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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 ...

Comparative Performance of Volatility Forecasting Models in Indian Markets

Kumar, S.S.S. (Decision, 2006)

Volatility forecasting is an important area of research to financial markets and lot of effort has been expended in improving volatility models since better forecasts translates into better pricing of options and better ...

Analyzing determinants of value creation in domestic and cross border acquisitions in India

Reena, Kohli; Mann, Bikram Jit Singh (Elsevier, 2012)

The present study seeks to assess the acquiring company announcement gains, and determinants thereof, in domestic and cross border acquisitions in India. For this purpose, 268 acquisitions comprising of 202 cross border ...

Financing of Afforestation of Wastelands

Balooni, Kulbhushan (Sardar Patel University, 1999)

Why Local Resources Management Institutions Decline: A Comparative Analysis of Van (Forest) Panchayats and Forest Protection Committees in India

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Ballabh, Vishwa*; Dave, Shibani* (Elsevier Science Ltd, World Development, 2002)

Building and nurturing institutions are most challenging tasks in any development work. In this paper an attempt has been made to understand the rise and fall of institutions involved in the management of forest resources. ...

Tree plantation for restoration of degraded lands and greening of India: A case study of the tree growers' cooperatives

Balooni, Kulbhushan; Singh, K.* (Elsavier Science, Natural Resources Forum, 2001)

India has over 100 m ha (million hectares)of village common lands. De jure, these lands are owned by the state but defacto, they are used in common by villagers. Most of the village commons are degraded and denuded and are ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

A goal programming model for paper recycling system

Pati, Rupesh Kumar; Vrat, Prem; Kumar, Pradeep (Elsevier: Science Direct, 2006-11-16)

The conflict between economic optimization and environmental protection has received wide attention in recent research programs for waste management system planning. This has also resulted in a set of new waste management ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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