India

 Naini Lake polluted by sewage and construction waste

NAINITAL town's Naini lake is shrinking and its water becoming increasingly murky. The quality of water in the lake, which is the sole source of drinking water for the people of the town, has

Publication Date: 
14/01/2007
Bidisha Kumar
Down to Earth
Tags:
Lake Pollution, Lakes, Water Quality, Urbanisation, Urban Planning, Urban Environment, Waste Disposal, Supreme Court, High Court, India, Nainital (D)
Water Supply

Impact analysis of urbanization on surface and ground waters using RS-GIS techniques

Human-induced modifications on land and water are posing a serious threat to geo-environment in general and groundwater regime in particular along the fringe areas of most cities in the world.

Publication Date: 
01/01/2007
Bhavana Umrikar, Uma Iyer
Urban India
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Tags:
Water Pollution, Surface Water, Mula, Groundwater, Urban Water Supply, Urbanisation, Water Supply, Remote Sensing, Geographical Information Systems (GIS), Pune (T)
Climate Change

Adapting to climate change in urban areas: the possibilities and constraints in low- and middle-income nations

This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world's population and a large proportion of the people and economic activities most at risk from sea-level rise and from the heatwaves, storms and floods whose frequency and/or intensity climate change is likely to increase.

Publication Date: 
Dec 2006
David Satterthwaite, Saleemul Huq, Mark Pelling
IIED
Tags:
Health Effects, Climate Change, Sea Level Rise, Floods, Climate Adaptation, Storms, Urbanisation, Urban Management, Poverty
Habitat And Urbanisation

Global report on human settlements 2007: enhancing urban safety and security

This report addresses three major threats to the safety and security of cities, which are: urban crime and violence; insecurity of tenure and forced evictions; and natural and human-made

Publication Date: 
31/12/2006
UN-Habitat
Tags:
Environment, Economy, Urbanisation, Urban Planning, Urban Management, Urban Housing, International Cooperation, Global, Natural Disasters
India

 Bangalore Mysore corridor leads nowhere

on october6, 2006 the Karnataka State Pollution Control Board (kspcb) withdrew the consent for establishment it had granted to Bangalore-based Nandi Infrastructure Corridor Enterprises (nice) for the

Publication Date: 
14/11/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), State Pollution Control Board (SPCB), Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Roads, Ministry Of Environment And Forests (MOEF), India, Karnataka, Bangalore (D), Mysore (D)
India

 Water doesn't drain in Kolkata, West Bengal

Click here to enlarge Kolkata went under water on September 24, 2006. The Meteorological Office said that Kolkata received 211.6 mm of rain on 22 September. That

Publication Date: 
30/10/2006
Down to Earth
Tags:
Drainage, Floods, Urbanisation, Urban Waterlogging, India, West Bengal, Calcutta (D), Rainfall
Poverty

 Creation of Greater Bangalore will strain the city's resources

karnataka's decade-old plan for creating a Greater Bangalore entity has finally got a fillip with the state government's recent go-ahead for the merger of seven city municipal councils (cmcs), one

Publication Date: 
14/10/2006
Nidhi Jamwal
Down to Earth
Tags:
Urban Water Supply, Urban Habitat, Urbanisation, Urban Development, Urban Planning, Urban Management, Nagarpalikas, Urban Sanitation, Political Decentralisation, Karnataka, Bangalore (D)
Habitat And Urbanisation

City development plan for Varanasi

The CDP provides both a perspective and vision for the development of a city.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2006
Municipal Corporation
Tags:
Urban Development, Varanasi (T), Urbanisation, Infrastructure Development, Transport, Slums, Water Supply, Solid Waste, Urban Environment, City Tracker
Habitat And Urbanisation

Kanpur city development plan under JNNURM: final report

City Development Plan for Kanpur city is both a perspective and vision for the future development. Kanpur City Development Plan (CDP) is the culmination of a study which was commenced by JPS Associates. This report is based on invaluable inputs the consultants received from the various stakeholders and the officers associated with the development of the city.

Publication Date: 
01/08/2006
JPS Associates (P) Ltd. Consultants
Tags:
Land Use, Economy, Transport, Urbanisation, Jawaharlal Nehru National Urban Renewal Mission (JNNURM), Urban Planning, Housing, Urban Transport, Roads, Solid Waste, India, Uttar Pradesh, Kanpur (T), Environment Management, JPS Associates (P) Ltd. Consultants, Habitat And Urbanisation, City Tracker
Transport

Energy efficiency and climate change considerations for on-road transport in Asia

Stabilizing and reducing atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations is essential to global sustainability and this will require intensified and ongoing efforts to increase overall global energy efficiency and a shift from fossil fuels to non-carbon energy sources. The improvements in global energy efficiency need to be achieved in a context of a growing population and economy.

Publication Date: 
19/05/2006
Asian Development Bank
Tags:
Climate Change, Green House Gases, Energy Efficiency, Biofuel, Transport, Public Transport, Urbanisation, Asia, India, Developing Countries

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