The World Meteorological Organization’s State of the Climate in Asia 2024 report warns that the region is warming nearly twice as fast as the global average, driving more extreme weather and posing serious threats to lives, ecosystems, and economies. In 2024, Asia experienced its warmest or second warmest year on …
This paper examines 'coal consumption-GDP (gross domestic product)' and 'gas consumption-GDP' causality in India by deploying co-integration and Granger causality techniques. Augmented Dickey-Fuller tests reveal that all series viz. per capita gas consumption, after logarithmic transformation are non-stationery and individually integrated of the order one.
Stunted stunt Driven by IT, plagued by it Bangalore's growth has been exponential, both in terms of population and its urban sprawl. The problem is that its urban infrastructure hasn't grown at anything like the same rate, and development priorities have been skewed by the city's excessive reliance on it. …
bangalore has grown exponentialy in the past three decades. The growth, fuelled by it and bpo industries has brought in foreign exchange, an influx of skilled and high-priced labour, growth in hospitality, catering, rent-a-car and housing industries. This has been touted all over as an Indian success story. This success …
This book explores two principal contradictions in environmental politics in India--between conservation and large-scale development projects, and between short-term electoral politics and long-term imperatives of environmental conservation. The Great Himalayan National Park (GHNP) in Himachal Pradesh, north-western India, is home to the western Tragopan--an endangered pheasant. It shares its habitat …
With globalization fast becoming an irreversible process, it is necessary to pay increased attention to the implications for environmental sustainability. However, the so-called environmental Kuznets curve argument implies that rapid economic growth in many developing countries should be environmentally unsustainable. Environmental Sustainability addresses this dichotomy and articulates a notion of …
The World Trade Organization's (wto) Trade and Environment Committee has two main agendas since the Doha round of negotiations began in 2001: to negotiate the relationship between wto's trading rules and multilateral environmental agreements (meas), and removing trade barriers on environmental goods and services. It's a limited mandate. But the …
increasing economic growth has raised the levels of atmospheric nitrogen dioxide (no2) over the industrialised northeast China to the highest in the world, according to a new study of satellite images. no 2 levels from the ground to an altitude of 10 kilometres, are about 50 per cent higher than …
The range of ecological dynamics the Apatani manage could make a professional ecologist tizzy. But even more mind-boggling is the range of socio-political dynamics that the people of the valley deal with and yet remain distinct. Till a few decades back, the Apatani valley was cut off from the rest …
The report seeks to boldly address many critical issues confronting the health sector such as inequitable access to basic services resulting in welfare loss for the poor, the inefficiencies in the system resulting in waste and suboptimal utilization of existing resources, the poor quality and declining values, ethical norms etc. …
A Rojgar Adhikar Yatra (a journey for employment rights), through some of the 150 districts where the National Food for Work Programme (nfwp) is underway, has found that rampant corruption afflicts the programme. The findings are significant because the nfwp is touted as the forerunner to a comprehensive employment guarantee …
The Union cabinet will soon revamp the existing Northeastern Industrial Development Policy (neip). But the revision is very likely to be based on a flawed review of the existing policy. The original neip was initiated by the Union ministry of commerce and industry's department of industrial policy and promotion (dipp) …
indian farmers are neck-deep in debt. Of the 89.35 million farmer households in the country, 43.42 million (48.6 per cent) are reeling under the yoke, says a recent survey report of the National Sample Survey Organisation (nsso), under the Union ministry of statistics and programme implementation. The report was released …
chineseprime minister Wen Jiabao's four-day visit to India from April 9-12, 2005 opened hitherto unexplored vistas of friendship between the two nations, albeit driven by economic and strategic considerations. The world's most populous nations established the India-China Strategic and Cooperative Partnership for Peace and Prosperity, a giant step for improving …
On April 5, 2005 a group of ministers (gom), headed by the Union agriculture minister Sharad Pawar, cleared the draft of the Integrated Food Bill. The draft bill will now go to the union law ministry and then to the union cabinet for final approval. The Union ministry of food …
Paul Wolfowitz, deputy us defence secretary, will take over as president of the World Bank (wb) when James Wolfensohn steps down in mid-2005. The ultimate shareholders of the World Bank
