Out of about 1.2 billion people in India, 68% people live on agriculture as their main occupation. Ground water is therefore an important resource which provides over 70% of rural drinking water supply and about 50% of water used for irrigation. Rains in Monsoon season from June to September, provide the main source of water but they last only for four months and the rest of the year is dry in ...

Rupert Maclean (Australia) Director, Section for Secondary Education at UNESCO, Paris, since April 2000, prior to which he was Chief of the Asia-Pacific Centre of Educational Innovation for Development (ACEID), UNESCO PROAP, Bangkok. Before joining UNESCO in 1992 he was for two years the UNESCO Chief Technical Advisor in Myanmar for a UNDP-funded project to strengthen and upgrade teacher educat...

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization UNEP United Nations Environment Programme This report reflects the results of the UNESCO/UNEP project on “Youth, sustainable consumption and life styles”, which was launched in March 2000. The project was framed around a survey on the consumption patterns of young people in 24 countries and six country case studies. The results of...

Educational Planning and Administration in New Delhi. The initiative brought together representatives of nine large higher education systems to generate insights into shared challenges. This report has been developed from the nine country specific papers produced as part of the project, whose authors are credited individually in the publication, and written by the research team at the Universit...

Hard rock aquifers for the purpose of this Paper mean the non-carbonate, fractured rock aquifers in the terrain covered by crystalline basement complex, metamorphic rocks and also by extensive effusive volcanic rocks like the basalts of western India (Deccan traps. Ground water development in hard rock aquifer areas has always played a secondary role compared to that in the areas having high-yi...

This paper describes the process and problems that had to be faced during the elaboration of a digital interactive narrative for the Instory project (http://img.di.fct.unl.pt/InStory/) implanted in «Quinta da Regaleira», Sintra, Portugal, and classified as World Heritage by Unesco. It also explores some of the practical and theoretical issues in what regards the literary terminology and strateg...

We document the history and progress of two international ocean data management projects. The “Global Oceanographic Data Archaeology and Rescue” project was initiated in 1993 under the auspices of the UNESCO Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC). The project has the goal of locating (archaeology) and digitizing or copying to modern electronic media (rescuing) historical (pre-1992) oc...

The IGCP 510 project Global Correlation of A-type Granites and Related Rocks, their Mineralization, and Significance in Lithospheric Evolution (or, in short, A-type Granites and Related Rocks through Time) of the International Geoscience Programmewas developed in the period of 2005 to 2010 with the sponsorship of the International Union of Geological Sciences (IUGS) and United Nations Education...

“Project-based learning (PBL) is a model that organizes learning around projects”(Thomas p.1, 2000). Projects are authentic tasks closely linked to learners' daily lives. By being engaged in projects, learners not only develop the 21st century skills but also promote their awareness of and care about surrounding environment and people. This research examines how the pupils in two lower secondar...