Prabhas Chandra Sinha
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This publication provides readers with a proper understanding of corruption as a social evil, particularly in India. A detailed overview of recent anti corruption movement in India and emerging major draft measures, in the form of Lokpal Bill or Jan Lokpal Bill by Sri Anna Hazare, is provided. Important international anti-corruption programmes and conventions are described. FAQs and commentaries on various global anti bribery instruments and conventions are ...
Disaster Management aims to reduce human suffering and economic losses caused by natural and technological disasters. We do this by helping the World Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disasters, and promoting the integration of disaster prevention and mitigation efforts into the range of development activities. Poorly planned development can turn a recurring natural phenomenon into a human and economic disaster. Present book “Disasters, ...
Disaster Management aims to reduce human suffering and economic losses caused by natural and technological disasters. We do this by helping the World Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disasters, and promoting the integration of disaster prevention and mitigation efforts into the range of development activities. Poorly planned development can turn a recurring natural phenomenon into a human and economic disaster. Allowing the degradation of ...
The objective of this book is to provide readers/students with an integrated understanding of the global environmental regimes for the water resources of the world, both terrestrial and marine covering the Oceans, Coast, Small Island and Wetland. The book aims to advance the interests of Oceans (incorporating 72% of the Earth’s surface); Coast (the home of 50% of the World’s population) and Islands (43% of the world’s nations are small island developing ...
Preserving contemporary environment and development has emerged as a major challenge to all nations of the world. “Guidelines for Environment and Sustainable Development†is an introductory book giving a complete overview of the existing international regime for the protection of human environment and promoting sustainable development. This book deals with the subject area of environmental guidelines in more primitive and generalistic terms, indicating its ...
Protecting the forests and forestry around the world has become a big challenge today. This book cover the most vital and immediate concerns of today's environment and tries to provide readers with global environmental guidelines with respective to climatic changes, forest management, biodiversity conservati9on, bio safety and desert protection. It covers the global framework conventions on climate change and biological diversity. The Forest Principles and Bio ...
This book deals with specific international environmental guidelines related to the protection of Ozone layer, Endangered Species and World Heritage Sites. The all important and most successful Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) is described to conserve global endangered species. Similarly, the Montreal Protocol to reduce global emission of fluorocarbons to protect the ozone layer is described, besides the ...
This book is dealing with the International guidelines related to hazards wastes, organic pollutants and their movements to various areas by different ways and means, provides readers with an integrated understanding of the global environmental regimes for hazards wastes and organic pollutants. The Basel Convention on the Control of Transboundary Movements of Hazards Wastes and their Disposal, which aims to prevent the unauthorized dumping of toxic waste in ...
Disaster Management aims to reduce human suffering and economic losses caused by natural and technological disasters. We do this by helping the World Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disasters, and promoting the integration of disaster prevention and mitigation efforts into the range of development activities. Poorly planned development can turn a recurring natural phenomenon into a human and economic disaster. Allowing the degradation of ...
Disaster Management aims to reduce human suffering and economic losses caused by natural and technological disasters. We do this by helping the World Bank provide a more strategic and rapid response to disasters, and promoting the integration of disaster prevention and mitigation efforts into the range of development activities. Poorly planned development can turn a recurring natural phenomenon into a human and economic disaster. Allowing the degradation of ...
This book gives overall picture of the "Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN),: its recent programmes, plans of action, roadmaps, protocols and global partnership initiatives, thus setting out a comprehensive future strategy for the region. The implementation of the strategy continues along these suggested guidelines for various priority sectors at national, regional and global levels. To facilitate readers. Identified. First category ...