{"product_id":"economic-developments-in-india-volume-203-copy","title":"To Choose Our Future","description":"\u003ch2 class=\"d_normalheder\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Book\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more\"\u003e\n\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eSince its birth in 1947, India has made enormous progress. More people than ever before in our history have longer, healthier and more fulfilling lives. Rapid gains in agriculture, industry, energy production and infrastructure have brought the benefits of modern science to a large segment of the population. And our economy now makes available to our growing middle class comforts and possibilities that they could never have dreamt of at the time of our tryst with destiny.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eYet, we also have more people who are poor, hungry and deprived than ever before. And the environmental resources – the soils, the rivers, the aquifers, the forests - on which they depend are rapidly degenerating, leaving more and more people subsisting on less and less. There is growing evidence that the environmental and resource costs being paid by the nation are eating more and more heavily into the benefits that we are getting from the present patterns of development.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eTo Choose Our Future describes alternative development strategies that can enable us to pass on to our children – all our nation’s children - a more prosperous, vibrant and sustainable India than today. In looking at the various options we have for how our nation will be when it is 100 years old. It draws upon lessons from 30 years of work on sustainable national development, led by Development Alternatives under the Chairmanship of Dr. Ashok Khosla. The book presents some basic scenarios of the future to enable the people and decision makers of our country consciously to make better informed choices among possible pathways that will lead to sustainable outcomes in the least possible time – for the greatest common benefit, and at least overall cost.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe book identifies the single most important priority for India today: creating sustainable livelihoods on a large scale.\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"morecontent\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"d_normalheder\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"d_normalheder\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003eAbout the Author(s) \/ Editor(s)\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eChairman of the Development Alternatives Group, a social enterprise set up in New Delhi in 1982 that designs and markets socially relevant, commercially viable and environmentally friendly technologies.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAfter post-graduate degrees in natural sciences from Cambridge and experimental physics from Harvard, Ashok Khosla became Director of the Indian Government’s first Environment Office in 1972 and then Director of Infoterra in UNEP in 1976.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eCurrently, Co-Chair of the UN’s International Resource Panel. Earlier, he was President of the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and of the Club of Rome.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eAshok has been a member of the Government of India’s National Security Advisory Board and Scientific Advisory Council to the Cabinet and was awarded the OBE by the UK Government, the UN Sasakawa Environment Prize by the UN, the Zayed International Environment Prize by the United Emirates Government, the Duke of Edinburgh Medal by WWF and the Award for Outstanding Social Entrepreneur by the Schwab Foundation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"morecontent\"\u003e\u003cspan\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e \u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"more\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"morecontent\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ch2 class=\"glossymenu\"\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"accordsuffix\"\u003eContents in Detail\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cspan class=\"accordsuffix\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\n\u003c\/h2\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"glossymenu\"\u003e\n\u003ca class=\"menuitem submenuheader\" href=\"https:\/\/academicfoundation.org\/#\"\u003e\u003cspan class=\"accordsuffix\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\n\u003cdiv class=\"submenu\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e1.Our Guiding Principles\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   The Panscheel of Development Alternatives\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e2.The Present We Have\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   India...Pulling together or pushing apart?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e3.Alternative Pathways\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   The future is ours to choose\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e4.Transitions for a Sustainable Future\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e   Vision into\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e\n\u003ctable width=\"100%\" style=\"width: 100.707%; height: 85px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctbody\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 21.25px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 51.5957%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003ePublisher\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 48.0496%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003eAF Press\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 21.25px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 51.5957%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003ePublication Date\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 48.0496%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003e2015\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 21.25px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 51.5957%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003eNumber of Pages\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 48.0496%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003e123\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003ctr style=\"height: 21.25px;\"\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 51.5957%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003eISBN\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003ctd style=\"width: 48.0496%; height: 21.25px;\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cmeta charset=\"utf-8\"\u003e\n\u003cspan\u003e9789332703049\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/tbody\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e","brand":"Ashok Khosla","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ ENG- English \/ responsibilities","offer_id":51552690929985,"sku":null,"price":1000.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0938\/9067\/5009\/files\/9789332703049-web-305-our-f.gif?v=1774937259","url":"https:\/\/www.academicfoundation.com\/products\/economic-developments-in-india-volume-203-copy","provider":"Academic Foundation | AF Press","version":"1.0","type":"link"}