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Mar 1-15, 1995
Cover Story
Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for planners to promote sustainable development. Experience in the Philippines has shown that only an elaborate community-managed accounting system can enable the community achieve environmentally-sound economic development. Drop by drop, national accounts can be developed by consolidating these community accounts
News
In the face of public pressure, Indian industry appears -- albeit dimly -- to be ready to clean up its act
What fearful paralysis of spirit is it that ails the Indian scientific establishment?
Germany's Daimler-Benz held a workshop on environment-friendly transport in the Capital
This time round, US secretary of energy Hazel O'Leary's visit to India was a successful business trip
A fresh snag hounds the controversial Sardar Sarovar Project
Interview
ALEX C TOOHEY, a chemical engineer, is the chief executive of the World Coal Institute (WCI), London. The WCI is a non-profit, non-governmental association of coal producing ent...
Science & Technology
Electric cars and scooters may soon be a reality on Indian roads
And now genetically-altered microorganisms that self-destruct once they've fulfilled their mission
A rebel sponge prefers to be a carnivore instead of filtering its food from seawater
US scientists show how plants can be used as vaccine-factories
Indian markets may soon be flooded with high-yielding hybrid seeds of mustard and rapeseed
What we can see constitutes only about 10 per cent of the universe's mass. Where is the rest hidden?
Even cattle dare not ingest the water of the Naini lake
Analysis
A recent workshop reveals that the rehabilitation of the 1993 Marathwada earthquake victims was a bloody farce
Western institutions and the United Nations are keen protagonists of natural resource accounting but it may still not be a useful policy tool for planners to promote sustainable development. Experience in the Philippines has shown that only an elaborate community-managed accounting system can enable the community achieve environmentally-sound economic development. Drop by drop, national accounts can be developed by consolidating these community accounts
Special Report
Poachers and smugglers continue to snip through the tatty net of existing Indian wildlife protection laws
The Fortnight
India passes back the buck to industrialised nations as wranglings over the Climate Change protocol continue
The forthcoming World Summit for Social Development has already polarised North-South social imperatives
Tyres that never tire are an automobile's glamourous footwear, but producing these sophisticates is an environmental nightmare
After 50 complacent years, Europe's state-of-the-art dyke system is softened for the kill by raging riverine floods
Crosscurrent
The NGO movement in South Asia has come a long way in the past 10 years. Last month, a panel discussion between some of them emphasised introspection and self-repair
Review
Grassroots
Women in 3 districts in Tamil Nadu discover how to make money and ban booze -- for the first time
A unique fishing cooperative in Bihar's Madhubani district boosts the confidence and economic independence of the local women
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