Establishing the Rural-Urban Environmental Linkages
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M. Tech Project -I (TD 695)
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Environment Sustainability & Natural Resource Management
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Abstract:
The sustainability of Rural-Urban interface is critical considering the rapid urbanization trends,
especially in developing countries, which are majorly an outcome of increase in small towns.
These Rural-Urban (Ru-Urban) areas act as a linkage between the rural and urban as a supplier
of resources as well as assimilative capacities. The assimilative capacities of the Ru-Urban
areas would be challenged with the growing population and increasing constraints on natural
resources. Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) and waste water would impact the
assimilative capacities with the sheer magnitude of waste generated on a daily basis and its
heterogeneous character. While resources insecurity can be an outcome of changing spatial
structures along the rural-urban interface, leading to reduction in the sizes of resources pools.
Designing of sustainable plan for these small towns require accommodation of the
infrastructural and institutional inadequacies along with lack of scale of economies of these
areas. This report studies the concept of urbanization and its variations in Indian context. It
attempts to explore the rural-urban linkages in close association with environmental
sustainability. Various aspects of urbanization and rural-urban linkages impacting the spatial
structure and new town development have been addressed through the report. Identification of
sustainability challenges of new townships with rural-urban linkages, along with anticipated
faster rate of urbanization, is presented. Trends in urbanization and spatial transformation have
been identified and a quantification rural urban linkage has been attempted for the case of
Palghar.