Contents
1 COVID-19: An Opportunity for Smart and Sustainable Cities
in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
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Meet Fatewar and Vaishali
2 Reassessment of Urban Sustainability and Food Security
in the Light of COVID-19 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
Basu Anindya and Kar Nabendu Sekhar
3 Disruptive Mobility in Pre- and Post-COVID Times:
App-Based Shared Mobility in Indian Cities—The Case
of Bengaluru . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
Nausheen Akhtar and Paulose N. Kuriakose
4 Finding the Long-Lost Path: Developing Environmental
Awareness Through the Pandemic . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 93
T. S. Shwetha and Avneet Kaur
5 The Dual Impact of Lockdown on Curbing COVID-19 Spread
and Rise of Air Quality Index in India . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
Swagatam Roy and Ahan Chatterjee
6 Aftermath of Industrial Pollution, Post COVID-19 Quarantine
on Environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
Raj Shekhar Sharma, Divyansh Panthari, Shikha Semwal,
and Tripti Uniyal
7 COVID-19: Disaster or an Opportunity for Environmental
Sustainability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
Abhishek Chauhan
8 COVID-19 and Its Impact on Carbon Dioxide Emissions . . . . . . . . . . 195
Ankit Dasgotra, Vishal Kumar Singh, Suvendu Manna,
Gurpreet Singh, S. M. Tauseef, and Jitendra K. Pandey
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