Science and Technology Communication for Development

摘要

Science and Technology have always been an integral part of Indian culture. Naturalphilosophy, as it was termed in those ancient times, was pursued vigorously at institutions of higher learning. The failure of reductionism- The very success of westernscience during the past 200 years is based on reductionism-explaining nature in termsof mechanistic processes and attempting to understand the whole of nature by studyingits isolated parts. By generating detailed knowledge that has made it possible to expandthe exploitation of nature while being incapable of determining all of the possible sideeffects, western science may actually be considered a principal causative factor of manycurrent environmental problems.