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Global biodiversity was one of the key issues of debate at the Rio Earth Summit in 1992, which led to the formation of two distinct blocks of "biological powers"--the north nations rich in "biotechnology", and the south nations rich in "biodiversity". The book covers a wide range of issues on biodiversity--the strategies of conservation; the causes and consequences of erosion; the global biodiversity convention and the question of ...
The present set in two volumes is the first indepth examination of determinants of nutritional status of the young children in Rajasthan through both qualitative and quantitative data. It makes a unique contribution by highlighting area specific problems and generating practical solutions. The first volume is a detailed description of nutritional status of children between the ages one to nine years in Rajasthan. At the macro level it examines the ecological, ...
The present work seeks to portray a macro picture of the capital inflow and assistance from the developed world to the reccently Formed Third World nation, Bangladesh and its impact of assistance upon it has a great relevance for the neighbouring SAARC countries specially India. Instead of being a work of pure economics, it is more of an inquiry into the political economy of Bangladesh.
The book is based on the original research of the author. The herbal vendors are "barefoot doctors" giving door to door medical service. They are descendants of primitive tribal communities of Central India who have acquired knowledge about herbal medicine from their forefathers through accumulated experience and often through experimentations upon themselves. The plants and plant products used by the herbal vendors as medicines; their biochemical ...
Lok Adalat as a part of the strategy for legal aid, introduced in the year 1985 in Rajasthan is a forum, movement and ideology which brings cheap and speedier justice to the door steps of a common man. Presently it is gaining popularity in the matter of solving a number of disputes. This study deals with organisation and functioning of Lok Adalats. The concepts, objectives, historical evolution, organisational process of the Lok Adalat are discussed here. ...
Environment has become a key issue today as human survival directly depends upon it. The future of our children will depend upon the state of environment that we leave today. All over the world "Environmentalism" has been a growing phenomenon. The Stockholm Conference of 1972 and the Rio Earth Summit of 1992 reflected the seriousness of the problem and called for an early action before the ecological disaster striked the humanity. The book covers wide ...
Study of biodiversity--the wide variety of plants, animals and microscopic life of earth upon which depends the human existence is gaining importance all over the world especially after the discovery of some "miracle food and medicinal plants from the wild" and after the realization that several valuable species were getting extinct (permanently lost) from the face of the earth even without being discovered. Only next to the atomic war there is probably ...
Globalisation is changing the logic of the nature and pattern of the Cold War Relationship among great and small powers. Due to the demise of the Soviet Union, and resultantly the end of the Cold War, a new World Order is emerging. In the Post-Cold War World, ideologies have become weak, the role and influence of states is on decline, the concept of sovereignty is under a constant attack. The primacy of economics tends to question the legitimacy as well as the ...