[Reader-list] Toxics Link Public Lecture Series: Screening of The Final Tide at IIC

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Toxics Link’s Environment & Health Public Lecture Series

The Final Tide

Impact of Climate Change on Urbanscape: Sustainability Issue

Climate change has long-since ceased to be a scientific curiosity, and 
is no longer just one of many environmental and regulatory concerns. As 
the United Nations Secretary General has said, it is the major, 
overriding environmental issue of our time, and the single greatest 
challenge facing environmental regulators. It is a growing crisis with 
economic, health and safety, food production, security, and other 
dimensions that include designing sustainable city forms.

Coastal zones are particularly vulnerable to climate variability and 
change. Key concerns include sea level rise, land loss, changes in 
maritime storms and flooding, responses to sea level rise and 
implications for water resources. Rising sea levels inundate wetlands 
and other low-lying lands, erode beaches, intensify flooding, and 
increase the salinity of rivers, bays, and groundwater tables. The 
impacts of climate change in small islands like the Union Territory of 
Lakshadweep in the Arabian Sea manifests itself in myriad forms.

Today’s crop of city planners and designers strive to achieve 
sustainable urban development. In other words they try to achieve a 
balance between the development of the urban areas and protection of 
the environment with an eye to equity in employment, shelter, 
infrastructure, transportation and various basic amenities

Toxics Link invites you for a screening of the film on 11 February at 
India International Centre.

Screening: The Final Tide; duration 10 minutes, By Vikram Mishra

Panelist:

    * Dr A.K. Gosain, Head Of Department, Civil Engineering, IIT Delhi
     * Dr K.T. Ravindran, Head of Department, Department of Urban 
Design, School of Planning and Architecture, Delhi
    * Mr Vikrm Mishra, Environmental Filmmaker

Date: 20th Nov 2009, Friday
Time: 6:30 p.m.
Venue: Conference Room 1, India International Centre, Lodhi Road, New 
Delhi (In collaboration with India International Centre)

For further information, please contact:
Suparna Dutta: suparna at toxicslink.org
Nitin Jain: nitin at toxicslink.org
E: info at toxicslink.org