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Urban Issues and Environment Challenges takes a hard look at a wide spectrum of urban and environment issues, both general and specific. Under the gamut of urban issues it examines the Fallout of Urbanization, Problems of Municipla Governance, Human Resource Development, Legislation, Resource Mobilization, Urban Services, Urban Poor and Citizen Participation. In the section on environment it analyses the issues of Global Warming, Climate Change and the Copenhagen ...
This book is intended to provide an insight into different aspects of urban development with a view to ensuring sustainability, without which urban development could be counter productive. The authors of different papers have highlighted the significance of sustainable development in the urban context and have suggested measures to achieve it. These include, acquisition of new managerial skills and community participation for optimum utilization of scarce ...
The rapid pace of urbanization during the last few decades has resulted in explosive growth of cities throughout the world. With urbanization comes the challenge of providing jobs, shelter, clean environment, portable water – a challenge which is not being met as in evident in most of the cities in the developing countries where almost 30 to 40 per cent of the population lives below poverty line and mostly reside in the slum. UN studies now project that mega ...