Category: Urban Green
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Soil Inoculation as Steering Tool for Restoration Process
Vijaylakshmi Suman In urban spaces, where major regions are controlled by humans, the degradation of ecosystems is likely to happen. In such circumstances, ecological restoration offers a mode for recovery so that biodiversity can be protected. However, the process is neither easy nor linear, due to abiotic (for example eutrophication) and biotic (for example composition…
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Huge Opportunity and Even Bigger Challenges: Wetland Restoration in the Urban
Ajay Immanuel Gonji It has been a little over a year and a half since Ambedkar University Delhi (AUD) entered into a management agreement with the Delhi Development Authority (DDA) to restore a small relict of the Jahangirpuri group of wetlands. The Dheerpur Wetland Park (DWP) is an ambitious collaborative project between AUD and DDA…
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Ecological Restoration and Gender
By Meenakshi Singh Changing global climate patterns, receding forests, intensive industrialization, urbanization and concretization have all led to awakening of environmental conscience discussed by people like Aldo Leopold (in Sand County Almanac and The Land Ethic) and Rachel Carsen (in The Silent Spring). Concerns for environment have been on the rise since late twentieth century…
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The Common Man’s Environmentalism
Saurabh Chowdhury Over time, urban spaces have been characterized by their infrastructure. Better the infrastructure better is the city. And with the focus being so much on infrastructure, nature has taken a back seat. Urban dwellers have become dissociated with nature, and the common man’s environmentalism seems to have replaced knowledge and understanding of nature.…
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Ecology and City or Ecology in City?
By Vijaylakshmi Suman Along with several issues and debates around urbanisation, the concept of urban ecology also arose around 1990’s- states a new article published in Science. Image by: kamalnishad As the author writes, there was a need to introduce the discipline of urban ecology. This would help to increase our knowledge of human and ecological…
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Referencing is Central to Ecological Restoration?
Vijaylakshmi Suman Ecologists use referencing information in ecological restoration to define pre-set goals and approach to evaluating the success of a project. The larger goal is also to determine the condition under which restored ecosystem would sustain on its own. The selection and use of reference information is a central and defining issue for restoration…
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Does Inclusion of People in Ecological Restoration Need a New Kind of Language?
Vijaylakshmi Suman Contemporary projects of ecological restoration are keen to incorporate societal concern as an integral part of the process. The practice of ecological restoration is accepting perception of public and desires towards the natural environment. These public figures are mostly lay people, volunteers, academic etc. Participation of diverse population will provide the opportunity to…