Urban Planning & Development

Many programmes have been initiated to ameliorate the problems of rural areas which range from those of regional development to the issues of poverty alleviation. The recent concern for environment has enacted a necessity for a sustainable approach wherein a subdued technology has to play the role o... More

How can facilitators be used to enable people's participation in development processes and projects? This book presents the experiences of facilitators from a variety of settings. It combines their conceptual thinking with practical how-to' hints for successful participatory projects.... More

Rural Development has been one of the few areas which have been sidelined inspite of high prioritisation. The book intends to initiate a discussion towards holism in the approach to rural development. The concept of rural development if it had been synthesised with self-sustainment and holistic tech... More

This book analyses the problem of the increasing political exclusion of ethnic, caste and gender groups in democratic Nepal and discusses its consequences for democracy and the stability of the country. While outlining alternative democratic institutions and proposing specific institutions that can ... More

This book analyses the problem of the increasing political exclusion of ethnic, caste and gender groups in democratic Nepal and discusses its consequences for democracy and the stability of the country. While outlining alternative democratic institutions and proposing specific institutions that can ... More

Despite decades of governmental effort and large-scale expenditure on development, the lot of the world's underprivileged remains largely dismal. The failure of state-sponsored development has prompted many in recent years to call for a closer collaboration between public and private sectors. Even t... More

Gandhinagar joins the historian’s other two volumes, on Chandigarh and Bhubaneswar, in tracing India’s efforts to establish its twentieth–century architectural identity. In this volume Kalia recounts India’s progression through precolonial, British, modern, and postmodern th... More

Analyzing the new directions that subdisciplines of economics have taken in the face of modern economic challenges, these essays represent invention and discovery in the areas of information, macroeconomics and public policies, international trade and development, finance, business, contracts, law, ... More

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How can facilitators be used to enable people's participation in development processes and projects? This book presents the experiences of facilitators from a variety of settings. It combines their conceptual thinking with practical how-to' hints for successful participatory projects.How can facilit... More

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Joining previous editions on other Indian states, this report focuses on the hill state of Himachal Pradesh, analyzing the entire gamut of development issues of interest to businesses, NGOs, research organization, and policy makers. It contains rich state- and sub-state-level data on various sectors... More

An intact nature, cultural diversity, personal contacts andmutual understanding are the foundations of an eventful, interesting and viabletourism. Sustainable tourism can help to balance the economies of richer andpoorer regions, to maintain public infrastructure and consequently to improvethe quali... More

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Policy-relevant and up-to-date, Rural Development deals systematically with all aspects of socioeconomic rural development, using India as a case study. The Second Edition includes an integrated treatment of the principles, policies and management of rural development; new research and statistical d... More

This book argues that despite constitutional provisions and directives, India's record on human development has been woefully inadequate. The author argues that the state's failure is due to entrenched traditional hierarchical values of superordination and subordination in both the social and admini... More

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