This book provides a balanced international overview of the way forward, showing how choice of materials and construction processes, response to landscape and climate, and - not to be forgotten - the involvement of users, can together solve environmental problems and produce a diverse architecture to suit human and regional needs.

This publication focusses on the Aral Sea crisis - the result of economic processes set in motion by the planners of the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1950s. It is one of the biggest ecological disasters, second only to Chernobyl, leading to a total collapse of the socio-economic life of the people.

Environmentally sustainable development is the high point of talk in almost all international fora these But a key policy question is the extent to which the existing tax and subsidy regimes

Science must contribute substantially to the development of the society as a whole in the country: this is the new policy being promoted by the government's Foundation for Research Development

I am convinced that the best way to move towards liberalisation is not just to empower entrepreneurs, but also empower local communities, this will fail in fewer cases than the present governance system does

The government of the Netherlands has pledged to churn out the funds for producing solar energy in Bhutan. The deal is a part of the bilateral sustainable development agreement signed between the

The concept of Chakriya Vikas Pranali (CVP) can roughly be translated into English as "Cyclical System of Development". As with all translations, it is a poor copy of the original meaning. The

A new development programme in Palamau in Bihar, a rich land with poor people, can set the pace for a reversal of fortune

The agonised voice of the Warli and Kokna tribes of Thane Maharashtra reach out to say, through Pradip Prabhu...

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