This book sets out the actions that could transform the lives of hundreds of millions of people, in particular the poor people and make a planet a better and safer place for our children and their children. It spells out what needs to be done to achieve key targets for national development. Following a series of summit meetings held by the apex international organisations over the past twenty years, the developmental targets have been agreed by all the participant countries in relation of poverty reduction and sustainable development.This book introduced and discusses the targets for development in terms of economic well being, social and human development, environmental sustainability and regeneration, scope for achieving the development targets, the seven habitat agenda commitments, the impact of urbanisation, rural and urban livelihoods, institutional and political challenges, effective local and national action, e.g. population stabliisation nutrition, water ans sanitation, health, women children and old aged persons protection, mechanism for development initiatives, guiding principles or strategy and its priorities. About Author : Prof. A K Shrivastava is chairman of the Council for Training and Research in Ecology and Environment New Delhi.The CTREE, founded by Prof. Shrivastava, structured "Environment Auditing Environemnt Impact Assessment in a course frame, for the first time in India. The course was inaugurated in the year 98 by then then Minister of Environment and Forests, Government of India Sri Suresh Prabhu.Under the academic guidance of Prof. Shrivastavas, more than one hundred and sixty participants were imparted short term training programme in the stream of Environment Auditing and Environment Impact Assessment, among those corporate executives, environmental scientists and engineers, corporate bodies, seniro forest officers and agriculturists can be underlined. Contents : PrefaceAcknowledgementsSustainable DevelopmentEconomic GrowthHealth Aspects of Sustainable DevelopmentThe Theory and Practice of Sustainable Development in European Union PerspectivesWater resoruces and their managementItnernational Sustainable DevelopmentAppendixIndex
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