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Sustainable Development To introduce the concepts of sustainable development into operational decision making, it is important to understand the criteria for effective technical, social, economic and political interventions. There has been an urgent need therefore for new channels of communication for sharing of knowledge and experience in different fields, especially for the scientists in the Third World. The new journal, Sustainable Development, is specifically designed to fulfil this need. It will be a major vehicle for interchange of scientific information and analysis catering to the needs of the global scientific community and decision makers at all levels. The journal will help :
Sustainable
development will present state-of-art information in a manner understandable
to the educated non-technical reader :
Sustainable Development will present reviews and original research papers dealing with the issues of environment and development. Communications which are mutidisciplinary, issue-based or solution-oriented would be preferred. Too good to be true ? I enjoyed your Newsletter, especially the items on the los-cost tiles and the exhibition centre. But my suspicious mind found the Tata story from Bihar too good to be true. How can you be sure that the environmental impacts are so low, or that Noamude is a "remarkable juxtapositioning of traditional skills, tribal culture susbsistence along with modern technologies", if you didn’t speak to the tribals? I assume you didn’t, from the statement that TISCO’s management "claims" a harmonious relationship exists between it and the tribals. "How can a communication link be complete without feedback?" you ask, rhetorically, in the last words of the Newsletter. How indeed/ Does one write to the Chaupal, and hope it reaches you? Or cut out the picture of your Delhi HQ and paste it on the envelope? Or write care of your printers or designers? Your address in issue number 2, please! John Tinker The PANOS Institute London
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