GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Read about Rio: no trust between nations 6 BiOMASS Goats, falsely accused 10 LIBERALISATION w.r.t the environment? Debatable 12 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS Nature has value. Account for it 14 THE GIRL CHILD Why girls don't study at Syuta 16 RIVER POLLUTION The river Damodar is choking 20 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Interview/KlausTopfer 23 HABITAT Slums aren't a city's bum deal 24 POPULAR MOVEMENTS Of course, Chipko 26 MINING Survival stakes 30 PROTECTED AREA MANAGEMENT Running on barbed wire (ofjfences 32 CIVIL SOCIETY EU's Panchayati Raj 36 GLOBALISATION Interview / Jan Pronk 38 BIOTECHNOLOGY A T C G is big business 39 ECOSYSTEM Lake Kolleru's degradation 42 INDIAN SCIENCE We put it under the microscope 46 TRADITION Let's not lose our sacred groves 52 VILLAGE REPUBLIC Sukhomajri: norm of the future? 56 PEOPLE Adivasis: hopes and tribulations - 60 WORLOVIEW Interview / Wolfgang Sachs 66 TECHNOLOGY Catamarans skim lightly in the sea 67 GENETICS Screening for diseased genes 69 TRADE The world, according to Uncle Dunkel 70 TOXIC WASTE Dump it! 74 GENETICS Can genes modify human behaviour? 76 ENERGY Can India modify nuke behaviour? 78 WASTE RECYCLING Ragpicking makes sense 82 BHOPAL Leaks in the system 84 MICROBES Microbial diseases, re-born 86 FORESTS An open-and-shut case of bungling90 REHABILITATION Tribals are the ones most uprooted 94 SCIENCE Searching for consciousness 96 GENETICS Drug companies like J Craig Venter97 GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL GOVERNANCE The odds are against the South 98 ECOSYSTEM The Aral Sea basin in shambles 104 THE UNIVERSE Hubble is a star performer 107 ENVIRONMENTAL EDUCATION Off the wrong foot 108 FISHING Angling to save stocks 110 PATENTS Grabbing up Neem 114 PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS A national alliance 117 ARTISANS Face an acute raw material crisis 118 SCIENCE Interview / Arthur C Clarke 122 PEOPLE'S MOVEMENTS Right to information is a poll issue 123 POLITICAL PARTIES Can't fool people anymore 124 TECHNOLOGY We said: Internet could catch on 130 GLOBAL WARMING Hot stuff 134 HEALTH Payoffs to progress 138 VEHICULAR POLLUTION A primer 142 PESTICIDES Creeping up the food chain 144 FISHING Interview / Thomas Kocherry 148 RIVER POLLUTION A town fights for its river 150 RIVER POLLUTION Yamuna passes through cities, dying152 TRADITIONAL WATER HARVESTING People's wisdom of managing water 154 BIOTECHNOLOGY Time to be sheepish 157 ECOSYSTEM Urban lakes are mostly muck 158 JUDICIARY Courting environment 160 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Rio's regress, 5 years on 164 ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS The cost of nature's services 166 THE UNIVERSE Pathfinder lands on Mars 167 ECOSYSTEM Rangeland distress 168 ADVOCACY Interview/L M S Palni 169 CLIMATE CHANGE EINino, 1997 170 GLOBAL GOVERNANCE Kyoto Protocol 174 BIOTECHNOLOGY Hard-selling GMOs 176 SOLID WASTE At the Alang ship-breaking yard 178 CONSUMER CULTURE Ecofads 180 TECHNOLOGY Designing sustainable products 181 ENVIRONMENT EDUCATION Pandit Gobar Ganesh says hello 182 ENERGY Rural people don't gobble firewood 191 BIODIVERSITY Narrowing options 195 CIVIL SOCIETY The NGO sector 201 CIVIL SOCIETY Arresting Anna Hazare 206 POLITY Corruption and the environment 208 HABITAT Small towns, big mess 210 POVERTY Amartya Sen's missed the point 212 INDIA'S ENVIRONMENT A sketch of the Citizen's Sixth Report 213 WATERSHED MANAGEMENT A river comes back to life 214 AIR POLLUTION Dieselmania 219 CIVIL SOCIETY How green is industry in India? 224 GROUNDWATEFt POLLUTION In some states in India, frightening226 GLOBAL TRADE The Seattle non-talks 230 POLITY Kerala de-centralises governance 232 LISTING Cover stories, for your convenience 239