Climate change - A challenge to India's economy
Briefing paper on climate change for members of Parliament by Anil Agarwal - Calling upon policy makers to recognise India's stake in the international climate change negotiations.
Anil Agarwal
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Scientific Indian
My friend, V Nanjundiah, of the Indian Institute of Science us in Bangalore has asked me a very pertinent question: why cannot Down To Earth cover more on Indian science? I am sure it can; I
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Taking the issue Due North
What Canada wants in the UN from a forest convention is a mystery. Is it pushing a convention to protect its own economic interests in forestry?
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What's in a neem?
A lot, apparently. Neem Azadirachta indica and the I?roducts derived from it have traditionally been widely used for centuries, especially in India, for medicinal purposes and pest control. Recognising its vast potential, Western science and industry
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Getting it all wrong
All good governance systems teach us that development efforts should be cost effective and include peoples' involvement, stakeholder participation and transparency
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Shamans. mystics and doctors
Controlled scientific studies have shown that techniques like meditation can help cure depression, anxiety, diabetes, ulcers, asthma, cardiac pain and alcoholism
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Editor's Page
If India wants to promote the spirit of making donations and encourage its infant NGO sector, it, too, will have to adopt tax laws that encourage donations
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Aiding agenda
The, availability of easy foreign money has made it convenient to continue with business as usual with expensive, economically inappropriate, and socially unjust ways of doing things
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The curse of the white gold: the Aral sea crisis
This publication focusses on the Aral Sea crisis - the result of economic processes set in motion by the planners of the erstwhile Soviet Union in the 1950s. It is one of the biggest ecological disasters, second only to Chernobyl, leading to a total collapse of the socio-economic life of the people.
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Protection of nature parks: whose business?
This publication presents the proceedings of a debate on the state of the national parks and sanctuaries, and whether the people living in and around these protected areas should be involved in their management or not.
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Toxic city
Given the Indians' poor economic and nutritional conditions, it is very important that we try to optimally prevent cancer than create conditions that lead to an epidemic and then demand expensive curative facilities