Fragile States are ultimately composed of weak population; the reasons thereof may be natural, physical, political, social or otherwise. Improvement of the situation on sustainable basis is possible if the population, more particular at bottom get out of such weakness/es. Unless population does...

The Society for Research and Initiatives for Sustainable Technologies and Institute (SRISTI), based in Ahmedabad, India, is a non-governmental organisation setup to strengthen the creativity of grassroots inventors, innovators and ecopreneurs engaged in conserving biodiversity and developing...

Urban centers are drivers of economic growth. Normal principles of economics apply here and due to economies of scale, because of larger population, synergies take place. In hunger of self-interest, and if system fails to optimize benefits vis-à-vis cost, the cities become hell rather than...

Current seafood exports from India is worth over 1.85 billion US$, the government target to fetch 4 billion US$ by 2010. India has natural advantage of having long & plenty seashore, rivers, lakes, water reservoirs, skilled fishermen and farm community. The target can be achieved by suitable...

Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) is a buzz word in all public platforms, research conferences, universities, politics and media. CSR is neither new in India, nor widespread in its real sense. Few companies carried out implicitly and seldom explicitly CSR activities as part of their routine...