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Many states in India have made impressive strides to ensure that children, especially girls, go t... more Many states in India have made impressive strides to ensure that children, especially girls, go to school and stay there for as long as possible. In Karnataka, thousands of socially vulnerable girls study at the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) residential schools in over 70 taluks, completing 8th standard and then moving to regular schools or to the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) residential schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, one of the largest social sector initiatives. But is this sufficient? Why do girls continue to drop out of school? Recent research shows that in Karnataka over 30% of girls are married before the age of 18, despite efforts by both Government and civil society to promote higher age at marriage, build awareness on the huge disadvantages of child marriage to the individual, family and society, empower child protection systems by appointing, training and equipping child protection officers and local government bodies with laws and powers t...
International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2014
ada forest; 1/10 of the universal biota; 163 indigenous peoples that correspond to 204 thousand i... more ada forest; 1/10 of the universal biota; 163 indigenous peoples that correspond to 204 thousand individuals (60% of the Brazilian Indians); and the largest genetic bank in the world (Chapter 4, pp. 91–133). The projections presented by the author show that Amazonia is also very important in the mechanical, thermodynamics and chemical stabilities of the atmospheric processes on a global scale (p. 126). This fact reinforces its geopolitical importance. Amazonia is integral to scientific, economic and political processes, on a global scale. Its environmental preservation has become a national and international problem. Our future depends upon Amazonia’s sustainability. The predatory development of Amazonia must stop. The author does not present measures that should be taken to implement a sustainable development in the region. The fifth chapter (pp. 135–175) shows us that the large farms have changed radically the environment and the natural landscapes of the region. The wood industry and the agribusiness have caused irreversible losses to the cultures and forms of adapting of the traditional populations. The control of deforestation in the region is still a distant dream (p. 162). The lack of a national project of non-predatory development for the region contributes to its depreciation. Finally, the author examines the dilemmas and the contradictions that Amazonia presents to Brazil and the world, as well as the problems that the world presents to the region (Chapter 6, pp. 177–184). What are the complex problems that Amazonia has to deal with? How can the region be developed with environmental preservation? These are complex issues presented by this provocative book.
Many states in India have made impressive strides to ensure that children, especially girls, go t... more Many states in India have made impressive strides to ensure that children, especially girls, go to school and stay there for as long as possible. In Karnataka, thousands of socially vulnerable girls study at the Kasturba Gandhi Balika Vidyalaya (KGBV) residential schools in over 70 taluks, completing 8th standard and then moving to regular schools or to the Rashtriya Madhyamik Shiksha Abhiyan (RMSA) residential schools under the Sarva Shiksha Abhiyan, one of the largest social sector initiatives. But is this sufficient? Why do girls continue to drop out of school? Recent research shows that in Karnataka over 30% of girls are married before the age of 18, despite efforts by both Government and civil society to promote higher age at marriage, build awareness on the huge disadvantages of child marriage to the individual, family and society, empower child protection systems by appointing, training and equipping child protection officers and local government bodies with laws and powers t...
International Journal of Environmental Studies, 2014
ada forest; 1/10 of the universal biota; 163 indigenous peoples that correspond to 204 thousand i... more ada forest; 1/10 of the universal biota; 163 indigenous peoples that correspond to 204 thousand individuals (60% of the Brazilian Indians); and the largest genetic bank in the world (Chapter 4, pp. 91–133). The projections presented by the author show that Amazonia is also very important in the mechanical, thermodynamics and chemical stabilities of the atmospheric processes on a global scale (p. 126). This fact reinforces its geopolitical importance. Amazonia is integral to scientific, economic and political processes, on a global scale. Its environmental preservation has become a national and international problem. Our future depends upon Amazonia’s sustainability. The predatory development of Amazonia must stop. The author does not present measures that should be taken to implement a sustainable development in the region. The fifth chapter (pp. 135–175) shows us that the large farms have changed radically the environment and the natural landscapes of the region. The wood industry and the agribusiness have caused irreversible losses to the cultures and forms of adapting of the traditional populations. The control of deforestation in the region is still a distant dream (p. 162). The lack of a national project of non-predatory development for the region contributes to its depreciation. Finally, the author examines the dilemmas and the contradictions that Amazonia presents to Brazil and the world, as well as the problems that the world presents to the region (Chapter 6, pp. 177–184). What are the complex problems that Amazonia has to deal with? How can the region be developed with environmental preservation? These are complex issues presented by this provocative book.