Habitat And Urbanisation

Urban development concerns in focus

International meet on sustainable cities to begin today
Special session on the catastrophe in Japan
Stress on use of technology for governance
Thiruvananthapuram: As many as 280 delegates, including 83 from abroad, are expected to deliberate on the trends in urbanisation and the challenges before local self-government institutions at a four-day international conference on

Publication Date: 
22/04/2011
Hindu (Thiruvananthapuram)
Tags:
Urban Development, Kerala, Habitat And Urbanisation, Urbanisation, Sustainable Development
Economy

Issues for the approach to the 12th Five Year Plan

Full Planning Commission meeting: Issues for approach to the 12th Five Year Plan.
 

Publication Date: 
21/04/2011
Planning Commission
Tags:
Planning, Environment, Economic Development, Sustainable Development, Energy, Water Resources, Infrastructure Development, Agriculture, Rural Development, Health, Education, Urbanisation, Economy, India
Economy

12th Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2017-18) NASSCOM Inputs

12th Five Year Plan (2012-13 to 2017-18) – NASSCOM Inputs. NASSCOM approach was to review of strategy challenges identified in line with their understanding of issues and imperatives. Each of these were deliberated in detail to identify, include and review any other challenge which was missing.

http://12thplan.gov.in/stakeholder_sugg.php

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
NASSCOM
Tags:
Infrastructure Development, Environment, India, Development, Urbanisation, Transport, Agriculture, Health Care, Trade, Technology, Climate Change, Economy, Education
Sanitation

Enhanced quality of life through sustained sanitation: India country paper

Since SACOSAN-III, held in New Delhi in November 2008, India has continued to accord priority to sanitation at the national, state and local government levels. This has resulted in continued improvements in access to sanitation, increased attention to usage of toilets and

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
Department of Drinking Water Supply
Tags:
Rural Sanitation, Urban Sanitation, India, Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan (Total Sanitation Campaign), Solid Waste, Waste Management, Urbanisation, Sanitation
Habitat And Urbanisation

Impact of urban land transformation on water bodies in Srinagar city, India

Human actions rather than natural forces are the source of most contemporary changes in the state and flows of the biosphere. Understanding these actions and the social forces that drive them is crucial to understanding, modelling and predicting local, regional as well as global environmental change and also for managing and responding to such change. The present study investigates the patterns of urban land transformation in Srinagar City, which lies in fragile hill eco-system of Kashmir valley. The results points towards unplanned and haphazard urban expansion and transformation.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
Shahab Fazal, Arshad Amin
Journal of Environmental Protection
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2
142-153
Tags:
Urbanisation, Lakes, Srinagar (T), Urban Land Use, Floods, Wetlands, Water Pollution, Drainage, Urban Habitat, Jammu & Kashmir
Habitat And Urbanisation

Inclusive cities

Slums, informal settlements, and dilapidated inner-city tenements are problems that many cities in Asia and the Pacific struggle with while their economies try to modernize and develop.

Publication Date: 
01/04/2011
Florian Steinberg, Michael Lindfield
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Urbanisation, Urban Development, India, Indonesia, Philippines, Slum Upgrading, Slums, Poverty, Private Sector
Climate Change

Cities and climate change: Global report on human settlements 2011

This new report reviews linkages between urbanization and climate change. It illustrates the significant contribution of urban areas to climate change & also highlights the potentially devastating effects of climate change on urban populations. Reviews policy responses, practices emerging in urban areas to mitigate and adapt to climate change, as well as their potential achievements & constraints.

Publication Date: 
29/03/2011
United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat)
Tags:
Urbanisation, Climate Change, Climate Adaptation, Climate Mitigation, Global, India, Migration
Climate Change

Urban growth, climate change, and freshwater availability

Nearly 3 billion additional urban dwellers are forecasted by 2050, an unprecedented wave of urban growth. While cities struggle to provide water to these new residents, they will also face equally unprecedented hydrologic changes due to global climate change.

Publication Date: 
28/03/2011
Robert I. McDonald, Pamela Green, Deborah Balk & et al
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
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0
1
Tags:
Climate Change, Urbanisation, Water Demand, Developing Countries, India, Western Ghats, Freshwater Ecosystems, River Basin, Hydrology, China, Global, Water Distribution, Ganga, Fisheries
Habitat And Urbanisation

Panel Suggests 15% Increase in Urban Development Funding

Isher Ahluwalia-led panel says the govt should invest at least . 32.4 lakh cr in 20 years

The government needs to scale up urban development funding by at least 15% per annum in the 12th Plan (2011-17) to meet the challenges of rapid urbanisation in the country, an expert committee has said.

Citing the need for an investment of .

Publication Date: 
08/03/2011
Economic Times (New Delhi)
Tags:
Urbanisation, Habitat And Urbanisation, Urban Development, India, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM)
Habitat And Urbanisation

Panel for unified command for urbanization

A high-powered expert committee on urban infrastructure, chaired by Isher Judge Ahluwalia, has recommended bringing the Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JnNURM) and the housing and urban poverty alleviation under a single unified command to ensure that sustainable urbanisation was facilitated in the coun try without leaving out the urban poor out from the scheme of things.

The c

Publication Date: 
08/03/2011
Asian Age (New Delhi)
Tags:
Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Habitat And Urbanisation, Urbanisation, India, Solid Waste, Sewage, Population

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