Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia: Socio-economic Drivers, Environmental Pressures and Policy Responses

In: Contemporary South Asian Studies

In: Springer eBooks

In: Political Science and International Studies

Abstract

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 (Ambika Roy 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).-