COVER -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgment -- PART I -- Women Employment in Rural Andhra Pradesh -- Understanding Development Policy Failures in Africa through the Lens of Management and Organizational Theories and Research -- Spatial Representations in Closed 3D Spaces:Key Elements and Implications for Design -- Tango Immigrants in New York City:The Value of Social Reciprocities -- Economic Losses from Flood & Riverbank Erosion in Malda District, West Bengal, India -- From Knowledge Creation to Economic Development:The Missing Links in Muslim World -- Land Suitability Analysis for Crop Agriculture and Shrimp Culture:Study on a Coastal Area of Bangladesh -- Natural Gas Hydrates and their Potentiality for Future Energy Supply:A Survey of Literature -- Sustainable Livelihoods:An Approach and a Framework for Analysis -- Globalization, Governance and Epidemic Disease -- Measuring Quality of Life in Macedonia Using Human Development Indicators -- Forensic Accounting Hidden Balance of Payments of the Philippines -- Developmental Initiatives and Their Role in the Progress of Village:A Study from South Indian Village -- Symptoms of Xenophobia in Contemporary Africa: An Effect of Immigration -- City Games as a Framework for Studying Spatial Information and the Dynamics of Urban Design -- PART II -- What Features and Structural Relationships Make the Streets of Tel Aviv City Being a Legible? An Urban Design Perspective -- Learning More About Private Teak (Tectona Grandis 1. f.) Plantations in Java:Promoting Better Income for the Poor -- Biodiversity Management: A Case Study of Gautam Buddha National Park -- Use of ICT for the Welfare of Persons with Mental Retardation - A Channel for Rural Development with NGO -- Condition of Disabled Elderly in India -- Disjuncture Between Macro and Micro:Implications for Women's Emanicipation.

How Can Women Contribute to Peace? -- Poverty and Poverty Alleviation in Asia: A Sociological Appraisal -- Youth Aspirations for Education, Vocational Qualifications and Livelihoods in the Context of Economic Liberalization in Sri Lanka -- Fragile State and Millennium Development Goals: A Case Study of Nepal -- Community Based Disaster Management:Formulating a Community Safety Plan to Tackle Disasters -- Islam and Aids Prevention in Asia -- Political Perplexity Naga Sovereignty After Six Decades of Freedom Struggle -- A Comparative Presceptive of Tribal Health Behaviour in a Rural Area in Northern Part of West Bengal -- Farmers' Suicides in Andhra Pradesh: The Response of Rural Political Institutions -- Disparity of Energy Uses in Rural India -- How is Housing Financed?A Case of a Group of Tenants that Became Property Developers in Mumbai, India -- Contributors.