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Clean Transport in India
As extreme weather events – the heat wave in Delhi in May 2022 and the unusually heavy rains in September 2022 – become more frequent, fulfilling the predictions of climate change experts, reducing the emissions of greenhouse gases that drive the climate change becomes increasingly urgent. Next to coal-fired power stations and the industrial sector, it is transport that accounts for a major share in these emissions, which makes Clean Transport in India a particularly timely publication. The book not only presents all the relevant statistics but, more important, explains the implications of those numbers and the interconnections between different facets of transport: for example, the grea...
Urban Mobility Research in India
This book presents selected papers from 13th Research Symposium of 15th Urban Mobility India Conference & Expo 2022. It focuses on sustainable Atmanirbhar urban mobility with an interdisciplinary approach spanning the fields of economics, planning, management, and engineering. It covers a wide variety of topics like smart city and smart mobility, sustainable transportation planning and policy, public transport and non-motorized transport (NMT), road safety for vulnerable road users (VRUs), and urban transport infrastructure design for all, sustainable mobility and land use (LU), sustainable urban freight, electric urban mobility, and urban transport governance. This book is of interest to the graduates, postgraduates, and Ph.D. students to advance their research in the field of transportation systems engineering. This book is also helpful to urban and transport planners and managers, traffic analysts, consultants, transportation advisors, and experts in planning, developing, operating, managing, and executing the transportation projects.
Green Homes and Workplaces
If it’s too hot, you switch on a fan. If it’s cold, you turn on a room heater. We do this unthinkingly, and it never occurs to us that had the building itself been designed differently, neither may have been necessary. Amory Lovins’s home high up in the mountains in Colorado uses no grid-supplied electricity and yet is warm enough to grow bananas and comfortable 24/7 all the year round. It all comes to wise building design. Living in a hot and dry climate? You need thick walls and shaded windows. Living along a coast? The warm and moist climate means you need ample ventilation and thin walls. These are obvious solutions but architects have more tricks up their sleeves. After having hel...
From Lattus to Lasers
The history of electricity in India traces an inverted arc – like a smiley – which starts in the colonial period with private electricity capacity leading, regresses to a mode of near complete public sector monopoly by the 1980s and then traces the upward incline to a near 50% share for private electricity suppliers – not a full smiley but a slightly lop-sided one. The half-smile – like Mona Lisa’s – masks long periods of misallocation of public capital, unabashed populism, and careless adherence to ‘path dependencies’ which plagues bureaucracies the world over. This book asks a few inconvenient questions and provides some out-of-the-box solutions with the intention of enlarg...
Sun Through the Roof
Sun Through the Roof introduces its readers to grid-connected rooftop solar systems for the residential sector. Against the backdrop of rising tariffs coupled with fluctuating voltage and continuing shortage of electricity – and the noise and fumes from diesel-powered generators to make up for such poor-quality supply – the book hopes to convince its readers of the many benefits of generating electricity through rooftop solar systems while, at the same time, making readers aware of some of the drawbacks of those systems. In keeping with the objectives of the ‘Concerned Citizen’ series, Sun Through the Roof seeks to answer many of the frequently asked questions about rooftop solar sys...
Dilemmas in Dealing with Climate Change in India
Be it an extremely hot day or a day of heavy rains, people jokingly attribute the weather to climate change—and that is the sole extent of public discourse on the topic. Seldom does anyone pause to think of such extreme-weather days becoming threateningly frequent and whether that threat is avoidable. Climate change has complex global, national, and regional implications in its impacts and in the policies to respond to those impacts. For India, the complexities inherent in the policies are magnified because of the country’s size, population, and diversity, both economic and cultural. Opinions vary among experts and policymakers on how India should address the problem of climate change, b...
Energy Efficiency Matters
Would you like to reduce your monthly electricity bill? Help reduce power outages in your neighbourhood? Improve air quality in your city? And all while making a measurable impact in slowing global warming and climate change? If you answered ‘Yes’ to any of these questions, this book is for you. Energy Efficiency Matters gives concerned citizens like you an overview of how your electricity bills are calculated as well as practical guidelines and clear directions for practising energy efficiency at home. The easily-implementable practices for mindful and responsible electricity consumption in daily life can significantly reduce your household’s energy costs as well as the impact of harm...
Coal: phase down or phase out
Coal has been in the news in the last few months for various reasons, the main ones being the shortfall in its supply and its rising prices. Yet, the more pressing need today is switch to cleaner alternatives to save the planet from the adverse effects of climate change, which is exacerbated by carbon dioxide emitted from burning coal. Coal: phase down or phase out brings together salient facts and figures about coal in India and the world to give the reader an overview of the trends in reserves, production, prices, and utilization of coal. More than that, the book highlights the major problems – particularly those related to the environment – that confront the coal sector and not only t...
Nutraceuticals in Human Health
Have you noticed how quickly advertisements of immunity boosters have mushroomed recently? Turmeric latte, tulsi, amla, ginger, . . . the list goes on. Whether such supplements really work or whether the effect is purely psychological is a different matter—but Nutraceuticals in Human Health goes a long way in helping you to make sense of what nutraceuticals are, to examine the oft exaggerated claims of their benefits, and to separate marketing gimmicks from truth. Whereas marked changes in the lifestyles of Indians, particularly those living in cities, have greatly increased the incidence of such lifestyle-related disorders as diabetes and hypertension and in diseases of the heart, the cov...
AKASHVANI
"Akashvani" (English ) is a programme journal of ALL INDIA RADIO ,it was formerly known as The Indian Listener.It used to serve the listener as a bradshaw of broadcasting ,and give listener the useful information in an interesting manner about programmes, who writes them,take part in them and produce them along with photographs of performing artists.It also contains the information of major changes in the policy and service of the organisation. The Indian Listener (fortnightly programme journal of AIR in English) published by The Indian State Broadcasting Service,Bombay ,started on 22 december, 1935 and was the successor to the Indian Radio Times in english, which was published beginning in ...
