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, …
Following a direction by the national green tribunal (NGT), two Delhi-based hospitality companies, which had been given a lease to run a 'model tourism-entertainment zone' for a period of 22 years at Vagator suo motu began the removal of a few structures within the coastal regulation zone (CRZ) on Wednesday. …
The southern Bench of the National Green Tribunal (NGT) will on Friday take up the petitions filed before it seeking the withdrawal of environmental clearance given to the Vizhinjam seaport project. Initially, three persons belonging to Thiruvananthapuram had filed a petition alleging that the project would destroy the biodiversity of …
The Ashtamudi Lake in the Kollam District of Kerala lies in between 76.53°and 76.63° longitude and 8.93° and 8.83° latitude. It is a palm-shaped extensive waterbody with eight prominent arms, adjoining the Kollam town. This extensive estuarine system has a length of 16 km with a maximum width of 14 …
This paper presents a strategy for using streets as drivers of citywide slum upgrading and urban transformation taking into account the requirements of disaster management and rescue and relief operations. It argues that a street-led approach to slum upgrading presents a practical and simple business case for realizing the agenda …
With an urbanization level of 31.16 percent in 2011, India is the least urbanized country among the top 10 economies of the world. In addition, unlike other countries, the transition of workforce out of agriculture is incomplete. This coupled with jobless growth in recent years has contributed to an increase …
This document addresses the issue of climate compatible development in the context of rapidly growing cities across the African continent, where two key features are widespread: informality and deeply entrenched inequality. As informality comes in many forms, including settlement on unplanned land without public services and bulk infrastructure; unregistered housing …
The Fifth Assessment Report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change is the most comprehensive and relevant analysis of changing climate. It provides the scientific fact base that will be used around the world to formulate climate policies in the coming years. This document is one of a series synthesizing …
The geographical location of Bangladesh in the Bay of Bengal leaves the country susceptible to significant climate change impacts that exacerbate environmental hazards. In the urban context, disasters and hazards are posed by flood and waterlogging, earthquakes and fires. The residents of informal settlements, or slums, can be understood as …
In a bid to protect the environment, city activists on Monday filed an application in the National Green Tribunal (NGT), Western zone bench, Pune, against the Nashik Municipal Corporation (NMC), pleading the tribunal's intervention in preventing the of felling of 350 trees for the various road widening works across the …
The tree authority of Nagpur Municipal Corporation led by municipal commissioner Shyam Wardhane on Monday gave nod to National Highway Authority of India (NHAI) to cut 14 full-grown trees on the road stretch between Pagalkhana Square and Mankapur Square. NHAI had sought permission to cut 32 trees on both sides …
Environment activists could breathe a bit easy as the revised plan for National Capital Region and sub-regional plan of Haryana will be reworked to ensure no tourism activities and only limited construction in natural conservation zones (NCZs). These sensitive zones include Aravalis, riverbeds and major water bodies. Sources told TOI …
Bhopal is leaving a huge carbon footprint on the environment due to its energy consumption pattern and continuous depletion of green cover. There is a rapid increase in energy consumption by the urban population. And with the recent depletion in city's green cover in the name of development, the city …
As the world celebrates Malaria Day Friday, health officials have claimed that sustained efforts have brought down malaria cases in Bardez, but admit that unplanned urbanization has led to a spurt in dengue cases in the taluka. The Directorate of Health Services (DHS) has registered 1,530 cases of Malaria and …
Advanced techniques of multi-temporal InSAR (MT-InSAR) represent a valuable tool in ground subsidence studies allowing remote investigation of the behavior of mass movements in long time intervals by using large datasets of SAR images covering the same area and acquired at different epochs. Beijing is susceptible to subsidence, producing undesirable …
A two-day workshop on "Simulation modelling and climate change: Issues and challenges" organized by Institute of Environment and Sustainable Development, Banaras Hindu University (BHU) began on Monday. Speaking on the occasion, RD Singh, director, National Institute of Hydrology, Roorkee said that adaptation to the climate change is really a big …
The theme for Earth Day 2014 is 'Green Cities'. To focus on this, Earth Day Network-India has produced an e-Book that compiles accounts of ways that organisations around India have helped to green their cities. The e-Book 'Pathways to Green Cities: Innovative Ideas from Urban India' has accounts shared by …
The world's urban areas are set to grow by almost twice the size of Manhattan a day until 2030 and the design of future cities in Asia and Africa will be crucial to slow global warming, a U.N. study showed on Monday. The breakneck expansion means billion-dollar opportunities for companies, …
Environmental activists in Gautam Budh Nagar have written to the Uttar Pradesh chief secretary to stop rampant concretization of public spaces in Noida and Greater Noida. In a letter to the chief secretary, activists of social action for forests & environment (SAFE) highlighted instances of large-scale concretization underway in Delta …
The Global Commission on the Economy and Climate and the Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations (ICRIER) has launched the research for the new climate economy project in India. The project is a new international initiative to analyse the economic benefits and costs of acting on climate change. …
Township: The issue of biological corridor (BC) affecting the progress of the Rinchenthang Township in Nganglam, Samdrupjongkhar may be deliberated in the upcoming Parliament session. The business community of Nganglam raised the issue of how the government could carry out constructions within the corridor while people were not allowed to …
