Slums

Of shikaras and slums

The colony that has mushroomed upon the Dal Lake is the only slum on water in Srinagar. A byproduct of the proxy war between India and Pakistan, it threatens to kill the lake

Publication Date:

14/09/1999

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

8

Issue:

19990915

pp:

0

Tags:

Lake Pollution, Weeds, Dal Lake, Slums, Waste Disposal, Tourism, Governance

Sanitation

Cities, sewers and poverty: India's politics of sanitation

This paper discusses the political circumstances which help explain why the insanitary living conditions of such a large section of India’s urban population have been ignored, and contrasts these with the circumstances which explain successful sanitary reform in Britain in the second half of the 19th century.

Publication Date:

01/04/1999

Author(s): Susan E. Chaplin

Source: Environment & Urbanization

Vol:

11

Issue:

1

pp:

145-158

Tags:

Urban Sanitation, Poverty, India, Slums, Kolkata, Mumbai, Scavengers, United Kingdom (UK), Municipal Corporation, Governance, Politics, Urban Water Supply, Waterborne diseases, Public Participation, Women, NGO

Energy

Divine dwellings

An organisation set up by priests provides inexpensive bamboo houses to people living in slums and on the streets

Publication Date:

14/04/1997

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Bamboo, Lowcost Housing, Slums, Rural Technology, Ecuador

Air Pollution

Ambient air pollution & respiratory symptoms complex in preschool children

To study the association between ambient air pollutants (AAP) and respiratory symptoms complex (RSC) in preschool children, a cohort of 664 children between the ages of 1 month to 4.5 yr were randomly selected from 28 slums (anganwadi centres) of Lucknow, north India. They were followed up fortnightly for six months.

Publication Date:

01/10/1996

Author(s): Shally Awasthi, Henry A. Glick, Robert H. Fletcher & et al

Source: Indian Journal of Medical Research

Vol:

104

Issue:

0

pp:

257

Tags:

Air Pollution, Health Effects, Child Health, Respiratory Diseases, Slums, Indoor Air Pollution, Oxides Of Nitrogen (NOx), SPM, Lucknow (T), Household Energy

India

Homing in

CAPART calls for better rural housing and technology in the country

Publication Date:

29/06/1995

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Rural Housing, Slums

India

Squatters' rights

The issue of toilet space for 8.1 million slumdwellers in India's 4 major metros threatens to expand into a matter of social rights

Publication Date:

27/02/1995

Author(s): Anumita Roychowdhury, Rahul Srivastava

Source: Down to Earth

Tags:

Urban Habitat, Slums, Slum Upgrading, Sanitation, India

Environment

The nuances of ignorance

GENDER'S role in social organisation, economic production -- and their attendant problems -- are attracting the notice they so completely deserve. This book is particularly interesting because it is

Publication Date:

14/09/1994

Author(s): Vasudha Dhagamwar

Source: Down to Earth

Vol:

3

Issue:

19940915

pp:

0

Tags:

Slums, Sri Lanka, Thailand