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Editorial

   

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Man is finest, highly evolved and intelligent form of life created by the mystic of the Nature. The process of evolution of man on the earth has taken millions of years - a great scientific odyssey for mankind. Finally upon the arrival of Man on Earth was rich and reverberating with pros tine prosperity and plenty of everything man wanted! The wants seems to have taken the lead over the Man giving rise to socialization and colonization's, what could be called in Demography as the habitats - the origin of Man’s intense interaction with the environment. The habitats in their progression to the establishment of settlements led to the origin of what is known to us as civilization.

Civilization are resources intensive. The need for resources would increase phenomenally with the advancement of civilization. Water the elixir of life on earth was the most utilized resource by the mankind. Large bodies of water, which were perennial sources such as rivers, and their banks in time became the principal cities for the origin or the so called cradles of civilization. Besides human species entire flora and fauna depends on this one single life sustaining resource - the water.

Modernization leads to greater consumption of resources on the earth. The entire cycle of consumption is in fact a fine tuned chemical equation, which gets balanced with the utilization. On one side the resources are consumed more and more the other side the end products of consumption start affecting the life on the earth-balancing the equation the Nature’s way!

 

   

 

 

     

 

Address to Contact:

Population-ENVIS Center

International Institute for Population Sciences

Govandi Station Road, Deonar, Mumbai-88.

Tel: 022-25581971,

Fax:(91)22-25563257

email: iip@envis.nic.in

Website: http://www.iipsenvis.nic.in 

 

 

   

 

 

                 
                     
     

IIPS, Deonar Mumbai - 400088                                                                                                                      Vol. 1, No. 1, March 2004