Volume : VI, Issue : VI, June - 2017

URBANISATION v/s ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS IN DARJEELING HILLY AREAS: ITS IMPACT AND MANAGEMENT

Pratik Chakraborty

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 Environment where we live and thrive is the source of life on earth, where every action, growth and development of mankind takes place. As society expand, shrinkage of environmental arena takes place in an unplanned way. Demographical interference viz. population growth, rapid unplanned urbanisation, development projects etc. leads to degradation of mountain ecosystem of Darjeeling, and its adjacent areas. The methodology adopted during this study is based on various primary and secondary data collected from trusted sources (Government & NGO’s), along with some statistical measures were included for quantitative analysis of the final result. The changing nature of human habitation and its impact on that area were analysed based on the data between 1999 and 2012.  Both qualitative and quantitative analysis was given importance in this research. This paper mainly attempts to identify how changing demography and dynamic expansion of society causes environmental threats and what will be its impact in future. It reveals from the study that how man–environment relationship is changing and development and destruction taking place silently. At the end of this paper some management approaches on various issues were discussed which will be helpful to researchers for further analysis.

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PRATIK CHAKRABORTY, URBANISATION v/s ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS IN DARJEELING HILLY AREAS: ITS IMPACT AND MANAGEMENT, INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH : VOLUME-6 | ISSUE-6 | JUNE-2017

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