Autor: B. S. Bhooshan

B.S. BHOOSHAN (b. 1946) has a Master’s degree in Town and Country Planning from the University of Madras. He has been closely associated with the research projects on human settlements of the Scientific Committee on Problems of Environment (SCOPE), Paris and the International Institute for Environment and Development, London. He is currently on the faculty of the Institute of Development Studies, Mysore. His publications include The Development Experience of Nepal, Concept Publishing Company, 1979, in addition to several papers in journals of international repute. R.P. MISRA is an eminent scholar of development studies, urban and regional planning and rural economics. Among the positions he has held are Professor of Geography and Director, Institute of Development Studies, University of Mysore, Vice-Director, United Nations Centre for Regional Development, Nagoya, Japan, and Vice-Chancellor, Allahabad University. Author of over a dozen of books and editor of over twenty volumes on emerging development issues, he has been a frequent contributor to learned journals on regional planning, urban and rural development and environmental problems. The crossnational comparative study on regional development which he undertook while at the UNCRD resulted in Rural Development: Capitalist and Socialist Paths in five volumes (Concept, 1985). Prof. Misra is currently Professor of Regional Planning, Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, besides being Director, Gandhi Bhawan, Delhi University.