Management of wetlands has received insufficient attention in the national watersector agenda. As a result, many of the wetlands in urban and rural areas are subject to anthropogenic pressures. India is signatory to Ramsar ...

One of the most worrying threats to our planet at present is global warming. The main cause of global warming are the greenhouse gases which block the heat received from the sun and don’t allow it to escape from the ...

Urban flooding is not an unknown event and is one of the growing concern around the world. This happens mainly due to uneven distribution of rainfall, rapid urbanization, encroachments, and solid waste dumping in drainage, ...

Urbanization is a necessity of the current times. The world is expected to become more urbanized as we peek into future. However, urbanization has brought about changes – both positive and negative to the social, economic ...

Rivers are a source of fresh surface water and have become the focal points of development with time. Drastic increase in population has led to degradation of water resources. Five elements essential to keep a river healthy ...

Cities in developing world face pressure in terms of increase in demand of resources, infrastructure, services and housing .Now a days cities are experiencing the effect of climate change as some parts are becoming drier ...

Dams fulfill many developmental objectives of a country such as Energy Sufficiency & Irrigation Potential Enhancement. These achievements are accompanied by some adverse impacts on the environment. Increase in the occurrence ...

The world has now reached a threshold limit beyond which survival of human beings would become difficult. The cities are growing in sizes resulting in a huge number of peri urban outgrowths which host the excessive population ...

Micro-climate changes due to urbanization are epitomized by the urban heat island (UHI), which is characterized by temperature differences between urban and rural areas. Unprecedented growth has resulted in the removal of ...