The United Nations sponsored Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), adopted by 193 member states came into effect in January 2016. India, being one of the member states, has set up the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI) Aayog which is the nodal body responsible for facilitating and reporting on India’s progress …
The Economic Survey of India 2016-17 tabled in the parliament last month has given a sharp focus to ‘distinctive Indian demography’. It shows that India’s working age population will continue to grow for another 2-3 decades, and perhaps the growth will peak by mid 2020s. More interestingly, it further shows …
A less well known event in the history of the earth systems research is not-so-successful attempt of creating Biosphere 2 in Arizona desert in USA. The mission of Biosphere 2 was to assess whether humans were capable of building and living in self-sustaining colonies in outer space[i]. The research ended …
With a string of assembly elections scheduled throughout 2017, Indian politics is once again seeing a juggling of ideas, with every policy action bearing significant political and public significance. Social equity and environmental sustainability issues in particularly gained a lot of credence in the agenda of our political parties lately. …