Volume 7 | Issue 4 |

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This research paper explores the evolving landscape of responsible building envelopes and their crucial role in sustainable construction. While traditional building envelope design has primarily focused on optimizing energy efficiency, this paper argues that it is essential to transition beyond a narrow focus on energy consumption. Addressing broader sustainability challenges, including resource utilization, environmental impacts, and occupant well-being, necessitates embracing responsible building envelopes. Responsible building envelopes encompass considerations that extend beyond energy efficiency, such as material choices, life cycle analysis, and the integration of renewable energy sources. Drawing insights from the literature on energy transitions and sustainability principles, this paper aims to provide a comprehensive perspective on responsible building envelopes and their significance in the transition toward sustainable construction practices.

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Building Envelopes, Sustainability, Energy Efficiency, Responsible Design, Material Choices, Renewable Energy, Transition.

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The construction industry is an intricate web of operations, where the convergence of architectural design, spatial planning, and the logistics of construction projects are vital. In this paper, we examine the often underestimated yet essential element within construction sites - food. We investigate the interplay of food, space, and architecture and analyze their profound implications on the health and safety of construction workers. Moreover, we explore how this nexus significantly influences project costs, underlining the potential cost savings that stem from improved health and safety measures. The research ultimately underscores the critical importance of recognizing the intricate relationship between food, spatial design, architecture, and the broader construction context.

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Construction, Health and Safety, Architecture, Food, Cost Implications, Spatial Design, Workers.

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Air pollution is the result of multiple human activities and natural calamities. Over the years, a number of natural activities such as volcanoes, forest fires, lightning possibly release various pollutants in the environment but the atmosphere has not been so much affected as is now being done by anthropogenic activities. Air pollution is determined by the introduction of harmful substances including particulate matter (PM10, PM2.5), Gases (e.g. carbon monoxide (CO), dioxides of Nitrogen (NOx), ground level ozone (O3), sulfur dioxide (SO2) , organic compounds (e.g. polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon [PAH]), and metals in higher concentration pass through the environment. Air pollution is the main cause for the Cardio-vascular dysfunctions, respiratory and neurological disorders among human, while it impacts wildlife and plant too. More, it is also responsible for climate change as it causes global warming, ozone layer depletion and acid rain etc. This paper discusses about the air pollution and its impact on environment and human health.

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pollutants; environment; acid rain; global warming; neurological disorder

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Currently, India has the second-largest senior population in the world, and it is expected that this population will continue to grow by the year 2050. However, India lacks the necessary knowledge and resources to maintain the health and wellbeing of the elderly population, so it is necessary to study the issues that senior citizens face on a daily basis. The present study aims to find out the adjustment problems of senior citizens. Sample consisted of 80 aged subjects. Out of them 40 male and 40 female participants. Age ranges of the aged sample from 60-65 years. Shamshad -Jasbir Old age Adjustment Inventory was administered to collect the data. Result revealed that there is significant difference in overall adjustment of aged male and female respondents. Male have better adjustment than females. Also, there is significant difference in health, home, social, marital, emotional, and financial adjustment of the respondents.

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Adjustment, Senior citizens

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A sixth of India's population, but not its land, is made up of them. They control, at most, a meager fraction of a sixth of Indians' territory. In fact, most governments in this nation are unable to give even the most rudimentary information about the lands that dalits hold or have received as distributions. Nobody disputes the fact that they are largely landless and that, when they do own land, it is marginal and sometimes of poor quality. Second, there is a distinct caste geography in Indian irrigation. Upper castes cultivate near the tail waters, followed by intermediate castes in the center, and dalits in the middle.

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Population, Agricultural laborers, marginal caste, demographics

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United Nation Organization was established on 24 October 1945 in San Francisco conference1 and since than an important part of world politics. Its primary concern was to remove war and maintain peace and security. Since its inceptions there were five permanent members enjoying veto power and this veto power where as India is advocating structural reform of UN, to make it more democratic and more representative of all the regions. In many respect India deserves permanent seat in the in the restructured U.N security council. Any reforms to this effect need amendment of the Charter as per Article 108 of the Charter. So realizing this Ban Ki-moon, the former Secretary General of UNO remarked that "The U.N Security Council reform, being debated since two decades is too long overdue and the necessary expansion must be made considering how much the world has changed."

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Reforms, Veto Power, Big power, P-5, Permanent seat, U.N. Security Council, Restructured, Democratization, Proper Representation

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The Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment Guarantee Act (MGNREGA) is regarded as a "Silver Bullet" for eliminating rural unemployment and stimulating the demand for labor-force in Indian villages. It is a flagship program of the GOI that aims to achieve inclusive growth while directly affecting the lives of rural impoverished people. The program aims to strengthen the livelihood security of families living in rural areas and to offer at least 100 days of guaranteed paid employment to each family whose adult members are willing to perform manual labour. In August 2005, the GOI presented the Act. This significant piece of law reinforces India's status as a welfare state. There is now no alternative to this scheme in India, which has improved the standard of living of the rural dwellers in such a remarkable way. With this backdrop in mind, the study aims to investigate how this program has been able to lessen the unemployment issue in the Pranganj Gram Panchayat of the South 24 Parganas district and how it instilled hope by providing livelihood security to villagers during the epidemic.

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GOI, MGNREGA, Flagship scheme, Employment, Unskilled labour

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The Scheduled Tribes have been specified, as per Article 342 of the Constitution, in all States and Union Territories except Chandigarh, Delhi, Haryana, Pondicherry and Punjab. About 80 per cent of tribal population are to be found along the Central belt, starting from Gujarat - Maharashtra, running through Rajasthan, Madhya Pradesh, Chhattisgarh, Orissa, Jharkhand and West Bengal. The Constitution of India contains exhaustive provisions for protecting and promoting the interests of the scheduled tribes. These mandatory safeguards are relevant in the context of implementation of Tribal Sub-Plan and the Provisions of Panchayats (Extension to Scheduled Areas) Act 1996 (PESA) provisions for streamlining the administrative apparatus, providing legal support and implementing developmental programmes. India is one of the emerging economies. A large number of development projects have been launched in India for the past six decades. It has gained momentum since the independence. Dam projects, Industrial projects, Mining Projects, Thermal Power Projects, and Urban Infrastructure Projects are some of the prime examples. India's development policies and strategies have often focused upon indispensability of irrigation as important input for agriculture.

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Displacement, Schedule Tribes, Issues and Challenges, Legal Solution

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The Kole wetland, one of the largest, highly productive and one of the rice granaries of Kerala, has been declared in Ramsar convention for protection. Ponnani Kole, the study area, is situated in south-west of Malappuram and north-west of Thrissur districts, is the northern most extension of the Vembanad Kole Ramsar site. However, to the best of our knowledge, no solemn attempts were made to study the ecological impacts of these Kole wetlands especially emphasising biodiversity, physico chemical characters and human dependence. The present study is based on field survey and laboratory analysis of selected species. The study reveals the significant variation in stress physiology among plants grown in the area of high ecosystem diversity. It is also noticed, a massive destruction of the vegetation in the Koleland are very high due to natural and anthropogenic activities. Soil erosion also very high in Koleland and this leads to declination of vegetation as well. Study elucidated the physiological changes and related tolerance mechanism that occur in three plants according to the ecological variations during different seasons.

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Ecophysiology, Macrophytes, Kolelands, Antioxidant, Metabolites

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Princely State, Contribution, Culture, Preserving, Queen Mother

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