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Vyas Prachi Nitin

UR3596

Provisions for Urban Forests in India - Ahmedabad City.

The paper aims at exploring what policy provisions at the Center, State or City level could help increase the tree canopy cover in Ahmedabad. After critically examining the existing hierarchy and relationship between the center, states, and the city, of cities across India and the world, I aim to identify potentials to empower the urban authorities in the governance framework to take decisions on urban forests and policies they can use within the framework of development plan to do so. Following which potential category of spaces have been shortlisted in Ahmedabad where tree plantation can be incorporated.


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Aim and Objectives of the Research

Status of forest and tree cover in India, Gujarat and Ahmedabad respectively.

Provisions for urban forests in policies, schemes at national level.

Key observations regarding the policies studied.

Provisions for tree planting in the GDCR. Similarly initiatives for tree plantation by AUDA was also studied.

Existing planning mechanism in Ahmedabad. (This has been done based on the information available and analyzed in the public domain).

Matrix showing, different kinds of approaches adopted by cities worldwide to incorporate urban forests in their cities and planning mechanisms.

Proposed organizational structure at the State level in India.

Proposed organizational structure at the City level in Ahmedabad.