Urban ecosystems of Kurukshetra, India, an amalgamations of eco-friendly, historical as well as archaeological adverse facades: A case study

Kurukshetra, a state of India is a historical place having global significance linked with its multifaceted aspects concerning education, science education, engineering colleges, museums and above all some sites and spots which are witnesses to the events of world famous war namely, “Mahabharata”. The studies reveal that urbanization processes have turned rural Kurukshetra into a modern semi-urban area with distinct urban features by creating “Urban Estates”. This is an activity which has two faces: Eco-friendly face and adverse ecological face.The generation of an attraction, ultra modern city equipped with vast green belts; impressive avenues having intense plantations of trees, bushes and profusely dotted with Civil Parks is a phenomenal change. One of the most impressive eco-friendly façade of the new environs is the ambience presence of orchards and plant nurseries and there is practice of “Kitchens-Waste” disposal which is disposed off at a safe place to convert it into organic manure. The best of sanitary conditions are in place which is one more environment friendly aspects. A very well laid out “Mini-Secretariat” encompassing virtually each and every office of the District Administration is intensely covered by very thick cover of trees and a new experiment, pioneered first by Haryana Govt.However, the negative features are many to negate the over all positive features. Foremost is related with discarding the traditional and endemic trees like Shisham Dalbergia sissoo, Neem Azadirachta indica, Beri Morus alba, Peepal Ficus religiosa, Banyan Ficus benghalensis and Mango Mangifera indica trees for tree plantations in favour exotic varieties.

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Do abandoned tree plantations resemble natural riparian forests? A case study from northeast Greece

Botanica Helvetica ◽

10.1007/s00035-007-0796-9 ◽

2007 ◽

Vol 117 (2) ◽

pp. 125-142 ◽

Cited By ~ 9

Author(s):

Grigorios Vasilopoulos ◽

Ioannis Tsiripidis ◽

Vasiliki Karagiannakidou

Keyword(s):

Riparian Forests ◽

Tree Plantations

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Strategies to promote sustainability in higher education institutions

International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education ◽

10.1108/ijshe-06-2016-0102 ◽

2017 ◽

Vol 18 (7) ◽

pp. 1018-1038 ◽

Cited By ~ 19

Author(s):

Issa Ibrahim Berchin ◽

Vanessa dos Santos Grando ◽

Gabriela Almeida Marcon ◽

Louise Corseuil ◽

José Baltazar Salgueirinho Osório de Andrade Guerra

Keyword(s):

Higher Education ◽

Scientific Literature ◽

Higher Education Institutions ◽

Public Institution ◽

Content Type ◽

Federal Institute ◽

Sustainability In Higher Education ◽

Education Science ◽

Education In Brazil

Purpose This paper aims to analyze strategies that promote sustainability in higher education institutions (HEIs), focusing on the case study of a federal institute of higher education in Brazil. Design/methodology/approach The research was based on a scientific literature review on sustainability in HEIs, to identify the recurrent actions for sustainability in these institutions; and a case study of a federal institute of higher education in Brazil, to illustrate how these actions are being implemented by HEIs. Findings Concerns about sustainability, prompted by the Brazilian federal legislature, led federal HEI to change its internal processes, infrastructure and organizational culture toward sustainability. Practical implications The findings presented in this study, more specifically the sustainability plan of the Federal Institute for Education, Science and Technology of Santa Catarina, aligned with the recommendations proposed, can be used and replicated in other HEIs. Originality/value Scientific literature about organizational changes led by sustainability concerns, in HEIs specifically, still needs more attention in the academia. By addressing the case of a Brazilian public institution of higher education, this paper contributes to the literature on sustainability in higher education by reporting the process of implementation of a sustainability plan.

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Case Study: Controlled Defoliation of Mangifera indica (Mango) against Anthracnose Disease

Confronting Global Climate Change ◽

10.1201/9780429284847-21 ◽

2019 ◽

pp. 333-342

Author(s):

Mark Anglin Harris

Keyword(s):

Mangifera Indica ◽

Anthracnose Disease

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PROJETO PEDAGÓGICO DO CURSO DE TECNOLOGIA EM PROCESSOS GERENCIAIS DO INSTITUTO FEDERAL DO RS E RELACIONAMENTO INTERPESSOAL COMO CONTEÚDO

Colloquium Humanarum ◽

10.5747/ch.2020.v17.h492 ◽

2020 ◽

Vol 17 (1) ◽

pp. 417-429

Author(s):

Claudia Simone Cordeiro Pelissoli ◽

Aline Silva De Bona ◽

Luciano Andreatta Carvalho da Costa

Keyword(s):

Interpersonal Relationship ◽

Rio Grande ◽

Rio Grande Do Sul ◽

Porto Alegre ◽

Critical Awareness ◽

Federal Institute ◽

Management Processes ◽

The World ◽

Education Science

This case study deals with the conceptof Interpersonal Relationship, foreseen in the Pedagogical Projects of the course -PPC's Technologist in Management Processes of Campi of the Federal Institute of Education, Science and Technology of Rio Grande do Sul. In addition to being described in PPCs, in profile of the course and the graduate, Interpersonal Relationship is also an extremely valued skill in the world of work. The main objective is to analyze how the concept of Interpersonal Relationship is worked through the courses in Technology inManagement Processes. Paulo Freire's theory and his considerations on critical awareness, dialogicity and humanization served as the basis for this study. The data were generated through interviews with four course coordinators (Porto Alegre, Farroupilha,Osório and Caxias do Sul), in order to analyze their understanding of the concept of Interpersonal Relationship and their insertion throughout the course. The results indicate that the concept of Interpersonal Relationship has a wide approach in some disciplines formalized in the Pedagogical Course Project, but also occurs informally in other disciplines, according to the teachers' pedagogical profile and practices. The work highlights the importance of developing and updating the Pedagogical Course Project, as it is the expression of the course. And it also stresses the relevance of addressing the concept of Interpersonal Relationship in the higher course of Technology in Management Processes, aiming at a humanized formation, extremely valued in the professional sphere.

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INTEGRATED DESIGN FOR FLOOD RISK AND SPATIAL QUALITY—EXAMPLES FROM THE DUTCH DELTA PROGRAMME

Journal of Green Building ◽

10.3992/1943-4618.13.1.157 ◽

2018 ◽

Vol 13 (1) ◽

pp. 157-184

Author(s):

Anne Loes Nillesen

Keyword(s):

The Netherlands ◽

Flood Risk ◽

Design Method ◽

Integrated Design ◽

Safe Place ◽

Delta Programme ◽

Spatial Quality ◽

Dutch Delta ◽

Risk Protection

INTRODUCTION The Netherlands faces a significant flood risk task. In order to remain a safe place to live the Netherlands has to upgrade its extensive flood risk protection system. This results in an elevation and reinforcement task for many of the Netherlands water barriers. When those barriers are positioned in an open landscape, the technical reinforcement is often easy to embed specially. However, many barriers have been built over the years making the reinforcement into a challenging spatial assignment. This article shows different case study examples of a research by design study (performed in the broader context of the Dutch Delta programme) that explores integral design solutions for flood risk and spatial (re)development. The Houston Galveston Bay case study demonstrates the international applicability of the research by design method.

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Farms or Forests? Understanding and Mapping Shifting Cultivation Using the Case Study of West Garo Hills, India

Land ◽

10.3390/land8090133 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 8 (9) ◽

pp. 133 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Kurien ◽

Lele ◽

Nagendra

Keyword(s):

Land Use ◽

State Government ◽

Shifting Cultivation ◽

Northeast India ◽

Tree Plantations ◽

Old Growth Forest ◽

Forest Survey ◽

Garo Hills ◽

Government Statistics

Attempts to study shifting cultivation landscapes are fundamentally impeded by the difficulty in mapping and distinguishing shifting cultivation, settled farms and forests. There are foundational challenges in defining shifting cultivation and its constituent land-covers and land-uses, conceptualizing a suitable mapping framework, and identifying consequent methodological specifications. Our objective is to present a rigorous methodological framework and mapping protocol, couple it with extensive fieldwork and use them to undertake a two-season Landsat image analysis to map the forest-agriculture frontier of West Garo Hills district, Meghalaya, in Northeast India. We achieve an overall accuracy of ~80% and find that shifting cultivation is the most extensive land-use, followed by tree plantations and old-growth forest confined to only a few locations. We have also found that commercial plantation extent is positively correlated with shortened fallow periods and high land-use intensities. Our findings are in sharp contrast to various official reports and studies, including from the Forest Survey of India, the Wastelands Atlas of India and state government statistics that show the landscape as primarily forested with only small fractions under shifting cultivation, a consequence of the lack of clear definitions and poor understanding of what constitutes shifting cultivation and forest. Our results call for an attentive revision of India’s official land-use mapping protocols, and have wider significance for remote sensing-based mapping in other shifting cultivation landscapes.

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Urban vulnerability and resiliency over water-related risks: a case study from Algiers

Water Science & Technology ◽

10.2166/wst.2015.588 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 73 (5) ◽

pp. 1145-1154

Author(s):

Najet Aroua

Keyword(s):

Ad Hoc ◽

Multicriteria Analysis ◽

Urban Ecosystems ◽

Preventive Strategy ◽

Social Interventions ◽

Urban Vulnerability ◽

Resilience Index ◽

Resilience Indicators ◽

Adaptation Ability

The ad hoc management of natural environmental features and inappropriate social interventions could cause vulnerability of thriving urban ecosystems. For instance sub-aerial exposure, water-related hazards, urban intrinsic sensitivity, urban adaptation ability or flexibility and urban transformability factors could contribute a potential danger. In spite of seasonal climatic changes, the exposure indicates a significant geographical determinism whereas the other factors express its antithesis. The present paper aims to adapt a vulnerability–resilience indicators' multicriteria analysis to show the variability and contribution rate with regard to local water-related risks. The municipality of al-Harrash from Algiers has been selected as a case study. The urban vulnerability–resilience closely tied up with a sum of relevant indicators confirmed by the diagnosis items, which are relevant to the local urban and hydro systems. The cumulative sums are obtained from a classification process referring to several criteria implied in the water-related risks. These were formulated here for the purpose of a multicriteria analysis with the objective of assessing the urban vulnerability–resilience index and subsequently orientating the preventive strategy towards different levels of sustainable measures. With this respect the exposure and sensitivity received a significant score while adaptation ability and transformability scored very low.

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Combined Authorities and material participation: The capacity of Green Belt to engage political publics in England

Local Economy The Journal of the Local Economy Policy Unit ◽

10.1177/0269094219839038 ◽

2019 ◽

Vol 34 (2) ◽

pp. 181-195

Author(s):

Quintin Bradley

Keyword(s):

Environmental Planning ◽

Public Identity ◽

Green Belt ◽

Territorial Identity ◽

Urban Containment ◽

Material Interests ◽

Political Communities ◽

Green Belts ◽

Affective Relations

The aim of this paper is to consider the passions aroused by Green Belts in their urban containment function as a political accomplishment that has the capacity to orient publics around new spaces of governance. The paper addresses what it identifies as a problem of relevance in the new Combined Authorities in England where public identity and belonging may be more firmly rooted in other places and settings. It draws on the literature on material participation to locate the capacity to foster public belonging in objects, things and settings, and considers the environmental planning designation of Green Belt as an assemblage of the human and non-human which has the power to connect and contain. In a case study of plans for Green Belt reduction in the Greater Manchester Combined Authority, the paper evidences the power of the non-human to mobilise public engagement and to foster territorial identity. The paper concludes by setting out an approach to public participation that foregrounds the importance of material interests and affective relations with objects and things in the formation of political communities.

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