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Digital Elevation Model (DEM) & Ward-wise Population (Source: Author, generated from CARTOSAT Satellite Data Set; Ward boundary with population data from Census of India 2011, Dehradun Nagar Nigam)
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Unprecedented urbanization in India has triggered many ill effects on the built environment. Air pollution is one of the critical factors that have arisen owing to unregulated urban development. Poor air quality adversely affects health and life expectancy of citizens, natural flora-fauna and may lead to extreme climatic events such as erratic prec...
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... terrain of the city is largely plain which is gradually adulating from South to North. Digital Elevation Model (DEM) as represented in Figure-1 shows the city to be more skewed in North and less as one moves towards the South. North being mountainous tract while the lowland south being more planar making it more suitable for new settlements and social activities. ...
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Objectives
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