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Mishra, Ankita; Ray, Ranjan – Social Indicators Research, 2013
This paper uses the recent approach of multidimensional deprivation measures to provide a comprehensive and wide ranging assessment of changes to living standards in India during the period, 1992/93-2004/5. This covers the reforms and the immediate post reforms time periods. The study is the first to be based on the simultaneous use of two…
Descriptors: Educational Attainment, Living Standards, Water, Foreign Countries
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Iyengar, Radhika; Bajaj, Monisha – Comparative Education Review, 2011
This article examines approaches to environmental education in Bhopal, India. It is an attempt to understand how much environmental education as a topic has been incorporated into formal curricula. An analysis of state and national syllabi indicates a focus on conventional, natural sciences approaches to the environment, thus neglecting the social…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Textbooks, Social Sciences, Natural Sciences
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Baird, Stephen L. – Technology Teacher, 2008
This article addresses the issues and concerns about offshore oil drilling in the United States. The demand for energy is going up, not down, and for a long time, even as alternative sources of energy are developed, more oil will be needed. The strongest argument against drilling is that it could distract the country from the pursuit of…
Descriptors: Fuels, Living Standards, Energy, Foreign Countries
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Hollweg, Karen S. – Applied Environmental Education and Communication, 2009
The Centre for Environment Education (CEE) added an Industry Initiative to its portfolio of more traditional environmental education programs in 1993. This article documents the start-up and evolution of that program and the ways that businesses and CEE have worked together for a sustainable future. A specific 18-month project, in which CEE and an…
Descriptors: Environmental Education, Industry, Energy Conservation, Business
Leal Filho, Walter, Ed. – Peter Lang Frankfurt, 2011
It is widely acknowledged that sustainable development is a long-term goal, which both individuals and institutions (and countries!) need to pursue. This important theme is characterized by an intrinsic complexity, since it encompasses ecological or environmental considerations on the one hand, and economic matters, social influences and political…
Descriptors: Communities of Practice, Architectural Education, Higher Education, Environmental Education
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Revelle, Roger – Science, 1976
Descriptors: Economically Disadvantaged, Energy, Fuels, Human Resources
Black, Maggie, Ed. – UNICEF News, 1983
Included in this issue of UNICEF News are several brief articles focusing on the theme of appropriate technology. Topics discussed include (1) the improvement of family life through the scientific application of appropriate technology; (2) UNICEF and the household fuels crisis; (3) the workload of African women; (4) ways energy, food, health, and…
Descriptors: Developing Nations, Employment, Family Life, Females
Bhat, J. L., Ed.; Bandhu, Desh, Ed. – 1981
Abstracts of papers presented at the International Conference on Environmental Education are included in this document. Although title, author(s), and abstract are provided for each of the 124 entries, a table of contents and author/subject index are not included. Topics and issues addressed focus on various aspects of environmental education…
Descriptors: Abstracts, Agriculture, Course Descriptions, Ecology