Tag: urbanisation and environment
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Sustainable Measures for Revamping Urbanisation and Environmental Policies
We organized a one-day public policy Symposium on Urbanisation and Environmental Policies for students and young professionals in New Delhi. It was aimed at reflecting on environmental policies and analyzing their impact on the contemporary urban growth landscape of our country. The discussions and presentations were focused on the need to improve the present legal…
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Development and Environment : Trends and Transformations
By Debokarsho Dutta, Jadavpur University, Kolkata. The question of development is now widely understood to be multidimensional as opposed to unidimensional as it was for much of history. The contemporary challenges of poverty, disease, terrorism et. al. are intricately linked with themes of development and indices such as the Human Development Index (HDI) represent this…
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Real Estate Growth and Ecological Crisis: The Story of Delhi
This Research Brief outlines the ecological consequences of unorganized urban settlements along with the existing and upcoming real estate development projects in the National Capital Territory (NCT) of Delhi. To provide a holistic view of the status quo, this Brief takes into account the challenges of vehicular congestion, green cover, urban waste management, and urban…
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Real Estate Development in Mumbai: The Environmental Cost of Urbanisation
By Naresh Babu Kunche, Prime Minister’s Rural Development Fellow. Mumbai witnessed thriving industrialization in the 1900s followed by rapid urbanisation in the post-independence period. What started of as a conglomeration of seven islands, gradually kept undergoing land reclamation, and transformed into the financial capital of India.
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Symposium on Public Policy: Urbanisation and Environmental Policies
LexQuest Foundation is organizing an immersive one-day public policy symposium, for students and young professionals. The Symposium aims to reflect on the environmental policies and analyze their impact concerning the contemporary urban growth landscape of our country. The discussions and presentations will focus on the need to better the present legislative framework and to fill the…