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February 2010
                
2 February is World Wetlands Day
  • Wetland Watch: Click ‘Wetland Watch’. Copy the survey sheet into a text editor and print out a few copies. Team up with your teachers/friends/parents and observe a wetland to understand its concerns and conservation efforts needed. Refer to the survey sheet to note your observation and convey them to the concerned authorities like local municipal corporation/gram panchayat/zilla parishad.
  • Try the Wetland Quiz at kidsRgreen
               

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New Book 

       

An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach: Freedom and Agency

Edited By Séverine Deneulin with Lila Shahani

 

This is a textbook aimed at undergraduate and post-graduate students of social sciences, as well as development practitioners. It provides an introduction to the ‘human development and capabilities approach’. The main idea is that ‘development is about giving people the opportunities to live lives they value, and about enabling them to become actors in their own destinies’. The ‘capability approach’ has been put forward by Nobel Prize laureate Amartya Sen.

 

Topics such as the following are discussed:

  • the conceptualisation and measurement of well-being and inequality

  • the role of markets and economic growth in promoting development

  • the importance of democracy and public debate

  • culture and religion; health; equality and justice

  • the connections between social and economic policy in addressing poverty and inequality.

Case studies from different countries help to illustrate the concepts. Each chapter has a set of questions for seminar discussions.

 
An Introduction to the Human Development and Capability Approach
Freedom and Agency
Edited by A. Séverine Deneulin with Lila Shahani
Published September 2009
PB 978-1-84407-806-6 • £24.95
234 x 156 • 376pp • Photographs, diagrams, tables
 
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