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Forum for Nature, People and Sustainability. We ask the difficult questions about cities and seek answers.
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🚦 Overcrowded tourist hotspots make efforts to reduce footfalls. Can new tactics ease the pressure? . #Overtourism #TourismManagement.
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Overtourism in some of the world's most popular destinations such as Barcelona, Mallorca, Venice, and Bali has led to a series of protests this month and local administrations were pushed to impose...
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🏞️ Community-based tourism offers hope and sustainability in the #Northeast. Locals lead the way. #CommunityTourism .
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Away from the colour and clamour of mega festivals, in a few towns and villages of Sikkim, Nagaland and Meghalaya, community-based tourism is gaining ground. Local communities provide travel experi...
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🌍 Overtourism has led to touristified destinations, unsustainable ecology & angry locals. How do we undo the damage? . #Overtourism #SustainableTravel .
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What was once pleasurable travel has turned into a massive global industry of tourism. While its place in the economy of a nation or city is well acknowledged, there are increasing instances, from...
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#Overtourism is a complex phenomenon requiring a nuanced analysis; if left unchecked and unregulated, it can exacerbate the problems of tourism. Residents of international cities are rising up, we may see it in India too.
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What was once pleasurable travel has turned into a massive global industry of tourism. While its place in the economy of a nation or city is well acknowledged, there are increasing instances, from...
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#Tourism is necessary for local economies but the time has come to assess its relative value considering the damage it poses to the local way of life and the environment.
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What was once pleasurable travel has turned into a massive global industry of tourism. While its place in the economy of a nation or city is well acknowledged, there are increasing instances, from...
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The use of terms like ‘natural’, ‘eco-friendly’ or ‘green’ creates a facade of environmentally responsible tourist offerings. #Tourism, a short-term activity for visitors or consumers, allows ample space for the industry to indulge in #greenwashing.
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Ecotourism, as a path to make tourism sustainable for nature and people, is still a fraction of India’s gigantic tourism industry, mostly driven by committed individuals or small groups. While...
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Given the positive sentiment around sustainability in general, #ecotourism has been adopted as a label by tour companies, hotels, leisure venues and others to exaggerate or falsely claim the environmental benefits of their products and practices.
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Ecotourism, as a path to make tourism sustainable for nature and people, is still a fraction of India’s gigantic tourism industry, mostly driven by committed individuals or small groups. While...
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While governments must impose restrictions and define boundaries, the visitors and the visited need education in responsibility and regulations, for tourism to be ethical and sustainable.
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What was once pleasurable travel has turned into a massive global industry of tourism. While its place in the economy of a nation or city is well acknowledged, there are increasing instances, from...
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Performance devices such as satire, anxiety & grief are paving the way to talk about climate change in ways starkly different from mainstream news by centering people’s experiences & empowering them to break the barriers of climate science and English.
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Practitioners of creative forms such as theatre, indie films, installations, poetry, stand-up comedy, and card or board games are engaging with the complex and layered information and reports about...
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RT @shalineekumari_: The people most impacted by climate change often don’t hear about it in the languages they speak. In this interview w….
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The local impacts, descriptions, and knowledge of climate change rarely make it to the national or global climate discussions. Question of Cities talks to multi-lingual journalists to understand how...
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#Climatecommunication excludes the very people it affects the most. For it to make a difference, it must be rooted in people’s realities, languages, and aspirations, writes @ankitab1492.
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The languages, forms and methods used to communicate climate change often fail to connect policy and official reports with people’s lived experiences. Climate communication excludes the very people...
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RT @JamwalNidhi: “We are stuck thinking we journalists will take climate information to the grassroots but we need to listen, and document….
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RT @ankitab1492: How do we make climate communication resonate with the very people it affects the most? In my essay for @CitiesQuestion,….
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The languages, forms and methods used to communicate climate change often fail to connect policy and official reports with people’s lived experiences. Climate communication excludes the very people...
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#NowHiring.We are India’s only online journal on cities, ecology and social equity. We are looking for a Multimedia journalist-social media whiz to join our kickass team. Write us on contact@questionofcities.org or smruti@questionofcities.org with your resume and work samples.
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Team QoC interviews tree warriors Florence Pandhi, Aditya N Prakash and Vijay Nishanth:.
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Call them tree warriors or green crusaders. They are fighting the tough battle in cities across India – Dehradun, Delhi, Bengaluru – to preserve and protect trees both for their intrinsic value and...
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How much built-up area has increased in India's cities? @shobhasurin and Nikeita Saraf distill the data: .
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In cities across India, people speak of how much more construction they see in familiar areas. But how much exactly has been built? What does the data tell us? There’s no clarity, especially for...
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Communities are central to climate plans and action, writes Jenny Mariadhas:.
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From advocacy work and campaigns against unsustainable development projects, especially in areas with marginalised populations, mapping the areas for climate vulnerability was a seamless extension...
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Women’s movements reflect eco concerns but environmental movements need to reflect gender more, women’s activists tell @jashbaat:.
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As women, across barriers of caste and class and other social indices, assert themselves, they also touch upon environmental issues that are deeply tied to their lives, living conditions, work and...
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@ManshiAsher talks about why it is important to break barriers, build allyship, and organise creative collective action: .
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India’s economic growth model, which is based on passing costs to the poor and marginalised while the benefits are for another class of people, makes environmental justice urgent. Environmental...
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Sociologist and Geddes' biographer Indra Munshi reflects on his unique ideas on restoring nature in cities: .
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Patrick Geddes, the Scottish biologist, conservationist, sociologist and town planner who spent long years working in India, believed it was important that the natural assets of a town, and everyon...
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