Abstract

Environmental quality of a settlement is outcome of natural and built environment, which is crucial for sustainable development and maintaining ecological balance, and one of the most critical concerns faced by settlements in India. The degrading environmental quality of settlements is collective result of rapid development, increasing population, depleting vegetation and water resources, excess pollution and waste generation and results in ecological imbalance and climate change at large. The problem of degrading environmental quality is most crucial in hill towns of India which are ecologically most fragile and undergoing rapid urbanization.

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