Tag: Ecology
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The City of Imbalance: The Burden of Population and Ecological Crisis in Mumbai
Mumbai’s urban population is fast growing and problems of water availability, waste management and congestion are going to get more complex in future. Real estate development, Airport development project, Mumbai-Ahmedabad bullet train project, to name a few, are all meant to elevate the standard of life for an average citizen, however, their individual and collective…
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Coastal Regulation Zones and Economic Development: Is Ecological Dilution the Cost of Progress?
By Debarati Choudhury, Tata Institute of Social Sciences, Hyderabad. Story So Far: The Coastal Regulation Zone Notification of 2019 has cleared the way for commercialisation and development projects in Mumbai, while racing towards a more vulnerable ecology. The proposal of lifting restrictions from over 6,070 kilometres of the coastline for commercial activities has rung alarms…
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Partnership to Advance Clean Energy (PACE): Understanding the Basics
By Navishta Qureshi, NLIU, Bhopal. In the present situation facing the globe, one of the most important considerations for economy of any country is the development of its energy sector. Not only from the perspective of economic production of goods, but also from the standpoint of the effect that it causes on environment, it is necessary…