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Cities in a Globalizing World: Global report on Human Settlement 2001

Towards better cities

Finally a plan to reform the concrete jungles

Simply Put: Safe place to migrate

How Chhattisgarh’s Baiga tribe secured habitat ownership in the face of eviction threats

State initially tried to ward off petition to grant habitat rights to community by saying there is no ministry-prescribed format

Conserving nature leads to higher net economic value: Study

It also pointed out that conservation and restoration did not universally provide greater net value than intensive human usage

Future cities: New challenges mean we need to reimagine the look of urban landscapes

But we must open up the opportunity to conceptualise these futures to a wider and more diverse set of people

East Africa’s Masai giraffes more endangered than previously thought; here’s why

The Great Rift Valley has divided the Masai giraffe, preventing interbreeding & exchange of genetic materials

Extreme weather, land-use change drive animal movement

A recent study says that land-use change interacts with climate to determine species redistribution

Baiga Tribes Get Habitat Rights for the first time in Independent India

Ramesh Sharma, Convener, Ekta Parishad gives an insight about the indigenous primitive tribes of India. Out of 76 primitive tribes Baigas …

When alienation ruins

Sandalwood smuggling, epitomised by Veerappan, has become a collective phenomenon involving entire villages, which even the ban on sandalwood …

Helping women irks men in Haryana district

A non-govemmental organisation attempting to help women in Haryana's and Rewari district is hampered by caste factors and male chauvinism.

Tribals solve problems through self - reliance

The Budakattu Krishikara Sangha, with its emphasis on people-oriented strategies, has improved tremendously the lot of the tribals in and around …

Poetry born of struggle

Whether the revolutionary passion of his early verse, or the more mellow vision of his later work, Jnanpith award-winner Subhas Mukhopadhyay's …

A school with an ecological curriculum

For 45 years, a school in Kausani has been inculcating ecological consciousness in hill women

For better living

To clear the persistent ambiguity governing the concept of sustainable development of urban centres, attention must be paid to present and future …

Foreclosure of a Dream?

The Adarsh Gaon Yojana was set up to empower some 300 villages in Maharashtra. After eight long years, it is yet to show results. The people …

The answers within

Swadhyay, which literally means study of the self, is a movement that has introduced realistic social change in India's rural communities

Criminal waste

Reduced to filthy, foul smelling cesspools, with mosquito larvae arawing their lazy, intricate patterns on the green surfaces, the same takes …

Rebuilding cities

JNNURM fares well

A classless enemy

The curious case of panchayats in Delhi

The Nagar Swaraj Bill will usher in decentralised governance in the city state, but what happened to rural panchayats?

Cities are good

Angel argues slowing down urbanisation will hurt the poor the most

Mumbai’s second sea link unlikely

Coastal road could be built to link Worli to Haji Ali