Agenda 21, formulated during the Rio Summit in June 1992, was touted as an earth saving measure by the leaders of more than 100 participatory nations. Today, five years after Rio, the same nations are asking themselves if Agenda 21 was a step in the righ

The UN has urged governments to promote sales of technology to control pollution, in a series of studies commissioned by the UN Development Programme (UNDP). One of the studies underlines the

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

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