Global State of National Urban Policy 2024
<p>With global population increasingly concentrating in urban areas, cities are driving national economic growth, while also grappling with challenges such as inequalities, affordable housing shortages,
Urbanisation
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Summer squalls...
... a result of urbanisation?
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Birds flee winter home
Development work destroying wetlands, wildlife habitat in Bhopal
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Nurture nature
To achieve economic growth and poverty alleviation, it is imperative to constantly replenish environmental resources
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Forests: lost in the wild
Forests are the planet's largest and most important ecosystems. They exert a profound influence on the structure and function of the human habitat locally and globally
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Victims of modernisation
Tribal communities of Andaman and Nicobar Islands face extinction
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Decline of the Aravallis
The pressure on land threatens the vivid and spectacular biodiversity of these hills
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Swan song
When keats wrote
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No to reclamation
the Delhi Development Authority's ( dda ) plan for channelising the Yamuna and reclaiming the riverbed has run into trouble. The National Capital Region Planning Board ( ncrpb ) has
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Garbage addiction
FOR thousands of years, Spanish storks have been migrating to African countries like Senegal and Ethiopia from Europe. Now, a third of Spain's 22,000 white storks prefer to stay back during the
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CHINA
Beijing has adopted a resolution to protect trees which are facing a threat from urban expansion programmes. This is for the first time that a legislative method has been used by the Beijing