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| 100 | _aKamala Kant Dube (ed.) | ||
| 245 | 0 | _aUrban environment in India | |
| 260 | _aNew Delhi | ||
| 260 | _bInter- India Pub. | ||
| 260 | _c1988 | ||
| 300 | _a464 | ||
| 520 | _aUrbanisation and industrialisation are causing disturbance in the ecological balance and hence we are experiencing slow but steady deterioration in the quality of urban environment. In this perspective, urban environmental plan-. ning and management are the urgent need of the day and have become a major concern of geographers, plan ners and environmentalists. As yet there is a great dearth of definitive works on Indian cities. This edited book IS a collection of 29 papers dealing with manifold specific Indian Urban environmental problems contributed by about 46 geographers, economists, Sociologists, planners ecologists from all over and India. These papers provide deep insight into all facets of the u ban environment in India. The book comprehensively analy ses and discusses the urbanisation process and population dynamics; the urban pollution originating from the deterioration of urban environment and lastly bring forth certain pertinent suggestions for the planning and man agement of urban ecosystem, supple mented by some case studies of Indian cities of different hierarchy from Har doi, a District headquarters in Uttar Pradesh, to Bombay a Mega city. The suggestions made by experts deserve attention of planners/administrators particularly the one which suggests an integrative approach to check con centration of industries in urban areas by fostering the growth of rural indus tries articulate lopsided development. way to avoid This book will be of to urban geographers, vital interest economists, sociologists, town planners, civil authori ties, government organisations, ecolo and environmental scientists well as those citizens interested in better and healther civic life. | ||
| 650 | _aUrbanisation- India | ||
| 700 | _aSingh , Alok Kumar (ed.) | ||
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