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Measuring air quality: Learning health impacts
Measuring air quality: Learning health impacts - a presentation by Anumita Roychowdhury at STEPPING TOGETHER: A Conclave of Changemakers for Clean Air and Sustainable Mobility held in New Delhi from September
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Govt asked to 'chalk out modalities
The Delhi High Court has directed six senior officials including the DDA vice-chairman, municipal commissioner and secretaries of the Urban Development departments of the Central and Delhi
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New satellite maps provide planners improved urban sprawl insight
A major advance in satellite-based land surface mapping has led to the creation of more accurate and detailed maps of our cities. These maps provide urban planners with a better understanding of city
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Draft urban municipal waste management action plan for state of Uttarakhand
The Urban Directorate, Government of Uttarakhand has prepared a draft State Level Action Plan for the management, handling and disposal of municipal solid waste in accordance with the Municipal Solid Waste
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ENVIRONMENTAL DEGRADATION
The state of environment in Pakistan is "alarming' and is costing the country from US $1 billion to US $2.1 billion per year, which comes to 2.5 per cent to five per cent of the gross domestic
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City air: from foul to critical- revised norms highlight violation
Calcutta began the week as a polluted city but will end it as a critically polluted city. The new standards for air quality announced by the environment ministry on Wednesday have pushed Calcutta firmly into the hall of shame, with the toxic count of at least two major pollutants being 1.5 times higher than the permissible limit.
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Pune citizens keep watchful eye on their city
Concerned residents of the city have formed groups to ensure the municipal authorities take care to keep the city clean, green and functioning.
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Managing natural resources in Rwanda’s districts under competing development pressures
Rwanda has committed itself to becoming a middle-income country by 2020. The country’s Vision 2020 and Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategies both set out goals to intensify agriculture,
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Effectivity of vehicular banning and its reflection in disease incidence in Kolkata
Kolkata is one of the most polluted cities of the world. The city has been plagued by one of the most prominent pollution problems of the of the world, the air pollution. The time period of 2000-2008 saw
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Informality and state ‘Jugaad’: how urban governance works in Mumbai
How does the state govern cities where much of the economy is informal, on the margins of state regulatory institutions? In this paper, draw on field research in Mumbai to a present an empirically-based
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City-level decoupling: urban resource flows and the governance of infrastructure transitions
Building upon previous work of the International Resource Panel on Decoupling Natural Resource Use and Environmental Impacts from Economic Growth, this report examines the potential for decoupling at the
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Framing news on environment
In June 2014, the Narmada Control Authority (NCA) of the Government of India approved the Gujarat Government’s application to increase the height of the Sardar Sarovar dam by 17.6 metres to 138.6 metres.
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The politics of progress on water and sanitation in Colombo, Sri Lanka
This study explores the politics of urban water supply and sanitation delivery in the city of Colombo, Sri Lanka, where improvements in coverage have been achieved within a national context characterised
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District human development report: North 24 Parganas
The district human development report of North 24 Parganas portrays the diverse features of this district and also depicts the multilayered development that has taken place, over the past five to six decades. Burgeoning urbanisation and very presence of the Sunderbans open up a rare opportunity to the policy makers and practitioners of development of further study the intrinsic nature of
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Green activists slam flyovers plan
Environment activists on Monday met Municipal Commissioner Praveensinh Pardeshi to protest against the Pune Municipal Corporation's (PMC) proposal of constructing more flyovers in the city, saying that these flyovers do not help improve the overall traffic situation and therefore urged the civic body to withdraw the proposal.
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To check pollution in J-K, study tours for MLAs
Looking for new ways to deal with the rising ecological challenges in urban areas of the state, the Omar Abdullah government is sending out delegations of MLAs on study tours across the country. In the
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Chief Administrator asked to appear in court over garbage dumping site
Peeved over the inordinate delay being caused in settling the dispute over land to be provided for a garbage dumping site, the Punjab and Haryana High Court on Monday asked the Chief Administrator, Haryana
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Emissions from Indias intercity and intracity road transport
This paper aims to stimulate debate on the quantification and mitigation of greenhouse gas and air pollutant emissions from transport infrastructure, policies and projects. It also focuses on highlighting the need to intensify efforts to reduce emissions from both intra and intercity movement of people and goods.
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Telangana Socio-Economic Outlook 2018
Among the 31 districts of Telangana, 26 have literacy rates below the State average of 66.54 percent. According to the ‘Telangana Socio-Economic Outlook 2018’ report released by the government, Hyderabad