IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/h/pal/palchp/978-1-137-33975-1_6.html
   My bibliography  Save this book chapter

Natural Environment: Towards (Re)Generative Cities

In: India’s Reluctant Urbanization

Author

Listed:
  • Piyush Tiwari
  • Ranesh Nair
  • Pavan Ankinapalli
  • Jyoti Rao
  • Pritika Hingorani
  • Manisha Gulati

Abstract

Modern urban development in India has largely ignored the issue of the natural environment. Indeed, the two are often perceived as existing in separate silos — with the environment as an afterthought if that. Large infrastructure projects, land reclamation, water delivery, and waste disposal systems are planned with little thought to their impact on the environment. Cities draw increasingly heavily on the natural resources of their surroundings. For instance, almost every Indian city relies on the surrounding rural areas for its water supply, and then pumps the wastewater into neighbouring rivers, lakes, or the sea. The air pollution generated by cities is not partially absorbed by greenery within the city, but spreads to a wider area. Similarly, solid waste is often disposed of in landfills around the city, polluting the earth and groundwater.

Suggested Citation

  • Piyush Tiwari & Ranesh Nair & Pavan Ankinapalli & Jyoti Rao & Pritika Hingorani & Manisha Gulati, 2015. "Natural Environment: Towards (Re)Generative Cities," Palgrave Macmillan Books, in: India’s Reluctant Urbanization, chapter 6, pages 174-192, Palgrave Macmillan.
    • Handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33975-1_6
    DOI: 10.1057/9781137339751_6
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    To our knowledge, this item is not available for download. To find whether it is available, there are three options:
    1. Check below whether another version of this item is available online.
    2. Check on the provider's web page whether it is in fact available.
    3. Perform a search for a similarly titled item that would be available.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:pal:palchp:978-1-137-33975-1_6. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: Sonal Shukla or Springer Nature Abstracting and Indexing (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.palgrave.com .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.