Quality of Research: Only a fig leaf

Basis of rating

Each scientists work was rated in accordance with the following criteria

Solution

Awardee 2001

Green Scientist Award

Peanuts for ecology

India spends very little on Science for Ecological Security. And then spends it poorly

News - In Short

A belief in tradition

It was a unique ceremony for a unique award given to a unique rural community of India. In what is perhaps the first ceremony of its kind, …

Deconstructing science

Nature uses lean sources to get work done. The environmental crises we face today are a result of ignoring this simple paradigm for two centuries.…

Mark Lynas and the demeaning of science

He’s fuzzy on facts and low on science, but the campaigner gets big media support

'Let us internalise the relation we need to have with nature'

Jonathon Porritt wears many hats. A pioneer of green politics in the UK, sustainability campaigner, media personality and writer. His latest book,…

Science for ecology

Down To Earth and the Centre for Science and Environment announce the winner of the 2001 Green Scientist Award. In the exercise to rate the …

Obituary: Ashish Bose, a man who counted

India’s foremost demographer had a lively interest in a host of societal issues, specially the state of the aam aadmi

Poor enforcement, weak laws make poaching an easy game

Salman Khan might be in the arclights because of his poaching misadventures. But many people routinely get away with killing protected animals; …

Will Robert Zoellick make a better World Bank president?

Charles Taylor made rebels eat enemies

IN SHORT

Brazil's Environment Minister Marina Silva resigns

A journey called change

Their struggle for survival and progress has shaped the understanding of environmentalism both at the national and global levels and influenced …

Letters