MDGs: traversing the distance

Climate change and human well-being

Meeting energy requirements: a development essence

Prudent use of natural resources: the basis for sustainable development

Technology for the poor

States in India: evaluation of sustainable practices and programmes

Africa: a development imperative

Water: the need for integrated water resource management systems

 

MDGs: traversing the distance
- Distance to goals: implementing the MDGs
- Conflicts and wars: furthering the MDG threshold?
- Institutional prerequisites for meeting the MDGs
- Partnerships for sustainable solutions: involving the local community
- The role of NGOs in the development process
- Financing the MDGs

 

Climate change and human well-being
- Climatic stresses: potential impact on the livelihoods of the vulnerable
- Impacts of climate change on food security concerns
- Human disease and climate change: altered distribution and transmission patterns
- Clean development mechanisms: an instrument of sustainable development?
- The economics of mitigating and adapting to climate change

 

Meeting energy requirements: a development essence
- Energy: the missing MDG
- Impact of rising oil prices on the MDGs
- Harnessing locally available and environmentally friendly renewable energy technologies for rural electrification
- Biofuels: a viable alternative?
- Exploiting the energy in nature: wind, water, and sun
- The efficient use of energy: a developing-country imperative

 

Prudent use of natural resources: the basis for sustainable development
- The environment as a natural ally for the poor and the hungry
- Equitable access to water resources for a diseasefree and productive populace
- Disappearing forests: implications at both local and global levels
- Soil erosion: a threat to agrarian productivity and livelihoods
- Air quality and a productive work force: a correlation?
- Mobilizing local institutions to protect the natural environment

 

Technology for the poor
- Science and technology as an underlying premise for facing the challenge of poverty
- Collaborative R&D: tailoring innovations and adaptations to local requirements
- Making technological solutions accessible and affordable
- Home-grown solutions: technological innovations on the field
- The role of corporate social responsibility in innovating and helping the poor in adapting
- Responsibility of the developed world in allowing technology to permeate to less-developed countries

 

States in India: evaluation of sustainable practices and programmes
- From economic development to sustainable development
- Sustainability in practice
- Managing the natural resource base: social, environmental, and policy dimensions
- Panchayati Raj: key to local development initiatives
- Engendering development initiatives: a holistic model of sustainability

 

Africa: a development imperative
- Conflicts in Africa: setting the clock of progress backwards
- HIV-AIDS in Africa: wiping out entire generations
- Delivering health care and education: best practices in the field
- Afforestation programmes in Africa to combat desertification
- Development aid in Africa: sources and patterns
- Multilateral capacity building in Africa: empowering initiatives

 

Water: the need for integrated water resource management systems
- Watershed protection: vital for long-term water security
- Public–private partnerships: a bid to make water management more efficient
- Decentralized systems for waste water management: catering to surface realities
- Conflict resolutions in the water sector: a resource beyond political boundaries
- The real-time analysis of water resources: managing the extremes of floods and droughts