TY - BOOK AU - Sharma, Dipty AU - Bhagwat, Prabhakar B. (Guide) TI - Impact of special economic zone on natural resources of a region case of Navi Mumbai SEZ (Also available on CD) U1 - LA TH-0116 PY - 2008/// N1 - Contents 1.0 Abstract 5 2.0 Introduction 6 2.1 Aim 6 2.2 Objectives 6 2.3 Methodology 6 3.0 Special Economic Zone (SEZ) (ref sheet no.1) 8 3.1 Need for a SEZ 8 3.2 Formats for SEZs in India 8 3.3 Components of a SEZ 9 3.4 SEZ and Natural Resources 10 4.0 Study Region: Navi Mumbai 11 4.1 Delineation of the region 11 4.2 Climate 13 4.3 Natural Resources of Navi Mumbai region 13 4.4 Land use 14 4.5 Sub‐regions within Navi Mumbai region 15 4.6 Navi Mumbai SEZ (NMSEZ) 15 4.7 Strategic location of NMSEZ site 16 5.0 Karanja sub‐region 18 6.0 History of the sub‐region 19 6.1 Portuguese (1530‐1740) 19 6.2 Marathas (1737‐1774) 19 6.3 British (1774‐1947) 20 6.4 Independent India: PRE CIDCO (1947‐1979) 20 6.5 Navi Mumbai (1979‐present) 21 6.6 Inferences 21 7.0 Natural resources of the sub‐region 22 7.1 Geology (ref Sheet no. 5) 22 7.2 Soils (ref Sheet no.4) 25 7.3 Topography (ref Sheet no.5) 30 7.4 Hydrology 31 7.5 Vegetation (ref Sheet no.5) 33 7.6 Composite Resource Zoning (ref sheet no. 6) 36 8.0 CIDCO Proposal for Navi Mumbai SEZ (NMSEZ) (ref sheet no.2) 38 8.1 Kalamboli 38 8.2 Ulwe 38 8.3 Dronagiri 39 8.4 Inferences 40 9.0 Literature Study : Shenzhen SEZ, China (ref sheet no.3) 42 9.1 Introduction 42 9.2 Development of Shenzhen 43 9.3 Impacts of Shenzhen SEZ on NATURAL RESOURCES 43 9.4 Buji watershed 44 9.5 Conclusion 47 10.0 Resources of the proposed CIDCO SEZ location 48 10.1 Natural Resources 48 10.2 Secondary Resources 49 10.3 Critical resources of the location 50 10.4 Inferences 50 11.0 Impacts of Proposed CIDCO SEZ Development (ref Sheet no. 6) 51 11.1 Impacts at regional level 51 11.2 Impacts at local level 52 12.0 Natural Resource Development based proposal for NMSEZ (ref sheet no.8) 55 12.1 Planning methodology 55 13.0 Comparative analysis 61 14.0 Conclusion 64 Bibliography 65 ER -