Cities and urban heat island effect
There is a need for understanding the urban heat island effect so it can be mitigated early on for ensuring sustainable urbanization.
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Urban95 Global Convening on Air Pollution Impact on Toddlers
The Bernard van Leer Foundation convened a gathering of people for supporting healthy early childhood development in the cities of India.
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Mahindra World City Confluence 2019 Pushes Towards The Rise of Resilience
The forum emphasized on measures to facilitate urban resilience to positively adapt and transform towards sustainability.
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Urban Renewal from Southern India: Amaravati to Become Innovation Hub
Andhra Pradesh has decided to make the state an Innovation Valley and its capital Amaravati as an Innovation Hub!
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Anthropogenic Climate Change, An Urban Reality Check
Anthropogenic climate change is the abnormal increase in global surface temperature due to emission of greenhouse gases by human activities.
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Universalisation of Roshni: the Green Innovation for Sustainable Habitats Initiative at the President’s Estate
The Roshni initiative, which was launched in 2008 has been an effort to help and equip the residents of the President’s Estate to live in harmony with nature.
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New Delhi International Conference on Cities & Climate Change
Cities cover less than 1% of the planet’s surface, and are home to around 50% of the world’s population, and many of them see a rapid growth trend. Taken together, …
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Jairam Ramesh Advocates Three Task Approach for Tackling Climate Change
“We should carry three tasks namely mandatory fuel economic standard, improvement in quality of fuel and fiscal policy regime. The immediate task ahead at us is to have Mandatory Fuel …
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Celebrating World Green Building Week for Sustainable Development
Impuri Shimray speaks to Daman Sood of IEEE on the role of green buildings in the creation of healthier and more sustainable communities as well as trend and future of green buildings in India.
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Cities and Slums and How we see Them
Recently I revisited Oscar Lewis’ thesis of “Culture of Poverty.” Simply stated it tells you that context determines every thing. If you wear rose coloured glasses, everything appears red and …
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Invite: Seminar on Water for Indian Cities
A disturbing phenomenon observed in most developing countries of the world is the failure of city governments in meeting the basic needs of the urban population. It is a well …
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Coral Reefs
The 14th of November, also known as Bal Divas, is the birthday of Chacha Nehru–our first Prime Minister and to put it in the current context–Rahul Gandhi’s great grand father. Continuity, …
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