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Industrialisation, Socio-economic Externalities, and State Policy
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 254

Industrialisation, Socio-economic Externalities, and State Policy

Papers presented at a seminar during August 16-18, 1996, with special reference to Bellary District in Karnataka.

Automobile Pollution Control in Brazil
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 29

Automobile Pollution Control in Brazil

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2013
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  • Publisher: IIED

Air pollution concentrations have been rapidly increasing in the major urban areas of Brazil caused mainly by the increasing use of vehicles. In the presence of this negative externality, environmental regulation is required. Car emission control policies in Brazil have relied basically on mandatory emission standards and subsidies for specific cleaner technology resulting in substantial decrease of car emission rates. Nevertheless, car sale taxes, differentiated by vehicles' size and fuel, have also influenced car emission patterns. This paper analyzes the compliance trend of the Brazilian fleet with environmental standards between 1992 and 1997. We find that larger automobiles had the fast...

International Handbook of Disaster Research
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 2538

International Handbook of Disaster Research

​This handbook is a comprehensive source of information, analysis and directions in disaster studies. It goes beyond the oft-explored issues of management and science related to the topic and explores policies, governance, law and decision-making combined with the processes of implementation and enforcement, all the while integrating the latest science and technology updates related to the topic, such as artificial intelligence and early warning systems. It brings together studies which relate to sociology, politics and institutional economics, which work under the impact of resource availability, issues of leadership and international laws. Disasters are trans-boundary and disaster studie...

Soil Fertility
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 68

Soil Fertility

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: 2000
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  • Publisher: IIED

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Democratic Decentralization and Panchayati Raj in Contemporary India
  • Language: en

Democratic Decentralization and Panchayati Raj in Contemporary India

  • Type: Book
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  • Published: Unknown
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  • Publisher: Onlinegatha

The institution of Panchayati Raj is not new to India. It existed since earliest times. We get ample references about the Panchayats in the Manusmriti, the Arthsastra and the Mahabharata. During the Muslim rule also the system continued to operate unobstructed. With the assumption of power by the British and the adoption of policy of centralization, the Panchayats suffered a temporary setback. But soon the British realized the value of this institution and the Decentralization Commission recommended in its report in 1907. “In ignoring the village as the primary unit of local self- government, the government made the beginning with a false step. This scanty success hit her to make to introduce a system of rural self-government, is largely due to the fact that we have not built from the bottom and hence it is most desirable to constitute and develop village Panchayats for administration of certain local affairs with the villages”

Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 392

Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities

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Disaster Management for 2030 Agenda of the SDG
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 377

Disaster Management for 2030 Agenda of the SDG

This book shows how specifically each goal of Sustainable Development Goals could be incorporated in country wise developmental programmes set to transform the world. It highlights how a combination of initiatives on mitigation of disasters and a robust progress could build a resilient society. The book discusses multidimensional processes such as administrative, financial and social challenges which can mitigate disasters and help in an advancement towards SDG Goals. It highlights the embeddedness of SDGs in disaster mitigation as they tend to be linked and interdependent. By linking sustainable development to disaster mitigation one gets a strong justification for investment into preparedness as a guarantee or insurance against loss and damages due to unforeseen disasters.

CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 393

CONTEMPORARY DEBATES IN PUBLIC ADMINISTRATION

Public administration is reeling under complex challenges and pressures in the face of the changing trends in liberalization, privatization and globalization. As a pertinent area of social sciences, it is in search of a new identity in the form of theoretical bases, conceptual clarity and contextual applicability. The development of the discipline is characterized by failed, semi-developed and recycled narratives, which are unable to provide any well-defined epistemological parameters. Whatever one finds in the form of conceptual and applied growth in public administration, especially pertaining to the Third World, appears to be borrowed, imitated and implemented out of context. The discipli...