Construction

Biomass burning, used mainly for cooking, is a key contributor to Household Air Pollution (HAP). It poses health risks especially for women and children as they are directly exposed to …

neighborhoods) and public spaces (dumping grounds, construction sites, etc.). Thus, examining the barriers to … reported are as follows: waste picking (47.5%), construction labor (19.7%), loading/porter work (16.2%) …

This report is written by Suhas Chakma of Indigenous Peoples Law & Policy Program (IPLP), University of Arizona. Published in July 2024, the report examines the conflict between tiger conservation …

against ceiling imposed, resorts / hotels, road construction/ widening /up-gradation, linear projects in … Venkateswara National Park (Andhra Pradesh);25 construction of underground pipeline and pump house in core …

The National Sample Survey Office (NSSO) has conducted Household Consumption Expenditure surveys (HCES) regularly since its inception in 1950. Data on household consumption was collected annually from 1950–51 to 1973-74. …

1.8.1 The expenditure on purchase and construction of residential land and building, interest …

This report was published in June 2024 by the World Economic Forum based in Switzerland. The Global Gender Gap Report was first published in 2006; this is the 18th edition …

This research paper looks at the impact of urbanisation on lake systems in Bengaluru, with a focus on the vegetation growing in the lake and expansion of built-up areas in …

low-lying areas. Furthermore, ongoing unplanned construction activities throughout the year often resulted … susceptible to disposal of sewage water and construction debris (Prasad, 2019; Bharath and Umesh, 2017) … M., Jose, M., N¨olke, N., M¨ockel, T., 2017. Construction and use of a simple index of urbanization in …

The India Employment Report 2024 was published by the Institute for Human Development (IHD) in collaboration with the International Labour Organization (ILO) on March 26, 2024. It is the third …

Important employment-generating sectors in construction, 2000–19 (%) 66 X Table 3.10. Important … Survey of Industries databases 54 X Box 9 Construction of the employment structure index 70 X Box … increase in non-farm employment was absorbed by construction and services. After 2019, this slow transition … workers and 70 per cent of such workers in the construction sector at the all-India level did not receive … 2000–19, accompanied by significant growth in the construction and service sectors. This trend reversed with …

IQAir, a Switzerland-based company working on air quality technology, released this report on March 19, 2024. It gives an overview of population weighted air quality data for the year 2023 …

wood burning, agricultural activities, and construction. Natural sources include dust storms, wildfires … gigawatts of coal-fired capacity permitted or under construction in 2023.18,19 This recently accelerated permitting … be built after 2023, those currently under construction can be completed and operated until 2050. HIGHLIGHT: … Bricks play an essential role in Bangladesh’s construction sector due to a lack of naturally occurring … pollutant sources included motor vehicles, construction, and industrial activity.72 HIGHLIGHT: INDUSTRIAL …

The working paper highlights how inequality in India declined in the period after independence until the 1980s, after which it started rising again. The paper compares the wealth and income …

the two sources. Further, differences in the construction and use of price deflators may have non-trivial … workforce was employed in agriculture, 12.4% in construction, and only 11.6% in manufacturing, with the rest …

This paper was published in the open-access scientific journal Heliyon, on February 18, 2024. It was written by Khaiwal Ravindra from Post Graduate Institute of Medical Education and Research, Chandigarh; …

architectural practices involving high heat capacity construction, such as thatched rooftops and shaded exterior …

In their 2024 working paper "Sexist Textbooks," Lee Crawfurd, Christelle Saintis-Miller and Rory Todd, researchers with the Center for Global Development, Washignton D.C., investigate gender bias in textbooks from 34 …

Press. Lee, Jackie F.K. and Peter Collins, “Construction of gender: a comparison of Australian and Hong …