Full Description
This book examines urbanization and migration processes in South Asia. By analyzing the socio-economic impacts and infrastructural, environmental and institutional aspects of different conurbations, it highlights conflicts over agricultural land as well as the effects on health, education, poverty and the welfare of children, women and old people. The authors also explore issues of mobility; connectivity and accessibility of public services, and discuss the effective use of new urban-management tools, such as the concept of smart cities and urban spatial monitoring.
Contents
Part I: Drivers of Urbanization.- Introduction (Sumana Bandyopadhyay, Chitta Pathak, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho).- Sikkim - Once a Captivating au naturel Himalayan Kingdom in the Light of Its Growing Urban Scape (Sanghamitra Sarkar).- Urbanization Process in Nepal (Sunil Babu Shrestha).- Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Affecting Migration Behavior in Turbat, Baluchistan, Pakistan (Muhammad Ali Sheikh).- Part II: Pressures on the Environment.- Sustainability and Climate Change: The Example of Bhutan (Elżbieta Jabłońska).- Urbanization in Sri Lanka (Bilesha Weeraratne).- Disaster Risk Mitigation Strategies in the South-Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh (Tuhin Roy, Mahbuba Nasreen, Abdullah Abusayed Khan, Rezaul Karim).- Disaster Governance in South Asia: Special Reference to Nepal (Tej Kumar Karki, Nimesh Salike).- Part III: Restructuring Adapted Spaces.- Residential Mobility and Well-Being of the Aged in Old Age Homes of Kolkata (AmbikaRoy Bardhan, Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan).- Evaluation of Urban Basic Services and Role of Urban Governance: A Case Study of Selected Wards of Chandernagore Municipal Corporation (Arindam Dasgupta).- Micro-Level Analysis of Road Connectivity and Its Spatial Variation in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Area. (Juber Alam, Mafizul Haque).- Nexus Between Urbanization, Land Use Conflicts and Agricultural Land Conversion: The Case of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan (Habib Magis, Maulana Bux Perrzado).- Part IV: Effects on Society.- Migration and Entry to Urban Street Food Market: A Study of Selected Street Food Vendors in Delhi (Aditi Kundu, Sayak Dutta).- HIV/AIDS Vulnerability Among Street Children in Urban Bangladesh: A Reality of Old Dhaka (Saidur Rashid Sumon, Abdullah Abusayed Khan).- Status of Urban Poor in Kolkata: A Case Study of Squatter Settlements Along Beliaghata Canal (Anindata Ghosh).- Education and Bankura District, West Bengal (Mrinal Mandal, Debasis Ghosh).- Part V: Responses from Governance.- Exploring Dimensions and Elements for Smart City Development in India (Dillip Kumar Das, Sanjaykumar G. Sonar).- Citizens' Preferences for Urban Parks of Kolkata: A Benefit-Cost Approach (Laxmi Narayan Saha, Sumana Bandyopadhyay).- Estimation of Surface Thermal Influx from Satellite Images in the Newly Developed Built-up Areas of South 24 Paragans District, West Bengal (Anwesha Haldar, Pradip Patra, Mafizul Haque).-
