Shailesh Desai

CONSEQUENCES OF UNBALANCED URBANIZATION                   The consequences are more severe and it lead to The process of urbanization is preceding a pace without commensurate growth in industrialization and the rise in the level of overall economic development. Unplanned urban growth, for instance causes growth of slums and squatter settlements, varying effects on environmental degradation and increased burden on existing infrastructure. The general problems which are the byproduct of certain kind of urbanization characteristic of low income countries are: 1.   Shortage of   houses 2. Critical inadequacies in public utilities, power, water, health facilities 3. Deteriorating urban environment, urban unemployment, congestion 4. Acute poverty 5. Slums proliferation

                Probably most of the major environmental problems of the next century will result from the continuation and sharpening of existing problems that currently do not receive enough political attention. The problems are not necessarily noticed in many countries or then nothing is done even the situation has been detected. The most emerging issues are climate changes, freshwater scarcity, deforestation, and fresh water pollution and population growth. These problems are very complex and their interactions are hard to define. It is very important to examine problems through the social-economic-cultural system . Even the interconnections between environmental problems are now better known, we still lack exact information on how the issues are   linked, on what degree they interact and what are the most effective measures. [A] IMPACTS ON THE ATMOSPHERE AND CLIMATE 1. The creation ...

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION ANALYSIS:            What is the need for monitoring environmental pollution and analyse the data thus collected? This is avexing question. One cannot think of control measures unless one knows what is the extent of pollution? A lot of awareness can be created about pollution, A great awareness is already there in urban society in large cities on pollution, but we cannot effectively control pollution in the absence of authentic data about air pollution, water pollution, water treatment, industrial effluents, sewage management, land and pesticides pollution or abatement of noise pollution. Such measures can be effective only if we have reliable data on exact levels of pollution. Such reliable data can be obtained by monitoring of environmental pollution at site. The knowledge of levels of pollution will enable us to use and adopt effective, reliable and economic measures for their control. To control p...