'Avoiding controversy is crucial for the GEF'

Mostafa K Tolba , has been an influential figure in the global environmental arena, and has monitored the state of the world's environment. …

Needed: a new yardstick

Gross National Product may be an inadequate measure of economic activity when environmental damage occurs

Safe food?

The draft bill promises to be transparent. Yet, the Food Authority has a lot of discretion in this respect

Myth of eternity

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A third of businesses in South Asia not in operation amid COVID-19 pandemic: World Bank

Firms in South Asia witnessed an overall sales decline of 64%

Two-nation theory

Mayhem in Arunachal

Talking about air

A tale of two districts

Why is Jhabua, and not kalahandi, a success story?

SOME HOPES AND LOTS OF FEAR

THE message of the citizens' fifth report on the state of india's environment

Health of developing nations

Ecofriendly lubricants

Book notice: Hope in sight

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

Steep lack

Indian lac production has hit an all-time low. RICHARD MAHAPATRA seeks remedies

Seeds of ruin

Indian farmers grapple with debt as economy grows

Two Karnatakas: North-south divide hampers state’s economic, social development

Concentration of development in a few urban centres of the south creates excessive pressure on the region’s resources, hampering the …

The far side

If the world is serious about addressing climate change it will have to immediately start moving out of fossil fuel technologies.

‘India budget weak in public participation; limited in transparency’

The country’s performance in terms of public participation and budget oversight by the legislature was rated “weak” in the survey

Growing burden

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

Stumbling along on the road to green

A documentary telecast on Rajiv Gandhi's 50th birth anniversary examines the late Prime Minister's environmental initiatives, but finds the …

Incorporating social welfare in national planning

FOUNDATIONS OF INDIA'S POLITICAL ECONOMY: TOWARDS AN AGENDA FOR THE 1990S Edited by Subroto Roy and William James . Publisher: Sage Publications,…

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 …

The utopian trap

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT AND ENVIRONMENT: A CASE STUDY OF INDIA Edited by Kartik C Roy, Clement A Tisdell and Raj Kumar Sen Publisher: Oxford …

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 …

Future in the past

FUTURE OF PROGRESS: REFLECTIONS ON ENVIRONMENT AND DEVELOPMENT Edited by Vandana Shiva, Helena Norberg-Hodge, Edward Goldsmith and Martin Khor …