Environment

Introduction Buildings apart from requirement of water, energy and material also generate waste. Construction and demolition (C&D) waste is generated in the construction, maintenance and disposal phases of a building. This includes demolished structures debris, renovations in buildings and construction and repair of road projects, flyovers, bridges, etc. World Bank report 2012 says that about …

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Sustainability ideally means meeting the needs of the present generation using the resources that are available without bothering the future generations to come. It can also be defined as an integration of 3 pillars of social, economic and environmental columns. Under this concept, people look for an approach that is equally balanced with long term …

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The Megatrend Globally, the urban population had rapidly increased from 10% in 1900 to 55% in 2018, and by 2050, it is projected to rise up to 68% (1). Such an intense rate of urban growth has increased environmental vulnerability such as unplanned land use/land cover (LULC) change, rapid urban expansion to the peripheral areas, …

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Radioactive compounds are either distributed across the food chain when released into the atmosphere or are accumulated in living organisms. Other than radioisotopes that normally occur, human activity produces large quantities like the construction of nuclear power plants, the manufacturing of nuclear weapons, and atomic bomb testing. Any adverse impact caused by radioactive contaminants or …

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India is the 5th largest economy in the world as per World ranking, surpassing countries like United Kingdom and France, with a GDP exponentially increasing every year.1 While GDP marks the economic development of the country, showing India’s progress in the capital driven market, how does one look at the detrimental effects of such growth …

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Will you prefer to live in a house near a beautiful lake facing it and with greenery around or a canal of sewer water? This is how externalities affect any entity and hence the decisions. What are externalities? Externalities are unintentional side effects of an activity affecting people other than those directly involved in the …

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