhi alone, the number of electric rickshaws plying on the roads was over 1,00,000.
Watershed management and development
Article
| January 31, 2018
The primary cause for poverty and marginalization in rainfed rural areas is low crop and livestock productivity coupled with deterioration in the quality of land and other natural resources.
Turning plastic on its head
Article
| January 29, 2018
Resource Efficient Technologies in SRC has been working on making plastic environment-friendly The resource efficient technologies (RET) group in SRC focuses mainly on the development of environment-friendly plastics with a special emphasis on biomaterials, using naturally available renewable resources. The group works on the following thrust areas to be able to come up with ways to meet the challenge of consumption and disposal of the seemingly indestructible material.
Eight years of National Solar Mission: Renewing the renewables target
Article
| January 24, 2018
The National Solar Mission's original target of achieving 20 gigawatts (GW) of grid-connected solar power plants by 2020 has been since revised to 100 GW
Breathe and Let Breathe
Article
| January 24, 2018
An action plan against air pollution for Delhi cannot be fully implemented if the neighbouring states of Punjab, Haryana, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh have no plans of their own.