Industry

 Brain dead

When pencils and paints lead to lower IQ

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
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Industry

 Children of a lesser god

Children don t have a voice. They can t lobby or fight governments. The initiative lies with India s medical establishment and the civil society

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14/06/2002
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Industry

 Soft Target

Children are bearing the brunt of environmental degradation. Across the class divide, they are eating, drinking and breathing poison. And their special bodies make them most vulnerable to a host of diseases

Publication Date: 
14/06/2002
Pranay Lal, Sarita Bahl
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Poverty

 Bloated cities

The world's cities are burgeoning. Fifty years ago, New York was the only metropolis with a population of more than10 million. Today there are 19 such cities. At present, some three billion people

Publication Date: 
30/05/2002
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Development, Urbanisation, Population Trends, UN, New York
Biodiversity

 Cities in a Globalizing World: Global report on Human Settlement 2001

GLOBALISATION is no longer considered profanation. Today urbanisation and globalisation have to work in tandem, bringing in information, and consequently, opportunity. This study was triggered

Publication Date: 
29/04/2002
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Habitat, Urbanisation, Garbage, Philippines, Globalisation
Water Resources

 Programme plugged

Urban rainwater harvesting will require a strategy that has different components. We have to recognise that just passing a law is not enough

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
Anil Agarwal
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Groundwater, Water Management, Water Conservation, Water Harvesting, Water Demand, Urbanisation, Architecture, Urban Waterlogging, Legislation, Supreme Court, Governance, Germany, India, Delhi
Air Pollution

 Owning the road

Cities without cars, pollution and traffic. A movement is spreading across Europe to drive cars out. People are beginning to say no to cars

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Air Pollution

 More dreams sans cars

From a loose concept to a concrete movement, the idea of the car free city has evolved gradually

Publication Date: 
14/07/2001
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Air Pollution

 Hindustan motors

Can India ever have car free centres?

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14/07/2001
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Industry

 WATER SCARCITY

Ground water levels in Kathmandu , Nepal's capital , are falling because of increasing industrialisation and urbanisation.This was stated in the State of Environment Nepal 2001report , which has been

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
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Water Resources, Groundwater, Water Demand, Drinking Water, Urbanisation, Industry, NGO, Kathmandu

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