Tag: urbanization
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Carbon Capture and Sequestration: Biotic vs Abiotic
Carbon sequestration and capture is the process of removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and putting it into long-term storage. This method can largely reduce the carbon dioxide emissions into the atmosphere. While some naturally occurring biological processes ensure the carrying out of carbon sequestration from the atmosphere on their own, it is also being…
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When human activities lead to landslides
Overpopulation is not a term unknown to us, and so is deforestation and over-development. But what happens when all of this comes together? The result is often disastrous. One such result of human development is landslide. Landslide can be defined as disintegration or sliding down of debris, a chunk of mountain, cliff or any other…
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Are our Villages Ready to be Globalized?
It is high time that we are heading towards a world of globalization and materialism. Capitalism seems to have taken over everything else. Internet and Insustrialization are commanding people’s life styles all over the world. While accelerating in its primary methods of production i.e agricultural practices, India has been quite fast in adapting itself to…
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Sustainable Urbanization: A Matter of Desire or Desperation?
In very simple words, urbanization is what happens as a result of industrialization, modernization and socio-economic and cultural growth. It is like as more people leave villages and farming and come to settle in cities, urbanization happens. People come and settle down around places where money, wealth, services and opportunities are centralized. Though this process…