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Interview: Connecting the dots from Wetlands to poverty alleviation

As part of TEEB for Water and Wetlands, Ritesh Kumar, the Conservation Programme Manager of Wetlands International, South Asia recently shared his views on how wetlands provide products that satisfy the livelihoods of many communities and therefore help to alleviate poverty. He argues for development polices and strategies that recognise this value. Read the interview by Anand ...

Aug. 13, 2013

By Wetlands International

NewHold launches second platform with PRIME AE

After studying the engineering and architecture sector for more than a year, NewHold Enterprises LLC has invested in PRIME AE Group Inc. (Baltimore, Md.), a provider of services in architecture and engineering, construction management, transportation, and water resources. PRIME AE represents NewHold's second platform following its investment in the non-hazardous liquid waste industry through ...

Jan. 7, 2020

By Environmental Business International (EBI)

On the Frontlines: Journalist Mikey Kay Traveled the Globe to Show Healthcare`s Response to COVID-19 Pandemic

Journalists relish finding stories hidden in unassuming places. For Mikey Kay, a reporter and filmmaker who set out in early 2020 to tell the story of the healthcare industry during the COVID-19 pandemic, one of those places was an orange and white building standing in a green field in the Indian state of Haryana. Located some 70 kilometers northwest of New Delhi, the handsome four-story ...

Feb. 2, 2021

By GE Renewable Energy

Best practices for sample preparation & lipid extraction from various samples

Lipids play a structural role in organisms, forming cells and organelles’ membranes. Not only do they store energy, but recent studies also showed their role as first and second messengers in signal transduction. As they are implicated in widespread pathologies such as cancer or inflammation, they have become a major concern for the scientific community. Lipid extraction for analysis can ...

Sep. 10, 2018

By Bertin Instruments

Living with floods in the Mahanadi Delta, India

In October 2013, one of the fiercest cyclones to hit the Bay of Bengal for many years made landfall on the low-lying delta coast of the Indian state of Odisha. With winds battering the coastline at more than 200 kilometres per hour, the structural damage from cyclone Phailin was intense. Thousands of straw, timber and bamboo homes were destroyed across the delta of the River Mahanadi, one of ...

Mar. 14, 2015

By Wetlands International

Landscape level planning for community resilience

While water related hazards such as floods and droughts are on the increase, the degradation of wetlands and other ecosystems erodes naturefs ability to regulate these hazards. In this workshop, we make the case for the need to integrate ecosystems in resilience practice and the importance of landscape level planning to reduce disaster risk. Landscape level planning in Delta areas This workshop ...

Sep. 17, 2014

By Wetlands International

Research and education - University of Illinois

During the 2007-2008 academic year grants were awarded to Dr. Praveen Kumar and Dr. Art Schmidt in the Department of Civil Engineering at the University of Illinois, to implement a new data collection system on the Urbana campus. The goal of this project is the deployment of sensors to provide high-resolution, semi-realtime datasets for research and education. The resulting data is published in ...

Nov. 5, 2011

By Vista Engineering / Vista Data Vision

The role of marketing and innovation management in the Finnish electrical and electronics industry

Very often in industrial companies, the role of marketing is perceived from too narrow a perspective. A more comprehensive view of marketing identifies three distinct roles of marketing: marketing as business philosophy at corporate level, marketing as strategy at business level, and marketing as tactics (marketing mix) at functional level. Thus, marketing is a synthesis of particular skills and ...

Feb. 10, 2004

By Inderscience Publishers

Piper Diagrams in Chemistry Water Analysis

Arthur M. Piper introduced the Piper diagram in 1994. It is used for studying water chemistry and quality. The Piper diagram helps in the segregation of analytical data necessary for determining the sources of the constituents dissolved in water. The applicability of the procedure is possible due to natural water having anions and cations in chemical equilibrium. The most abundant cations in ...

Oct. 21, 2020

By Esdat Environmental Data Software

We want good evacuation measures, no large seawalls!

What is the best approach to restore and protect a coastline that was hit by a Tsunami? Driven by my own involvement in mangrove restoration after the 2004 Indian Ocean Tsunami and ‘Building with Nature’ approaches with Wetlands International, I attended the event ‘Global approaches to coastal resilience’ organized by READY Asia-Pacific at the WCDRR in Sendai. In this ...

Mar. 26, 2015

By Wetlands International

Asbestos pushed in Asia as product for the poor

The executives mingled over tea and sugar cookies, and the chatter was upbeat. Their industry, they said at the conference in the Indian capital, saves lives and brings roofs, walls and pipes to some of the world's poorest people. The industry's wonder product, though, is one whose very name evokes the opposite: asbestos. A largely outlawed scourge to the developed world, it is still going ...

Aug. 12, 2014

By Associated Press

Zenrise benefit from centralized nitrogen - Case Study

ZenRise, Clinical Research specialists in Hyderabad, India, are using i-FlowLab to supply high purity nitrogen to their mass spectrometers. Name: Rajesh Kumar Suvvaru Job Title: Director & Head of Operations Company: ZenRise Clinical Research Pvt Ltd Location: Hyderabad, India i-FlowLab nitrogen generator ZenRise Clinical Research Pvt Ltd's Director and Head of Operations tells us how ...

May 28, 2018

By Peak Scientific Instruments Ltd

Recipe for Resilience – Ecosystem and climate Smart Disaster Risk Reduction

Wetlands International Panama - What are some of the “ingredients” that would make a “recipe for resilience”? Wetlands International and its programme partners in the coalition Partners for Resilience (CARE, Cordaid, Netherlands Red Cross and Red Cross/Red Crescent Climate Centre) explored this very question during a side event entitled “Sharing experiences for an ...

Mar. 19, 2015

By Wetlands International

Acting on disaster warnings: Don`t miss the human factor

We need to understand why some people act on early warnings while others ignore them, says disaster preparedness specialist Sudhir Kumar. The Great East Japan Earthquake and subsequent tsunami of 11 March 2011 challenged global ideas about responding to disasters. It showed that structural defences alone, such as breakwaters, coastal dykes and tidal barriers, cannot provide protection from ...

Oct. 17, 2012

By SciDev.Net

Protecting the Sanctity of Indigenous Foods and Cultures

Indigenous peoples inhabit more than 85 percent of the Earth’s protected areas, yet only 1 percent of the billions of dollars spent each year on philanthropy goes to indigenous peoples and the ecosystem services they support. Indigenous communities have inherited millennium-tested traditional ecological knowledge, land-based lifeways, and a holistic, interdependent relationship to the ...

Feb. 5, 2014

By Worldwatch Institute

The World’s Largest Gas to Liquids Facility Runs on Thermo Scientific SampleManager LIMS

Established by Shell and Qatar Petroleum in 2006, Pearl GTL is the largest gas to liquids facility on the planet. Gas to liquids (GTL) is the conversion of natural gas to liquid fuels and other products, including gasoil, naphtha, kerosene, normal-paraffin and lubricants. Pearl GTL has a capacity of 140,000 barrels per day of these products and 120,000 barrels per day of liquefied petroleum gas, ...

Mar. 26, 2015

By Thermo Fisher Scientific, LIMS & Laboratory Software

More Businesses Pursue Triple Bottom Line for a Sustainable Economy

New Worldwatch Institute study examines the rise of benefit corporations and other companies that prioritize people and the planet, as well as profits Washington, D.C.—As corporations of all sizes increasingly choose to monitor and report on their social and environmental impacts, a growing number of mostly small and medium-sized companies are going even further: They are volunteering to ...

Apr. 30, 2013

By Worldwatch Institute

Q&A: The IPCC’s Rajendra K. Pachauri on climate technology

As the first part of the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), which deals with the physical science of climate change, is launched this week (30 January), SciDev.Net speaks to Rajendra Kumar Pachauri, the panel’s chair, about science and the climate policy challenges ahead. Ahead of the Delhi Sustainable Development Summit 2014 in February, ...

Feb. 3, 2014

By SciDev.Net

What Is Water Scarcity?

Whether it’s from drought or lack of access, more than a billion people around the world don’t have enough clean water Acute drought conditions and dwindling natural water resources are focusing more attention on what continues to be a worldwide problem: a lack of access to fresh, potable water. Water scarcity can be defined as a lack of sufficient water, or not having access to ...

Oct. 6, 2017

By Fluence Corporation

From 450 pieces of tyre to 2 tons of 99,9 % pure rubber in 1 hour - Case Study

Recycling areas: Tyre Company name: Seder Environment Tyre Recycling Division Located: Jeddah New Landfill Site, Jeddah, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia Founded: 2011 Employees: 28 Seder Environment is part of Seder Group, which is involved in various projects in Saudi Arabia and other Middle Eastern countries. Seder Environment is involved in waste recycling and sorting projects in various ...

Mar. 25, 2019

By Eldan Recycling A/S

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