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Afforestation of ARID Wastelands Through Energy Plantations: A Case Study from India

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Forest Energy Forum, 2001-06)

This paper presents the results of a case study of an energy plantation on arid wastelands carries out by the Gujarat Energy Development Agency (GEDA) in Lathedi Village in Kachchh District of Gujarat stat in India. The ...
Commercial agroforestry investment schemes in India: Success of failure in the context of the rural economy

Balooni, Kulbhushan (APA News 17, 2001-01)

In recent years, the concept of agroforestry in India has undergone radical changes. Of late, new models of commercial agroforestry have evolved in the country creating a number of new investment opportunities schemes have ...
Community initiatives in building and managing temporary check-dams across seasonal streams for water harvesting in South India

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Kalro, A.H.; Kamalamma, A.G. (Elsevier, 2008)

Traditional water harvesting system We analyze traditional community initiatives in building and managing temporary checkdams across seasonal streams in Kumbadaje panchayat in the state of Kerala in India. This is a fairly ...
Curse or blessing? Local elites in joint Forest Management in India's Shiwaliks

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Lund, Jens Friis; Kumar, Chetan; Inoue, Makoto (Igitur, Utrecht Publishing &Archiving Services for IASC, 2010-08)

This article suggests that local elites play an instrumental role — either with positive or negative consequences — in shaping struggles for power over processes and outcomes of participatory forest management interventions ...
Decentralized Forest Management in South and Southeast Asia

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Makoto Inoue (Journal of Forestry, 2007-12)

This article reviews the process of decentralization in forest management in developing countries in South and Southeast Asia. Decentralized forest management (DFM) is an alternative to centralized or state- regulated ...
Declining Instituted Collective Management Practices and Forest Quality in the Central Himalayas

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Ballabh, Vishwa*; Inoue, Makoto* (Economic and Political Weekly, 2007-04-21)

There is a steady decline in instituted forest management practices and also a quantitative and qualitative decline of once dense and well-managed van panchayat forests in the Kumaon hills in the central Himalayas. This ...
Economics of wastelands afforestation in India, a review

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2003)

India has vast tracts of waste lands. Afforestation of these wastelands is one of the many alternative uses of such lands. Given the scarcity of capital in India, it becomes imperative to determine the economics and financial ...
Effect of Instituting "Authorized Neighborhood Associations" on Communal (Iriai) Forest Ownership in Japan

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Yamshita, Utako; Inoue, Makota (Society and Natural Resources, 2009)

In recent years, changes in traditional communal (Iriai) forest ownership have beentaking place in rural Japan. One cause is the emergence of Authorized Neighborhood Associations introduced under the revised Local Autonomy ...
Effectiveness of decentralisation reforms in the Philippines's forestry sector

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Pulhin, Juan M.; Inoue, Makoto (Elsevier: Geoforum, 2008)

Decentralised reforms and political conditions in the Philippines present an ideal environment for forest management by recognising the land entitlements of upland and indigenous communities and promoting the involvement ...
Financing of Afforestation of Wastelands

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Sardar Patel University, 1999)
Financing of Wastelands Afforestation in India

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Singh, Katar* (Natural Resouces Forum, 2003)

India has vast tracts of wastelands, which have been lying barren for ages. Most such lands are physically suitable for growing trees and thus could be put to socially productive uses. However although economically viable ...
Governance for private green spaces in a growing Indian city

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Gangopadhyay, Kausik; Mohan Kumar, B. (Elsevier, 2014)

Urban green spaces are relatively scarce in developing countries, and such countries face challenges related to urban sustainability in view of rapid urbanization in the post-economicliberalization era . Although private ...
Joint Forest Management in India: The Management Change Process

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Inoue, Makoto (IIMB Management Review, 2009-03-01)

This paper first addresses the processes and circumstances that led to the evolution of joint forest management in India, and then reviews and analyses the emerging policy issues confronting joint forest management . In ...
Payment for Ecosystem Services to Sustain Kudimaramathu in Tamil Nadu

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Vekatachalam, L. (Economic and Political Weekly, 2018-02-10)

The Tamil Nadu government is attempting to revive the institution of kudimaramathu by leveraging a scheme sponsored by the National Bank for Agriculture and Rural Development to rejuvenate small waterbodies in the state. ...
Problems and prospects of community forestry: Some insights from three case studies in western India

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Panjab University, 2000)

Most of the village common lands in India are hightly degraded and suffer from whant Garret Hardin called the tragedy of the commons. The productivity of these lands is far below their potential. The unabated erosion and ...
Sustainability of tunnel wells in a changing agrarian context : A case study from South India

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Kalro, A.H.; Kamalamma, Ambili G. (Elsevier, 2009)

We analyze tunnel wells (surangams), traditional water harvesting systems, which have been innovated and nurtured by farmers in the Enmakaje panchayat in the state of Kerala in South India for decades . We show how the ...
Sustainable Small-scale Forestry: Socio Economic Analysis and Policy

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Natural Resouces Forum, 2002)
Taxing 'Grey' Products-Market-Based Instruments

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Indian Management, 2000-01)

Taxing production of and consumption of 'grey' products (antithetical to 'green' products) is quite likely in view of the deteriorating environment and increasing awareness and clamour for sustainable environment in ...
Teak Investment Programmes: An Indian Perspective

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Unasylva, 2000)

Unethical practices and inflated claims put into question the future of schemes for investment in Teak plantation in India.
Technological infusion and the change in private, urban green spaces

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Gangopadhyay, Kausik (Elsevier, 2012)

Despite the fact that the multifaceted values of urban green spaces in the public and private domain constitute the core of urban sustainability, their importance is not adequately investigated in the context of developing ...

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