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Democracia y Madre Tierra para Vivir Bien
Written by Lucia Querejazu
Abstract: On October 15th 2012 president Evo Morales enacted the Law of Mother Earth and Integral Development to Live Well. The aim of the law is to protect natural resources, finding a balance between progress and preservation and also to enable the development of diverse forms of production in Bolivian […]
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Creating a Common Future: The Asian–European Young Leaders Forum-Day 1
Written by Anuja Upadhyay
“One can be a senior leader at a very young age and a young leader at an advanced age.…so age is not a determining factor for participating in such a Forum” Indeed, the above Forum on Demographic Change, Economic Growth and Social Inclusion, organized to see how politics and business […]
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Why They Are Afraid
Written by The Singapore Globalist
Barely a week into London’s post-Olympic stupor, before the stardust had settled, a lanky, middle-aged man emerged on the ground-floor balcony of a white stucco-fronted, red-brick building on Hans Crescent, Knightsbridge. The flowing snowy hair had been replaced by a crew cut, but there was no mistaking the body language—this […]
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BRICS Reports: When The State Fails
Written by Masha Egupova
This article is part of a cooperation between Future Challenges and the Sustainable Governance Indicators (SGI). SGI’s new study “Change Ahead? Sustainable Governance in the BRICS” examines policy making in Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa. We’ve asked five of our bloggers to tell us what they think about the reports. On environmental issues, […]
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“Nature has enough for our need but not for our greed”
Written by Rahulkumar
If tens of thousands of people, many of them women, are walking hundreds of miles from Gwalior in central India, to Delhi, the seat of government power, there must be an excellent reason why they are subjecting themselves to such hardship. After all, the other memorable protest march in India […]
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Kathmandu’s Rivers Under Pressure
Written by Bhumika Ghimire
Data from the 2011 census shows that Nepal’s Kathmandu capital district recorded an almost 61% growth in population. In the absence of any proper planning and policies for the sustainable distribution of resources, this huge jump in demographics has put a further strain on natural resources such as the valley’s […]
