WCD report rejected

Self healing

Scientists develop a plastic that can repair itself when heated

ZAMBIA

Book notice: Hope in sight

Improving People's Lives: Lessons in Empowerment from Asia, edited by Mukul Sharma

Opportunity squandered

Survey reveals how MPs have made a thorough hash of development fund scheme

Missionary zeal

The urban renewal mission is likely to bypass or short change the urban poor

From the blurbs

India may not achieve SDG targets on child mortality: study

Of the 613 districts considered, nearly half the districts are unlikely to achieve the target of reducing deaths in newborns and under 5-year-…

Centre asks NDDB to estimate India's milk demand

The country does not know how much milk is needed despite its growth having exceeded targets

Sukhomajri's failing development model

A model Haryana village, which had pulled itself out of poverty by managing natural resources, shuns the very model of development

Growing burden

Our fanatical pursuit of GDP as the sole measure of development is only throwing up more catastrophic nightmares

Machines, not humans, still define civilisation

The notion that science and technology are the indicators of a nation's development has helped establish white superiority through the ages and …

Global resource use must be careful and fair

Environmental stress has resulted mainly from unsustainable consumption levels in poor nations because of bad land-use and degraded village …

An impressionistic view of international debt

ODIOUS DEBTS: LOOSE LENDING, CORRUPTION AND THE THIRD WORLD'S ENVIRONMENTAL LEGACY Patricia Adams Publisher: Probe International Price: $13.95

High court grants round one to railways

A high court order in favour of the Konkan railway corporation has provoked much anger and resentment among those who oppose the controversial project

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 …

'Give communities a say in tourism'

RAJIV BHARTARI, a LEAD (Leadership for Environment and Development)fellow, is building a framework for ecotourism in Uttaranchal. He tells NITIN …

A tale of two meetings

The North East Council reduced to a farce at one. Gibberish over interlinking rivers at another

'Development paradigms should match tribal culture'

SITAKANTA MAHAPATRA'S poetry got him the prestigious Jnanpith award for 1993. His poems, written in Oriya, have been translated into many Indian …

A reluctant candidate for Chile's presidency

Meet Manfred Max-Neef. Pianist, economist, eco-humanist and politician from Chile, all rolled into one. Internationally acclaimed for his concept …

"At what cost to the environment"

"The country's forest cover will be raised by five per cent during the Ninth Plan," said Suresh P Prabhu , the Union minister for …

Rising like the Phoenix

After suffering a spate of floods villagers regain environmental and economic vitality

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Who's encroaching?

Count the natural debt, too