"This book emerged from ... a symposium on 'Population, Life Support ans human Development" organized by CDEP in February 2001"--P. [ix]." Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Contents:
Population, life support, and human development / Ramprasad Sengupta and Anup Sinha -- Beyond population projections: critical issues in relation to life support and human development / Ashish Bose -- Population: a new paradigm for old and new concerns / Gita Sen -- Population and water resources in India: crucial gaps in knowledge for sustainable use in future / Jayanta Bandyopadhyay & Bidisha Mallik -- Water resource development: scarcity and conflict / A. Vaidyanathan -- Sustainable land use for foodgrain production and environmental protection / C.L. Acharya and A.K. Sharma -- Food and land use: sustainable development in India in the context of global consumption demands / Utsa Patnaik -- An alternative people based system for health care and population stabilization / N.H. Antia -- Health, health serivices, and family planning in India / Debabar Banerji -- Investment in the education sector in India for human development: the past and the future / Tapas Majumdar -- On universalisation of elementary education in India: prospects and constraints / V.N. Reddy -- Urban growth, basic amenities and waste management in India / Annapurna Shaw -- Institutional innovations for infrastructural development in India and the emerging urban scenario / Amitabh Kundu.
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