Urban Environmental Evolution: The Case of Mumbai
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This Paper presents the environmental evolution of Mumbai city. The concept of eI1vironmental evolution as developed and adapted by Sai and Imum is applied to stu~ the. p~t enviropw.ental status of Mumbai. In '" .... '.,., ' ,~.. ,! ..> . order to study its dynamics the entire process of environmental evolution is cIWideclintotDur types viz. poverty related environmental issues, industrialization and urbanizatiolt reratcdenvirOnm~ issues. rapid economic growth related environmental issues and wealthy lifestyle related environmental issUes. Suitable indicators are identified for all the above issues. Dynamics of those indicators over the"economic developnlent is studied. Temporal representation of respective indicator for each type of the environmental problem presented the distribution of these types of environmental problems on a longitudinal scale. In the analysis it is found that, Mumbai, at present. falls under "rapid economic development related issue" stage. Poverty related environmental issues show very little significance with industrialization and urban related environmental issues coexisting with rapid economic development related environmental issues. This provides interesting inputs !o the Mumbai policy makers in designing the environmental action plan to avoid various environmental costs that other cities have already gone through.
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