Peri-Urbanization and Environmental Issues

Abstract

Environmental issues and problems have featured prominently in processes of peri-urbanization and in the nature of PUIs almost everywhere. The Aligarh city’s PUI is not an independent or isolated zone, but—as defined—dynamic interfaces between urban and rural relations. PUI development and the resultant forces and pressures acting in the PUI are therefore not only local but also regional and even national, in terms of human mobility, commodity and financial flows and their valuation, and claims on environmental resources. The stability of the PUI landscape is relatively poor as compared to urban or rural landscapes which have relatively better stability. The development of city and gradual expansions outward in the PUI, where land fee is lower and land use ways are more flexible, makes PUI environmentally vulnerable.