Environmental and Climate Change
Environment in urban cities is damaging gradually, starting from bad air quality to worst water quality. We are depleting our resource at a pace that our future generation could not even see that they ever existed. Planning of environment in cities is a crucial practice and considering it in a holistic manner is necessary i.e. Natural environment, social, political and economic to achieve sustainable outcomes. Our objective is to conserve natural resources and bio-diversity by following methods of scientific process and planning for sustainable development without regard to traditional disciplinary boundaries.
Air pollution in today’s date is one of the major issues faced by many cities around the globe. As per WHO, 3.7 million premature death happens due to air pollution each year. Addressing urban air quality is emerging to be top environmental challenges. Increasing burden of population in developing countries is worsening the situation. In India, many cities such as Delhi, Gurugram, Faridabad, Bhiwadi, etc are having facing worst level of air quality. We carry out research in the following areas:
· Source Apportionment studies
Different Green House Gases(GHGs) such as Carbon Dioxide, Methane, Nitrous Oxide, etc are present in earth’s surface. They create a blanket in the environment which traps the heat required for sustenance of life on Earth. Due to anthropogenic activities especially burning of fossil fuels has led to increase in average temperature of Earth surface. The impacts of global warming can be disastrous i.e. rising sea level, melting of glaciers, changes in weather patterns, etc. We must respond to it at the earliest before we regret. We should move towards non-conventional sources of energy that can reduce the overall greenhouse gases in the environment. We carry out research in the following areas:
We know that energy is source of all the functioning happen around the globe. Introduction to new technologies demands for high reserves for energy and conventional sources are depleting at a faster rate which may last for few more decades. We need to bring in technologies to run the planet on non-conventional renewable energy sources. We encourage ourselves to work on various sources of renewable energy:
Cities being a major focus of investment in terms of infrastructure carry a burden of risk from natural and man-made calamities. The readiness of a city to face any disaster can save a lot of resources. A city should be prepared enough to absorb the impacts of a disaster and recover from it with least damage possible. The component of resilience for a city to stand on its own is mentioned below:
· Environmentally Resilient
· Institutionally Resilient
As per UN WATER “Water scarcity can mean scarcity in availability due to physical shortage, or scarcity in access due to the failure of institutions to ensure a regular supply or due to a lack of adequate infrastructure.” The water currently has not much of a shortage issue around the global but because of our increasing demand we need to think about the availability of fresh water. Some regions have already started to show the trends of waste shortage.
· Water Demand supply gap studies
· Groundwater conservation
· Water Quality Assessment
· Urban Water and sanitation policy
