Download or read book Bridging the Communication Gap in Science and Technology written by Pallava Bagla and published by Springer. This book was released on 2017-02-17 with total page 331 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This first-of-a-kind volume provides a snapshot of existing science communication policy and practice in India across different S&T sectors, and offers solutions to building effective communication. It provides an understanding on how to avoid societal clashes in situations when science meets the public in these sectors. The editors and contributors argue that effective S&T communication leads not only to a more informed public but also benefits research itself, and in a changing society like India this is a crucial element related to good governance and policy making. In this volume, experienced masters of the craft provide practical solutions to making S&T communication more effective in a vast democracy like India, which has complex issues related to literacy levels, diverse languages, varying political will, reach, and resources. Through, discussions on cases of creating information modules for the public on the Internet, television and radio, social media, as well a s traditional ways of outreach like people’s science movements, holding popular science events, and fairs, the volume provides highly valuable directions on how developing countries with low resources and complex populations can communicate S&T research to the public and bridge communication gaps. This volume will interest researchers from science, social science, mass communication and public relations departments, journalists, as well as practitioners and policy makers from government and non-government institutions involved in S&T policy, practice and communication and people who want to understand the complex S&T landscape of India.

Download or read book What Has Nature Ever Done For Us written by Tony Juniper and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2013-01-10 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Indian vultures to Chinese bees, Nature provides the 'natural services' that keep the economy going. From the recycling miracles in the soil; an army of predators ridding us of unwanted pests; an abundance of life creating a genetic codebook that underpins our food, pharmaceutical industries and much more, it has been estimated that these and other services are each year worth about double global GDP. Yet we take most of Nature's services for granted, imagining them free and limitless ... until they suddenly switch off. This is a book full of immediate, impactful stories, containing both warnings (such as in the tale of India's vultures, killed off by drugs given to cattle, leading to an epidemic of rabies) but also the positive (how birds protect fruit harvests, coral reefs protect coasts from storms and how the rainforests absorb billions of tonnes of carbon released from cars and power stations). Tony Juniper's book will change whole way you think about life, the planet and the economy

Download or read book Debating Nature s Value written by Victor Anderson and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-21 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of 'Natural Capital' has come to play a central role in current debates about biodiversity and nature conservation. It implies an approach to the natural world based on the valuation of places and species in terms of money. This is, in a variety of ways, both attractive and problematic. This edited collection comprehensively discusses the issues raised by the concept of 'Natural Capital', with contributors presenting not only arguments for and against the widespread adoption of the idea, but also viewpoints arguing for nuanced, pragmatic and middle-ground positions.

Download or read book From Care to Action written by Martin W. Holdgate and published by Kogan Page. This book was released on 1996 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Sir Martin Holdgate brings his unrivalled experience to the task of examining the world's progress towards a sustainable future, looking at developments since Caring for the Earth and the 1992 Earth Summit, and explaining what now needs to be done.

Download or read book Mobilizing Technology for World Development written by Jairam Ramesh and published by Praeger. This book was released on 1979-07 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: SCOTT (Copy 1): From the John Holmes Library Collection.

Download or read book Enron Blowout written by Prabir Purkayastha and published by Leftword. This book was released on 2002 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With reference to corrupt practices of Enron Corp., multinational company while on Dabhol Project and its effect on energy industries and government policies in Maharashtra, India.

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Download or read book Poverty and Development written by Tim Allen and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2000-01-06 with total page 572 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this immensely successful textbook will help students of development economics to see through simplistic analyses and solutions to an understanding of what is perhaps the world's most complex and pressing problem area. Each chapter, written by a specialist in the field, includes discussion questions and chapter summaries, and is generously illustrated with diagrams, tables and photographs.Contents:Part 1: Conceptions of Poverty and Development 1. Poverty and the 'end of development'--Alan Thomas 2. Meanings and Views of Development--Alan Thomas Part 2: A World of Problems? 3. Understanding Famine and Hunger--Ben Crow 4. Diseases of Poverty--Gordon Wilson and Melissa Parker5. Unemployment and Making a Living--David Wield and Joanna Chattaway6. Is the World Over-populated?--Tom Hewitt and Ines Smyth7. Environmental Degradation and Sustainability--Phillip Woodhouse8. A World at War--Tim Allen9. Agencies of Development--Alan Thomas and Tim Allen Part 3: The Great Transformation? 10. Diversity in Pre-Capitalist Societies--Janet Bujra11. Colonialism, Capitalism, Development--Henry Bernstein12. The Power of Colonial States--David Potter 13. Half a Century of Development--Tom Hewitt14. Socialist Models of Development--Andy Kilminster15. The Second 'Great Transformation'? Capitalism at the end of the Twentieth Century--John Harriss Part 4: Understanding Development Now 16. Sustainable Globalization? The Global Politics of Development and Exclusion in the New World Order--Anthony McGrew 17. Democratization,'Good Governance' and Development--David Potter 18. Rethinking Gender Matters in Development--Ruth Pearson19. Technology, Poverty and Development--Gordon Wilson and Richard Heeks20. Life in the Cities--Jo Beale21. Taking Culture Seriously--Tim AllenPart 5: The Future of Development 22. Genetic Engineering of Development? Myths and possibilities--Joanna Chataway, Les Levidow and Susan Carr23. The New Politics of Identity--Tim Allen and John Eade24. Industrialization and Development: Prospects and Dilemmas--Joanna Chataway and Tim Allen

Download or read book Making Sense of Chindia written by Jairam Ramesh and published by . This book was released on 2005 with total page 154 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presenting an overview of current and future geopolitical interactions between India and China, this series of essays addresses the huge potential for trade and other forms of exchange that exists between the two countries. Essay topics address continuing security concerns, the issue of democracy in China, and the ongoing battle against HIV/AIDS in the context of two complementary, competitive, and fast-growing economies.

Download or read book Contested Nature written by Steven R. Brechin and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 339 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How can the international conservation movement protect biological diversity, while at the same time safeguarding the rights and fulfilling the needs of people, particularly the poor? Contested Nature argues that to be successful in the long-term, social justice and biological conservation must go hand in hand. The protection of nature is a complex social enterprise, and much more a process of politics, and of human organization, than ecology. Although this political complexity is recognized by practitioners, it rarely enters into the problem analyses that inform conservation policy. Structured around conceptual chapters and supporting case studies that examine the politics of conservation in specific contexts, the book shows that pursuing social justice enhances biodiversity conservation rather than diminishing it, and that the fate of local peoples and that of conservation are completely intertwined.

Download or read book Watershed Management and Sustainable Development written by K. Gopal Iyer and published by Kanishka Publishers. This book was released on 2005 with total page 570 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Papers presented at the National Workshop on Community Participation in Watershed Management held at Chandigarh.

Download or read book The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions written by Handa Abidin and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-07-14 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In The Protection of Indigenous Peoples and Reduction of Forest Carbon Emissions, Handa Abidin identifies three main approaches that can be used by indigenous peoples to protect their rights in the context of REDD-plus. Further, he discusses how the available protection for indigenous peoples in the context of REDD-plus is currently insufficient to quickly address cases where the rights of indigenous peoples have been violated through REDD-plus activities. Abidin recommends the establishment of a committee and a panel on REDD-plus that could convey greater benefits to the context of REDD-plus and indigenous peoples, as well as to wider contexts such as climate change, human rights, and international law.

Download or read book Communicating Risks written by Stig Arne Nohrstedt and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Globalization and conflicts have become major issues.