Dear All
The process of paper publication has been continued and another paper has been published on "PEOPLE’S
LIVING ENVIRONMENT – OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALTHY LIVING"
A brief details of the same were pasted below as:
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PEOPLE’S
LIVING ENVIRONMENT – OPPORTUNITIES FOR HEALTHY LIVING
Lakshmi Narayana N
Mentor,
Geo Rehabilitation Centre,
Hyderabad.
Before you do anything, stop and recall the face of the poorest most
helpless destitute person you have seen and ask yourself. “Is that what I am
about to do going to help him?”
.. Mahatma
Gandhi
ABSTRACT
It is the fact that the Nation has got
resources to cater the needs of its people but not their greed. The consumption
of resources by the people majorly depends upon the type of environment they
prefer. Simple or healthy living needs minimum or optimum use of resources
where as luxury or wealthy living consumes more resources. The first one
results for positive impact with minimum wastage and pollution where as the
later one contributes for negative impact with higher wastage and pollution. The
mode of wealthy living by a smaller group affects the dynamics of the larger
population at the level of family, community and the Nation. Simple living and
high thinking lead towards better quality of life where as luxury living with
low thinking move towards standard of living which is not sustainable and not
desired by the people and the Nation. Luxury living do results for several
challenges with unhealthy environments where as simple living does have several
advantages with healthy environments. The Government majorly working with top
down approaches needs to work on partnership basis with CSOs who prefer to work
with bottom up approaches for the people by the people. The suggested channels
are simple, replicable, scalable and sustainable and put a check to several
challenges with solutions.
Key Words: Resources, Health, Wealth, Simple, Luxury, Environment, Opportunities, Inclusion,
Sustainability.
Statement
of the Problem
The
luxury living environment of a smaller group needs more resources and results
for shortage of critical needs of larger population, wastage, pollution,
corruption, migration, violence, crime, and other unhealthy consequences. This
further affects the sustainability of the growth & development of the
people and the nation with poor quality of life (QOL).
Recommendations
The availability of resources and its
access for the people and sustainable development is the priority area and
recommendations made include:
1.
Strengthen the systems with better
access for the people to move towards simple living with healthy baits.
2.
Educate and orient the Students towards
the advantages of simple or healthy living and motivate them to take up
projects and research work in this direction.
3.
Organize Seminars, Workshops and
Trainings for the people with the combination of youth and senior citizens.
4.
Strength CSOs and crate platform of GO-CSOs
to work on partnership basis with healthy systems and values by the people for
the people.
5.
Encourage the individuals or
institutions or CSOs for the good work done by them by way of awards or
supports or both.
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Looking forward...
All the best.
