Ecological Outsourcing The preservation of forests could be savings for governments and forest dwellers, and outsourcing could also help preserve the habitat of species of mammals such as elephants and orang-utans, according to a study published this week.

The study, published in the journal Conservation Letters, is part of a broader effort by conservation organizations to protect tropical forests in the industry that threaten the use of charismatic species to build public support and generate funds for conservation.

The study is also part of a battle over how to manage the world’s forests - a debate can be a key element of negotiations.

“Now we must see the political debate of catching up with science, at the time because the potential benefits of linking the protection of forests for biodiversity is not receiving the attention they deserve.

To examine whether the clearance of land for more oil palm plantations or payment to conserve the forests that offer greater value.

Researchers found that the payment to the conservation of the forest is more valuable than plantations, provided that the poorer nations can earn between INR 500 and INR 1500 per tonne of CO2 saved. Currently, one credit represents one tonne of CO2 will be sold for about INR 1000, which has the world of greenhouse gases largest exchange system.

In addition, researchers found that areas of peat forests, which store carbon more abundant and therefore cheaper to manage, which is almost double the density of other species of mammals such as forest areas.

Even the purchase of carbon credits “to a relatively low price may result in benefits to climate change and biodiversity in some areas very important.

We must now see if these opportunities exist in other regions.

The idea of paying people in the developing world to conserve their forests (known in jargon as the climate of a global framework for reducing emissions from deforestation and forest degradation, or REDD) represents a change in paradigm.

Instead of making money through the exploitation of forests for wood products and for crops such as palm oil, governments and citizens in the developing world must accept another model based on payment applied for conservation, could be used for education, health and alternative economic development.

But opponents of a payment system to emphasize that the verification of emission reductions would be too hard. They also say such a system could fly over the world, the opportunity for economic development

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September 2008  

A new e-publication!

eSS Occasional Papers Vol. 1: Technology and Development: No.1 

Technology, Innovation & Development
Towards Food, Health and Environmental Security  

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In 2000, the United Nations agreed upon eight essential objectives, referred to as the Millennium Development Goals or MDGs to be attained by 2015 in order to ensure a more equitable and sustainable development of the planet. The Indian government has emphatically acknowledged the attainment of MDGs as a national priority. In July 2007, a conference on Technology, Innovation and the Millenium Development Goals in India organised in Thiruchirapalli brought together academics, policy makers, NGOs, funding agencies and ordinary citizens with two main objectives: To explore technological solutions, organizational routines, social norms and public policy to attain the MDG; and to initiate a productive dielogue.  

eSS presents eight selected papers discussed at this conference in the first issue of eSS Occasional Papers series 1:  Technology and Development. The volume is organised and edited by Shyama V.Ramani, economist at the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique and  Ecole Polytechnique, Paris, who was instrumental in organizing the conference. The eight-paper volume begins with a discursive paper on the concept of development and includes contributions on  the role of technology for the attainment of food security, health security and environmental security and empowerment of depressed sections of society.  

• ‘Economic Development in India: A Personal View’ by Shyama Ramani, provides a historical overview of development as seen from the perspective of the inheritors and beneficiaries of the historic changes.
• ‘Food Security, Commercialisation of Indian Agriculture, and Technological Options’ by Sukhpal Singh focuses on particular developments in agriculture and their complex impact on social access to food and health and to the economy.
• ‘Health Security and Health Care Markets in India: In the Broader Context of Accessibility and Availability’ by Arijita Dutta prompts the reader to consider how neither inward looking policies nor the new globalization has had the desired impact on health provisions nor improved health access especially of the poor.
• ‘Waste Water Utilization in the East Calcutta Wetlands : From a Local Practice to a Sustainable Option for Poorer Countries’ by Dhrubjyothi Ghosh takes readers on a challenging journey through the urban water bodies of Kolkatta and the unique environmentally sound waste disposal systems designed and implemented by the local population over generations.
• M. Manimekalai in ‘Women Empowerment, Remaining Challenges - Possible Solutions’ reports on a revealing study on microenterprises deriving from self help groups and points out that it is not enough to simply evolve policies and programmes without creating a demand for them.
• Oswald Qunital’s field based paper, ‘Agriculture and Sustainable Development’ looks at the exploitative tendencies in agricultural development and their detrimental effect on food security and food sovereignty.
• In ‘Challenges and Solutions for Environment Sanitation in Rural and Semi-rural Areas’ Subburaman and V.Ganapathy describe the problems of environmental sanitation, challenging the notion that people are fundamentally reluctant to adopt clean and environmentally sound habits of waste disposal.
• In the last chapter, ‘Commercializing an Innovation in an Invisible Market: Case of Ecosan Toilets’ Antonin Benyacar Annabelle Didier and Shyama V.Ramani discuss at length the Ecosan toilet, the innovation, and the problems of promoting and creating a market for it.  

eSS Occasional Papers volumes are collections of theme-based refereed papers.  They may be selected and revised papers presented at conferences and seminars or papers organised on a theme. eSS Occasional Papers has been launched with the intention of providing publication space for bringing together scholarly work on newly emerging areas of social science research. This also provides an opportunity for publishing and widely disseminating selected conference papers quickly and efficiently.

We invite proposals for new volumes of eSS Occasional Papers, either drawn from papers presented at conferences or independently organised, solicited and refereed. eSS will assist in the entire process.

A number of volumes on diverse themes such as Child Studies, Research Studies on the Indian Family, Change and Development in the North-East are in the pipeline.  We invite independent contributions to these volumes.  Papers will be directed to respective editors and will be put through a refereeing process. 

Please write to the editor at padma@esocialsciences.com  with queries, ideas and information on submitting papers.

Lakshmi Priya