J S Negi
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The focuses specifically on regional strategies and cooperation regarding environmental matters which are pursued actively within the economic commission for Europe, one of the five regional commissions of the United Nations. Membership consists of 34 countries comprising all the market-economy countries of both Europe and North America as well as the European centrally planned economy countries. Indeed, for over 40 years the commission has served as a unique ...
Natural resources (land, water, biodiversity and genetic resources, biomass resources, forests, livestock and fisheries) - the very foundation of human survival, progress and prosperity, have been degrading fast, and the unprecedented pace of their erosion is one of the root causes of the agrarian crisis that the country is facing. The demographic and socio-economic pressures notwithstanding, the unmindful agricultural intensification, over use of marginal lands, ...
An environmental impact assessment describes a process, which produces a written statement to be used to guide decision making with several related functions. First, it should provide decision makers with information on the environmental consequences of proposed activities and in some cases, programmes and policies, and their alternatives. Secondly, it requires decisions to be influenced by that information. And thirdly, it provides a mechanism for ensuring the ...
The rivers, the oceans, the mountains, the forests and urban establishments are all affected by the malaise of pollution which can create problems for the survival of the humanity t large. In this view of things the United Nations has taken steps to guide the information studies in the proper maintenance of environmental nature in the respective states. United Nations has not only conducted studies but it has also provided funds to those countries which are ...
Dharmasangraha is a traditional genre of compilations of classification and technical terms. Dr. Negi has compiled this Dharmasangraha-Kosah using modern research methods, and providing references for the words and classes it comprises as well as comprehensive indices. For the present volume, Dharma terms have been supplied mainly from Buddhist schools of sciences like Abhidharma, Vinaya, Tantra, Ayurvijnana, Jyotish etc. Non-Buddhist terms have also been ...