India faced with the onslaught of rising temperature
Gurinder Kaur | India Water Portal
Tag Climate Change
Science, Fiction and Sustainability
Anandajit Goswami “Why Science, Fiction and Sustainability?” – The title of this piece connects three words, concepts, thoughts, ideation and at the same time maintains a distinct identity of all of them. The pertinent question to ask is why they…
Flood: An Engineer’s Disaster or a Historian’s Natural process?
Simi Mehta and Amita Bhaduri Floods have been a common occurrence in 21st century South Asian Subcontinent. The repeated events of flooding in Chennai in 2002, 2005 and 2015, the Mumbai floods of 2005, the Pakistan floods of 2010 and…
Responsible Consumption and Production for Climate Action: Towards Effective Waste and Resource Management amid COVID-19 Pandemic
Dr Shyamala Mani The twelfth Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) goal which says Ensure Responsible Consumption and Production patterns, recognizes that consumption and production despite being drivers of the economy have destructive impacts on natural resources. It further goes on to…
Delhi’s Air Pollution and its Solutions
*Dr Gurinder Kaur A World Health Organization (WHO) report, 2012, states 13 of the world’s top 20 most polluted cities are in India. In 2014, researchers of Yale University, USA and WHO declared Delhi as the world’s most polluted city.…
Interlinkages between Urbanization and Climate Change: Identifying and Understanding the Challenges and the Prospects
Abhinav Alakshendra, Arjun Kumar, Simi Mehta | Journal of Regional and City Planning, Vol. 31 No. 3 (2020)
Assessing Sri Lanka’s State Response Readiness to Mitigate Climate Disasters
Climate Change Scenario Contemporary humanity is experiencing discernible impacts of a changing climate and extreme weather events. The inevitable consequences of anthropogenic climate change often expressed as loss and damage, along with adaptation and mitigation, have become indispensable topics of…