India

 City Plights

India's urban population has swelled from 62 million in 1951 to about 217 million four decades later. Its cities have distended, 23 of them with more than a million people in 1991. Work opportunities

Publication Date: 
14/11/1996
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Vehicular Pollution, Urban Environment, India
India

 SMOG INC.

A GUIDED TOUR THROUGH THE SMOKESCREEN OF VEHICULAR POLLUTION

Publication Date: 
14/11/1996
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Vehicular Pollution, Urban Environment, India
Environment

Environmental profile of the Singrauli region, India

The Singrauli region, which produces 10% of India's electric power, has experienced rapid industrialization and urbanization over the last 30 years. Along with this growth has come environmental degradation in terms of coal cycle and industrial pollution, displacement of populations, housing and occupational hazards, related health effects, and land degradation.

Publication Date: 
31/03/1996
Ranjan Kumar Bose, Josef Leitmann
Cities
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Singrauli STPS, Environment, Mining, Power Industry, Thermal Power Plants, Rihand HP, Displacement, Rehabilitation, Land Use, Health Effects, Urban Environment, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Industrial Pollution
Industry

 MEXICO CITY

Mexico hosted an international seminar -- Urban Sustainability and Management of the Atmospheric Basin of Mexico City's Metropolitan Zone -- in May '95 to discuss ways to save its capital from the

Publication Date: 
29/06/1995
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Environment, Mexico
Environment

 Urban anxieties

WRITTEN for city administrators, these 3 books are meant to be handbooks which collate the facts of urban areas degeneration, the theories of a constructive approach to urban management, and

Publication Date: 
30/05/1995
Kishore Jathanandani
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Urban Development, Urban Environment
Air Pollution

 Environment first, economy later, say Indians

ALMOST half of India's urban population is in favour of protecting the environment "even at the risk of slowing down economic growth" as against one-fourth who feel that economic growth should be the topmost priority.

Publication Date: 
29/06/1992
Down to Earth
Tags:
Water Pollution, Air Pollution, Tropical Forests, Urban Environment, Economic Development, Developing Countries
Agriculture

Food insecurity in urban populations

The food crisis at the end of the last decade and the resulting food riots that occurred in cities all over the world exposed the vulnerability and fragility of the current global food system and highlighted the increasing problem of urban food security. Urban households were among the hardest hit by the food and economic crises as they saw their purchasing power decline drastically.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2010
Paul Teng, Margarita Escaler
Centre for Non-Traditional Security (NTS) Studies
Tags:
Food Security, Urbanisation, Agriculture, India, Global, Farmers, Food Policy, Urban Environment, Energy, Biofuel
Solid Waste

CMC plans to make Udupi pollution free

Udupi CMC has chalked out plans for beautification and development of pollution free city in preparation for the platinum jubilee celebrations of CMC in 2010.

Publication Date: 
01/12/2009
Deccan Herald (Bangalore)
Tags:
Pollution, Urban Environment, Solid Waste, Organic Waste, Karnataka, Udupi (T)
India

 Much of today's environmental impacts originate in cities

The world has seen a dramatic shift to urban living. In 1900, only 10 per cent of the global population were urban dwellers; now it's more than 50 per cent. More than 95 per cent of the net increase

Publication Date: 
14/03/2008
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Pollution, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Sprawl, Urban Environment, Population, Population Trends, India, Delhi, Mumbai, Calcutta (D), Global, Statistics
India

 Balding the urban landscape through shortsighted fiscal policies

Traditionally most urban areas in the country have grown out of rural settlements. Land use changes and population growth have precipitated urbanization in a lot of rural centres. Urbanization also

Publication Date: 
14/02/2008
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Development, Urban Habitat, Displacement, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Housing, Urban Environment, Finance, Poverty, India, Karnataka

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