Subject(s): Indian Economic Planning -- decentralized Planning -- Managing natural resources : Environmentalism, eco-development debate-- political ecology of drought and water scarcity - need for an ecological water resources policy-- forestry in India -- Management of common property resources : People's participation- approach to management of common property resources-- common property resources and rural poor in dry regions of India-- Pani panchayat- movement to secure irrigation facility to poor farmers -- Locational aspects in planning : Politics of industrial location in India- federalism and industrial development, industrial policy for backward areas -- management of technology : Industrial hazard management- Bhopal accident, political economy of technological choice -- Decentralised planning : Systemic approach to plan monitoring, decentralised planning- economic issues