Dear All
Please see the Abstract of the Paper published in the Journal as:
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PANCHATATVA
FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT
Lakshmi Narayana N.
Director, Geo Rehabilitation Centre
Hyderabad.
ABSTRACT
The process of business
oriented development and exploitation of resources including the natural one
has resulted for several challenges to the larger population by affecting their
health and wealth including environment with lowered quality of life. The five
elements of panchatatva covering water, earth, fire, air and space are well
connected and works as cause and consequence of each other. Among them water
dominates others as it is the most precious and life saving commodity and the
paper presents its needs, ways, challenges, opportunities and connectivity with
other elements for improving the health and wealth of the people and
environment. The challenges of water covering poor harvesting, insufficient
storage, less scope for watershed, limited scope to recharge the groundwater, vulnerable
for pollutants, poor access, high wastage, poorer ways of disposal, getting
affected with hazards and disasters, and poor community participation have
resulted for water crises and one need not be surprised when next world war
occurs only for water. The use of technologies with effective transfer from lab
to land will strengthen the water resources along with other elements of
panchatatva with better sustainability and quality. The opportunities with
community based initiatives are simple, flexible, scalable, replicable and
sustainable matching to the dynamics of the given environment.
Key Words: Panchatatva,
Resources, Community, Environment, Disasters, Sustainability, Quality of Life.
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Looking forward...
All the best.
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