In this report, ESCAP explores the future of urbanization in Asia and the Pacific, focusing on the dynamic shifts in the region’s urban landscape. It highlights the region’s demographic transformations, including population ageing, and the persistent challenges of urban poverty and inequality. The analysis covers urban areas of all sizes, …
The Public Accounts Committee (2014-15), present this Eighteenth Report (Sixteenth Lok Sabha) on 'Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission’ based on C&AG; Report No. 15 of 2012-13, Union Government (Performance Audit) relating to the Ministries of Urban Development and Housing & Urban Poverty Alleviation.
How many megacities does China have? The United Nations puts it at six. Try 15. China is urbanizing at a staggering rate—in 35 years, it has added more than 500 million people to its cities. As a result, it looks like the world has vastly underestimated the size and scope …
How many megacities does China have? The United Nations puts it at six. Try 15. China is urbanizing at a staggering rate—in 35 years, it has added more than 500 million people to its cities. As a result, it looks like the world has vastly underestimated the size and scope …
Over one lakh trees were cut during 2006-2014 to make way for Delhi Metro and PWD projects, bringing down the city's green cover to 10% from the minimum desired level of 33%, a Delhi high court appointed amicus informed the court on Wednesday . Stunned by the “magnitude“ of trees …
Veteran scientist R V Bhosale has claimed that environmental changes and increasing air pollution might be the major obstacles to the festival of rays at the Mahalaxmi temple. During the biannual festival, sun rays fall at the feet and face of goddess Mahalaxmi's idol and thousands of devotees throng the …
According to health experts, hypertension and diabetes make a lethal combo of health disorders. A recent study found that 45 per cent of population in metro cities, including the national capital, suffers from high blood pressure and 20 per cent population suffers from a combination of diabetes and hypertension, also …
Water insecurity costs the global economy some US$ 500 billion annually, according to Global Water Partnership (GWP). That figure does not take into account environmental impacts so the total drag on the world economy could be 1% or more of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). GWP released these figures based …
Karnataka has put forth a number of proposals before a high-level committee on amending the Wildlife Protection Act (WPA). Simplifying procedures and reducing time taken for major decisions pertaining to land conversion for developmental works, the need to strengthen and speed up laws to prosecute poachers, giving a relook to …
The state government is set to introduce a policy that will encourage households and other buildings—institutional and commercial—to install rooftop solar plants and do their bit in reducing carbon footprint. Speaking to TOI on Thursday, state power and non-conventional energy sources minister Manish Gupta said a draft document on net …
China has resumed research on green GDP and plans to start pilot projects next year, according to the environmental watchdog. Green GDP is an economic growth index that quantifies and measures the monetary costs of environmental damage caused by a country's economic growth. China's move follows a call by the …
This paper examines the vulnerability context of migrant workers’ in the informal sector in three Indian cities (Kochi, Surat, and Mumbai), specifically in terms of how their livelihoods interface with climate change and health inequities. A key assumption is that the progression of vulnerability to climate change and infectious diseases …
Rapid urbanization in Ghana over the past three decades has coincided with rapid GDP growth. This has helped to create jobs, increase human capital, decrease poverty, and expand opportunities and improve living conditions for millions of Ghanaians. Ghana’s urban transformation has been momentous, but it is not unique: a similar …
This technical paper represents an initial attempt to assess the risk of disaster-induced displacement in eight countries in South Asia – Afghanistan, Bangladesh, Bhutan, India, the Maldives, Nepal, Pakistan and Sri Lanka. It presents results from the fifth of five analyses of disaster-related displacement risk, each of which corresponds with …
Increasing ubanisation and industrialisation are widening the rift between demand for and supply of water The quality and quantity of available fresh water has been greatly affected by unsustainable development and governance failures, says the UN World Development Report launched in New Delhi last week. Titled “Water for a Sustainable …
To see the Earth's ecology forest for its trees, first we have to acknowledge there aren't many large, intact forests around. In fact, according to a new study published in Science Advances, there are only two such continuous forests left: in South America and Africa, Christian Science Monitor reports. "There …
Private settlements, quarries, construction of roads, water contamination and introduction of exotic plant species are some of the factors affecting biodiversity in Margalla Hills National Park (MHNP). “Illegal construction and encroachments by individuals and private housing societies, quarries and cutting of trees are not only disturbing the ecological system, but …
LUCKNOW: Don't forget to apprise your maid or driver about tuberculosis as they are at a higher risk of the opportunistic disease that kills 200 people each year in the state. Playing a good Samaritan is important to your own health because a person with TB may spread the infection …
The annual Asian Development Outlook provides a comprehensive analysis of economic performance in the past year and offers forecasts for the next 2 years for the 45 economies in Asia and the Pacific that make up developing Asia. Steady growth in the region is sustained by economic reform at home, …
Farms, roads and towns are fast slicing up the world's wilderness, leaving 70 per cent of the world's remaining forested land less than one km from a forest edge, a US-led study showed. The report, by two dozen researchers on five continents and using data the covers the past 35 …
The planet faces a 40 percent shortfall in water supplies in 15 years due to urbanization, population growth and increasing demand for water for food production, energy and industry, the United Nations said on Friday. Competition for water between water-thirsty sectors means better management is essential to ensure everybody gets …
