Politics
People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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People-centred governance and decision-making, ensuring accountability and transparency
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This section features initiatives and approaches towards people-centred governance and decision-making, with direct participation, and based on principles of social and environmental justice. This includes initiatives attempting to realize local non-hierarchical systems of decision-making in urban and rural areas, and linkages of these to each other at bio-cultural levels. This would also include collectives or communities that raise non-party political concerns at the local level and beyond, as well as initiatives that enhance accountability and transparency of political bodies. It will include alternative policy frameworks that are based on or promote the alternative economies featured elsewhere on this site, such as meaningful practices and concepts of well-being, instead of the mainstream development model which focuses on economic growth.
Manipur: a statement of concern and suggestions for peaceful resolution
Our response to the Manipur crisis is based on the fundamental principles of peace and of the wellbeing of all people and of the earth and all its life.
Crisis in India’s bread basket
How agriculture, capital and corporate investment have reshaped Indian Punjab, and brought about its current precarity
पानी को सहेजने की परम्परा (In Hindi)
पानी सरीखे बुनियादी संसाधन को लेकर क्या किया जाए?
TRANSITION TOWN MOVEMENT
It is an initiative or model that refers to grassroots community projects. The aim is to create the means for sustainable self-sufficiency at the local level to reduce the potential effects of peak oil, climate destruction, and economic instability.
Can quick-fix solutions address India’s growing water woes?
Resistance to such destructive projects by helping the communities and their organisations fight them and developing alternatives through research and capacity building should be seen as part of our interventions or engagement in the urban space.
For a better Bengaluru: Various solutions discussed at citizens’ meet-up
Through the exchange of concerns, brainstorming solutions, and emphasising citizen-authority cooperation, the event demonstrated how hypothetical ideas can become a reality.
भारत का वैकल्पिक भविष्य: कुछ झलक (In Hindi)
यह दो लेख ‘ऑल्टेर्नेटिव फ्युचर्स: इन्डिया अन्शैकल्ड’ किताब जो २०१७ में छपी थी, से लिये व अनुवादित किये गये हैं।
Facilitating progress towards a successful blue economy
Marine Spatial Planning (MSP) and Ocean Accounting (OA) are both important tools in promoting sustainable blue economy; both are on the anvil in India.
हरियाली से स्वावलंबी बनता गांव (In Hindi)
पेड़ लगाने, जल संरक्षण, जैविक खेती इत्यादि काम करने से यह विस्थापित गांव आत्मनिर्भर बन रहा है|
Gandhi’s Constitution for a post-industrial civilization
Shriman Narayan Agarwal wrote Gandhi's Constitution (1945-46); the search for new 'economy of friendship', 'eco friendly appropriate technologies' was essential.