Greater Bangalore: Emerging Urban Heat Island

Ramachandra, TV and Kumar, Uttam (2010) Greater Bangalore: Emerging Urban Heat Island. In: Greater Bangalore: Emerging Urban Heat, 14 (1).

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Abstract

Bangalore is experiencing unprecedented urbanisation and sprawl in recent times due to concentrated developmental activities with impetus on industrialisation for the economic development of the region. This concentrated growth has resulted in the increase in population and consequent pressure on infrastructure, natural resources and ultimately giving rise to a plethora of serious challenges such as climate change, enhanced green-house gases emissions, lack of appropriate infrastructure, traffic congestion, and lack of basic amenities (electricity, water, and sanitation) in many localities, etc. This study shows that there has been a growth of 632% in urban areas of Greater Bangalore across 37 years (1973 to 2009). Urban heat island phenomenon is evident from large number of localities with higher local temperatures. The study unravels the pattern of growth in Greater Bangalore and its implication on local climate (an increase of ~2 to 2.5 ºC during the last decade) and also on the natural resources (76% decline in vegetation cover and 79% decline in water bodies), necessitating appropriate strategies for the sustainable management.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Publication:	Greater Bangalore: Emerging Urban Heat
Department/Centre:	Division of Biological Sciences > Centre for Ecological Sciences Division of Mechanical Sciences > Centre for Sustainable Technologies (formerly ASTRA)
Date Deposited:	10 Oct 2011 09:28
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2011 09:28
URI:	http://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/41251

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