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.
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 (Elbieta Jaboska).- 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).-
Sumana Bandyopadhyay is a professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Calcutta, India and specializes in regional planning and urban environmental planning. She published books and scientific peer-review articles as well as many interdisciplinarily applied work on environmental, societal and development issues. Chitta Ranjan Pathak is an Indian city and regional planner as well as research consultant. His achievements include the environment management plan for Digha Coastal Zone, West Bengal, the environmental impact assessment of Haldia Port Town, West Bengal, and the decentralized planning for rural development. Tomaz Ponce Dentinho is a professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal in the domains of regional, environmental and agricultural economics. Since 2011, he has been the editor on Regional Cooperation of the South Asia Democratic Forum and since 2017 the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.
