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Concern among state legislators about rural development and rural land use is not new. In many states, agriculture remains an important feature of the economic, cultural, and political landscape. As rural incomes, populations, and prosperity have declined, states have adopted a variety of policies in response. Rural land and development policies in most states, however, are often more symbolic than influential, poorly integrated, and grossly misguided (Audirac, 1997). For rural areas, very few states mandate or facilitate rural comprehensive planning, often due to opposition from rural legislators. Farmlands (cropland and grazing land) constitute the largest share of land use by acreage in the country and have an even higher share in the rural areas. Although a relatively smaller and decreasing part of the overall economy, farmland uses employ 21 percent of the nation’s workforce (including processing, wholesale and retail trade of farming goods) and about 7 percent of nation’s workfor...

Well " SUSTAINABLE"- WORD IS NEWLY ADDED WORD IN THE DICTIONARY OF DEVELOPERS RECENTLY. I must introduce the meaning of word sustainable means "  able to be maintained at a certain rate or level."    Nowadays,  fascinating buildings ,beautiful structures are winning the peoples heart; but the real approaches of the factors beside it are missing. awareness among people is actually missing ; using of resources till the usage of value added product whole chain is flowing immensely without any thought process.  IN ALL THE SECTORS, THE LEVEL OF POLLUTION IS INCREASING" degradation of land, water and other natural features is happening. ways of doing sustainable development are adopting now a days by the cities ,because we reach the level of extinct and awareness is needed for the future generation .As Prime Minister Narendra Modi has stated, “These goals reflect our evolving understanding of the social, economic and environmental linkages that define our lives.” Ind...

As  water scarcity  problems grow in many Indian cities, civil society groups have been advocating rooftop  rainwater harvesting  for achieving water security. They use it as a way to stop public investments on large infrastructure projects that are necessary for dealing with urban water scarcity. Their perspectives about managing urban floods are even poorer. The implications of extreme hydrologic variability for the effectiveness of water management choices we make for cities that experience floods and  droughts  have hardly been appreciated by them. This chapter analyzes how the antagonistic view of some activists toward large water infrastructure projects, their obsession with “rainwater harvesting” as an approach for ensuring water security, and their increasing influence on the civil society at large weaken the institutional capability to evolve long-term strategies to deal with floods and droughts, using the case of Chennai city floods. The chapter a...