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Greening India’s growth through Alternative Technologies

India is one of the fastest growing economy in the world. It has in fact reached a growth of 7.5% during the period January-March of 2015 as compared to China’s 7%. This has by far been quite impressive considering the economic slowdown globally over the last couple of years and …

Harnessing S & T: The Political-Economies of Technology and the Sciences in India’s Policymaking

The traverse of ideas, rooted in the natural sciences, from brains-to-bazaars, or the spread of their ubiquity, or their application in the service of a societal need, is far from a linear process. The instruments of State policy that influence the speed and direction of the processes at play are …

New Economy Paradigm to achieve Sustainable Development Goals

A popular TED talk by the founder and promoter of the Social Progress Index, describes the potential for achieving the very ambitious and complex set of 17 Sustainable Development Goals laid out in the 2030 Global Sustainable Development Agenda within the desired 15 years. And that, without increasing “GDP growth”. …

Vision of Watershed Development

Agriculture plays a vital role in developing India’s economy. Over 58 per cent of the rural households depend on agriculture as their principal means of livelihood Agriculture along with fisheries and forestry, which contributes largest to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP). Sustainable agriculture integrates three main goals-Environmental health, Economic profitability, …

INVESTING IN NATURE IS THE RIGHT WAY TO CREATE A WIN-WIN SITUATION FOR ECONOMY AND ENVIRONMENT

The benefits that human populations gain from healthy and functioning ecosystems are vast. Clean drinking water filtered by forests, carbon stored in plants or soil, crop pollination by wild insects and pharmaceutical uses of plants are just a few examples of services humans usually receive for free. A recent wave …