Tag: urbanisation and environment degradation
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The Feat of Ecologically Sensitive Urbanisation: What India can learn from its Asian peers
By Riya Mathur, SRCC, New Delhi. Given that the purpose of urbanization for any developing country is to produce highly efficient urban areas for better consumption and efficient management of resources and ensuring public welfare, India needs a concrete structure to embark on this journey. In a time when rural to urban migration is high…
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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…