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Indonesia's River Citarum

Environmental issues are crucial in regional planning but are often overlooked, primarily due to a focus on industrialization and infrastructure development. Key concerns include disaster vulnerability in site selection, pollution from industrial and agricultural activities, and inadequate waste management, leading to severe environmental degradation as seen in case studies like Indonesia's River Citarum and the Aral Sea. Effective regional planning must integrate environmental considerations to achieve sustainable development and ecological balance.

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Indonesia's River Citarum

Environmental issues are crucial in regional planning but are often overlooked, primarily due to a focus on industrialization and infrastructure development. Key concerns include disaster vulnerability in site selection, pollution from industrial and agricultural activities, and inadequate waste management, leading to severe environmental degradation as seen in case studies like Indonesia's River Citarum and the Aral Sea. Effective regional planning must integrate environmental considerations to achieve sustainable development and ecological balance.

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Environmental issues in regional planning:

Q) Environmental issues forms an integral part of regional planning yet are ignored.
Analyse.

Answer:
Of the 7 principle mentioned for regional planning, maintaining ecological equilibrium is
one of the 7 principles. It refers that regional planning should be carried out without
disturbing the ecological balance. It aims to cultivate habitability in all regions. However,
under technocentric form of development environment issues have not been addressed.

Environment issues are parts of regional planning in following ways but are ignored:

1. Regional Planning historically has been industrialisation led development of


backward regions. So has been limited to setting industries, provision of
infrastructure for industries, creating communication and employment
opportunities. So environment issues has been ignored. Environmental concerns
were incorporated in regional planning by Glikson.

2. Environment issues in site selection: Disaster vulnerability in terms of cloud burst,


floods, droughts of the area is important component in site selection while planning
for the region in terms of settlements, industries and other economic infrastructure.
But settlements and agriculture are planned in floodplain areas creating issues.

3. Environment issues with respect land- water pollution: For sustainable


development, it is important minimise pollution. Industrial pollution is not taken
consider while urban planning. Environment issues are ignored in agriculture like
water issues, land degradation.

Case study: Indonesia’s River Citarum is one of the most polluted river where
pollution have choked it with chemicals and rubbish. Lead levels are more than 1,000
times the US Environmental Protection Agency drinking water standard and levels of
other heavy metals such as aluminium, iron and manganese are above the international
average. This is due to lack of integration of environment concerns is regional planning.

4. Environmental issues of waste management has not been addressed in regional


planning creating issues like Pilling of garbage with potent issues like landfill burning,
pollution of land due to leachate and aggravate the issue of climate change.

Case study: According to European Space Agency satellite. Dumps, landfills and
waste sites in India, Pakistan and Bangladesh have accumulated clouds of Powerful
GHG in the region derailing the climate change goals.

5. Regional planning ignores environment issues like Ground water, management of


flood plain, land zonation into forest, deforestation.
Case study: Drying Aral Sea: Aral Sea was fed by Amu Darya and the Syr Darya.
Enormous irrigation network to irrigate sprawling fields of cotton and wheat in Kazakhstan
and Uzbekistan without taking into consideration environment issues has lead to
disappearance of eastern section of sea.

Integrated planning requires disaster management, hydrological studies, ACR, AER. Sponge
city of china

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