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S E A C O K. Ravi Kumar Reddy, ITPI, Telangana Chapter
5th June 2018
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† Research material collected is from the respective works and ownerships
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The Rationale?
Consequent Events by United Nations, and No Lineage Across
22nd May, International Day for Biodiversity 5th June, World Environment Day

Common Charter:
United Nations Environment Program and
Sustainable Development Goals
The UN Charter, UNEP
The Relative Collaboration for Planners on Environment?

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Greater Hyderabad Score
Biodiversity Score: 36/92 (COP11, 2012)
1. Proportion of Natural areas in city.
2. Ecological networks to counter habitat fragmentation.
3. Native bird species biodiversity in built-up areas.
4. Change in number of native vascular plant species.
5. Change in number of native bird species.
6. Change in number of native butterfly species.
7. Change in number of native reptile species.
8. Change in number of native fresh-water species.
9. Extent of protected natural areas.
10. Proportion of invasive alien spaces.
11. Regulation of quantity of water.
12. Climate regulation carbon storage and cooling effect of vegetation.
13. Recreational and educational services through area of parks.
14. Recreational and educational services through educational visits of children.
15. Budget allocations for biodiversity.
16. Number of biodiversity projects implemented in the city per year.
17. Policy, rules and regulations.
18. Institutional capacity: Essential biodiversity-related functions.
19. Institutional capacity: Inter-agency cooperation.
20. Public consultation process.
21. Institutional partnership.
22. Inclusion of biodiversity awareness in the school children.
23. Number of outreach or public awareness events.
Master Plan Research
Contradictory Analysis for the Promotion of Biodiversity

Influence on biodiversity is directly proportional to calibrated rationale between

‘environmental stability’ and ‘land availability for development’.
Urban Habitat
Greater Hyderabad Environmental Characteristics
Levels of Urban Spheres
Technosphere is the Human Manipulated Space

Ecosphere
10 KM Energy, Industrial, Domestic and
High Altitude Bacteria Mobility Discharge of Pollutants.
Bacteria
Birds
Technosphere
Air Humans & Others

Soil Plants
Subterranean Creatures
Microbes
0.25 KM
Imbalance of Soil Nutrients & Erosion
Aquifers -
and Discharge of Chemical Effluents.
Deep Aquatic
Long-term Devastation
Subsurface Ecosystem is More Vulnerable than the Surface

1: Negotiating medium of two

different ecosystems of aquatic and
terrestrial is the substrate.
2: Direct impact of human activity
and the discharge of chemical
effluents.
3: Precipitation of settled
atmospheric pollutants
to subsoil ecosystem.
4: Non-biodegradables are
hiding (and non-recoverable)
somewhere under the surface.
5: The immediate abiotic substrate is
needing attention for protection.
Subsurface Biochemicals
Predictive Nature of Watershed System and Ground Water

1: Quantifying how biological behavior, abiotic-biotic

interactions, and molecular transformations
control the mobility of contaminants,
nutrients, and biogeochemical elements.
2: Quantify and predict how hydrology
drives fine-scale biogeochemical
processes in subsurface systems.
3: Translate biogeochemical behavior across
relevant molecular to watershed scales to
accurately and tractably predict flows
of water, nutrients, and contaminants.
4: Identify, quantify, and predict
watershed responses to natural and
anthropogenic perturbations and shift states.
Subsurface Ecology
Aqueous Geochemistry, Reactive Transport, and Tracers

Reactive transport involves physical and chemical

processes that occur as fluids flow
through geologic formations,
resulting in complex
feedbacks between
flow and chemical
reactions.

Wherever there is
trace of aquatic
systems there is
possibility of
life. These systems have been
surviving since the ages of
Cretaceous and even Jurassic.
Groundwater Crustaceans
Only Eight Species were Known in India till the End of 20th Century
Larger Ecological Destruction
Today Most of the Crustaceans are Endangered Species

Urban;
1: Dense built-up and paving treatment destroying their sustenance cycle.
2: Polluted waterbodies percolate the effluents to crustacean habitat.
3: Uncontrolled exploitation of ground water not only emptying aquifers but also
destroying large clusters of crustacean population.
Regional;
1: Industrial urban fringe is merciless about the subsurface life forms.
2: Modern practices of agriculture has not only depleted soil nutrients but also
supporting subsurface ecology.
3: Large scale emptying of sand-beds in flowing waters is causing the natural cleansing
process destroyed due to the removal of life that survives on the biological impurities.
General;
1: The climate change also discussed to be having an influence due to unstable aquatic
ecology, and this planet is the composition of more than two-thirds of water.
2: The life forms are evolutionary, and rebuilding is almost negligible for alternatives.
Needing Further Research
Monitoring and Management through Relative Drivers

Microhabitat Features (Life Forms, Quantities etc.)

Hydro Period (Seasonal, Permanent etc.)
Specific Water Physico-Chemistry (Geo-Biological)

Broad Scale
Ecosystem Matched

Social
Severely Scale on
Exploited Trade-off of
Over Time Benefits
Matched Potential
Fine Scale
Social

Scale in Disruption
Mutual of Social
Respect System
Fine Scale Broad Scale
Ecological Ecological

Nature of Species and Cycle of Life

Biocenosis Structure
Degree of Dependency on Ground Water
Thank You