How Community Engagement is Key To Fight Urban Sustainability Challenges?
The recent rise of civic activism in India for local and national issues exposes key challenge – Citizens are unhappy & anguished.…
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Air Pollution,The Biggest Challenge for India’s health in 2020
Developed countries started recognizing Air Pollution as a threat to flora and fauna soon after the famous “London Smog: 1952”, which killed…
How Urban Poor Are Being Left Out of Climate Actions in India?
In urban areas in India, the urban poor usually are forced to settle in slums, squatters, and other informal settlements; often on land use that is not only at high risk but also that have a low potential for contestations (such as adjacent to railway tracks, or in low land areas).
What’s in Store for Sustainability, Corporate Social Responsibility and Climate Action in Budget2020
Indian budget, Budget2020, preparation process now over and to be presented on the floor of the parliament by the Union Finance Minister…
Bring Paradigm Change: Vision Zero For Road Safety in India
The 31st road safety week 2020 is over. Once more, India’s dubious record on road safety was the front and centre of…
Making Walkability in Vogue in India, Still a Far Cry
In the growing urban centres of today’s world, accessibility and walkability have become one of the growing concerns. Accessibility, in context to…
Rethinking Urban Livelihood: Thriving Informal Economy in Urban Areas in India
Globalisation vs ‘Right to the city’ Over the years, economic policies and strategies adopted for sustainable urban development had resulted in a…
What Nations Can Learn from Australia Bushfire?
We have seen enough of what has been happening in forests of Amazon, US state of California and more significantly recently in…
The Confession of a Young Anthropologist in Dharavi
I worked with a research collective called Urbz that has a strong base in Dharavi, Asia’s largest slum, lies on prime property…
The Himalaya’s Himalayan Task- Fighting Plastic Menace
The mighty Himalayas is facing a Himalayan crisis of plastic menace. The picturesque Himalaya is infested with widely strewn plastic packets and…
