Sustainable Development

What is Sustainable Development?

Sustainable development, the buzzword in environmental circles, is largely misunderstood. It can only come about in a society which can learn from its mistakes in handling natural resources. This new column gives our readers the background of cont

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Anil Agarwal

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Ecology, Forest Conservation, India, Sustainable Development

India

Where a community maps its resources

It's a unique experiment. Three Kerala organisations are involving local communities to evolve a blueprint for development based on resource maps that they helped to draw

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, India, Kerala, Sustainable Development, Economic Development

Environment

Business sense

THE Business Council for Sustainable Development (BCSD), under the leadership of Swiss industrialist Stephan Schmidheiny, has submitted its report on environment and development Changing

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Environment, Sustainable Development

India

More miles to go for Chipko women

The Chipko movement halted commercial tree felling in UP's Chamoli district, but the women who led it are still fighting corrupt and indifferent forest officials and fund constraints to maintain the pace of development

Publication Date:

14/06/1992

Author(s): Mukul

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920615

pp:

0

Tags:

Ecology, Himalaya, Forest Personnel, Chipko Movement, Development, India, Sustainable Development, Women

Environment

Sustainable paths versus sustainable freeways in an overgrazed globe

THE last thing you would get to know from the US-based World- watch Institute's State of the World 1992 is the state of America's own environment. Instead, you get an update on the rest of

Publication Date:

30/05/1992

Author(s): Anupam Mishra

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Nuclear Wastes, GATT, United States Of America (US), Sustainable Development, Pollution

Environment

Why this magazine?

THIS magazine is not the product of a desire to capture a share of the information market. It is the product of a need that we feel within us, of a desire to fill a critical information gap. In

Publication Date:

30/05/1992

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

1

Issue:

19920531

pp:

0

Tags:

Environment, Sustainable Development, Developing Countries, Science

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