Sustainable Development

  
 

The International Journal - Sustainable Development

Is a major international vehicle for interchange of scientific information and analysis, catering to the needs of the global Environment and Development community and of decision-makers at all levels. It serves to provide better, more accurate, and timely information on emerging issues of environment and development, to be used in designing responses to them. It facilitates access to better knowledge of the resource-base, natural and social processes and human aspirations, as a means to dealing with the immediate problems of global change, desertification and deforestation, rehabilitation, fulfillment of basic needs and other demographic and social issues which need to be tackled with the most appropriate investments and policies.

The dilemma faced by decision-makers in their effort to devise sustainable policies is compounded by the often conflicting advice they receive from their technical advisors, the lack of validation of information available to them, and the time lags between decisions and their impact. Although many political decisions are taken for reasons other than their purely scientific merit, more reliable and timely information helps in making them more tuned to the needs of sustainability.

The scientists, on the other hand, have had a tendency to work on issues that are of intrinsic scientific interest, but often quite abstract, not necessarily of direct applicability or relevance to the needs of decision-makers, or the community at large.

The Journal helps to :

1. Determine both the critical and available scientific data and information required to improve incorporation of environmental considerations into strategic-level development planning.

2. Evaluate and further develop the current and potential use of existing technologies and institutions to contribute to sustainable development.

3. Increase the influence of scientific information in the development planning process.

4. Harmonize the needs of Sustainable Conservation and Large, Medium and Small scale industrial development.

Regular Features

  • Editorial and Guest Editorial
  • Articles
  • Education
  • Reviews of books, Journals and Reports.
  • Who’s Who Gallery of Environment and Development
  • Views and Communication
  • Breakthrough Briefs: Environment, New Technologies, Science and Industrial
  • Application: The Positive Horizon
  • Issues and Events
  • conference Up-date
  • End-Piece

Potential Readership

Since the Journal presents state-of-the-art information in a manner understandable to the educated non-technical reader, and aims at communicating the issues underlying sustainable development, through deady written and illustrated articles, its subscribers include:

  • academic and field research scientists
  • engineers and technologists
  • government planners and policy makers
  • corporate decision-makers
  • NGOs and grass-roots organisations
  • the educated public and the community at large.

 

Editorial Board

Professor Franscesco di Castri, Italy

Dr. Gilberto C. Gallopin, Argentina

Dr. T.N. Khoshoo, India

Mr. Liberty Mhlanga, Zimbabwe

Dr. Ahmed I. Naguib, Egypt

 

Chief Editor

Hari Dang Padma Shri

Member, Environmental Appraisail Committee for Industrial Projects Ministry of Environment & Forests Government of India

Registered under Societies Registration Act, 1860; No. : S 20355 and Foreign Contribution (Regulation) Act, 1976; No. : 231650628

 

The Society for Technology & Action for SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT has generated & is pursuing the following Projects:

1. The Quarterly International Journal of SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT.

2. International Voluntary People's Private Initiative for Global Action for Environment, Development, Women & Population: Field Centres for Environment and Development in Rajasthan, Haryana and Uttar Pradesh (Landour, Mussoorie in the Garhwal Himalaya).

3. Project for the Rediscovery of the Mountain Quail (Garhwal Himalayas).

4. Himalayan Wild Life Research Project: The Snow Leopard and its Prey.

5. Sustainable Biodiversity Conservation: Forests, Wildlands, Commons & Wildlife as Renewable Natural Resources.

6. Environment, Development & Population: Breaking Through The Vicious Circle.

7. Visitor-Impact and the Himalayan Environment: (Development, Deforestation and Demographic Stress).

8. Source Book of Sustainable Development.

9. Policies of the Nations: Environment & Development.

10. Planning for Sustainable Tourism.

11. Alternative, Integrated, Indigenous and Holistic Medical Systems.

12. Reafforestation and Eco-Development of the Aravali Hills in Delhi, Haryana and Rajasthan.

13. The Future of the Tiger.

 

The IJSD Editorial & Research Panel of 34 members, located in 14 countries, helps by providing inputs arid writing Briefs and Reports. .

The International Forum for Sustainable Development with 60 eminent Scholars and versatile Scientists and Professionals from 24 countries provides the foundation of the Society for Technology & Action for Sustainable Development. which publishes the Journal. The Forum is growing in coverage and membership.

The IJSD : T ASD Technical Advisory Board, a Specialist Group of 30 members, mainly from SAARC countries, provides peer-group reviews and advice to the publications, and the Projects of Technology & Action for Sustainable Development.

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