Sustainable development is the bottomline of a new package by the UN Development programme's (UNDP) Country Cooperation Framework for Bhutan. The US $33 million-package will be used in programmes

The new US foreign policy on environment, if well implemented, should shake African nations out of a long stupor into tackling massive eco degradation in the continent

Bicycle ownership in Asia, currently more than 400 million, is growing rapidly. In India, bicycles account for 30-50 per cent of traffic on primary urban roads. The advantages of biking are as

While advances in the transport sector have mitigated humankind’s problems,

Liuminying, a small village south-west of Beijing, is an environmentalist's dreamland. It has emerged as a world-famous model of a perfect ecological village. The United Nations Environmental

The debates, diatribes and rhetoric over the concept of sustainable cities have all been met with the resounding illogic of warped priorities: Southern cities have a resource crisis and Northern cities are plagued with over consumption. In terms of globa

Herman E Daly asks, What good is a sawmill without a forest? That sure is an unconventional question coming from an American economist, who is currently a senior research scholar at the University of Maryland, having served

To clear the persistent ambiguity governing the concept of sustainable development of urban centres, attention must be paid to present and future human needs

Meeting the needs of today... economic needs: access to adequate livelihood; economic security when unemployed, ill, disabled or otherwise unable to secure a

Indigenous peoples of the world have been objects of downright apathy and brutal repression at worst, and mild tourist or academic interest at best for years. Today, they are fighting to overcome the shadows that dog their collective existence. And the wo

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