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Record Nr.

UNINA9910977982303321

Autore

Mishra Mukunda

Titolo

Political Economy of Emerging Urban and Peri-urban Spaces in India : A Roadmap Towards Environmental and Social Sustainability / / edited by Mukunda Mishra, Vishwa Raj Sharma, Anjan Chakrabarti

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore : , : Springer Nature Singapore : , : Imprint : Springer, , 2024

ISBN

9789819788729

9819788722

Edizione

[1st ed. 2024.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (350 pages)

Collana

New Frontiers in Regional Science: Asian Perspectives, , 2199-5982 ; ; 81

Altri autori (Persone)

SharmaVishwa Raj

ChakrabartiAnjan

Disciplina

330.91732054

Soggetti

Regional economics

Spatial economics

Economics

Economic history

Asia - Economic conditions

Environmental economics

Regional and Spatial Economics

Political Economy and Economic Systems

Economy-wide Country Studies

Asian Economics

Environmental Economics

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

The Dynamic Urban and Peri-Urban Spaces in India and the Political Economy Lens: An Introduction -- Evolution of Urban Policy and Unconventional Methods of Governance in India: Exploring Neoliberalization’s Effect -- Muddling Through Waste: Self Governance and Collective Action in the Wastewater Commons -- Human Migration and Cultural Acclimatization: Indian Urban Scenario -- Green Sustainable Resilience and their Role in Urban Land Use -- Establishing Empowered City Governments in India: Institutional Approaches and



Lessons from Three Decades of the 74th Constitutional Amendment Act -- Impact of Urbanisation and Economic Growth on Environmental Quality in Metropolitan Cities in India -- Navigating Locomotion and Form-shifting Technologies in Age-Friendly Smart Cityscapes: West Bengal in Focus -- Hill Stations and Colonial Urbanism: Understanding the Landscape of Darjeeling (1835-1947) -- Geographical Insights into Diabetes among Urban and Rural Women in India: Exploring NFHS-4 and NFHS-5 Database -- Local Motor Cart (LMC) in Peri-Urban India: Political Economy of Unorganized Transport -- Urbanization and Environment: A Comparative Analysis of Delhi and Kolkata -- Digital Divides in Education in Urban, Peri-Urban, and Rural Areas in India: Coochbehar, A Backward District of West Bengal in Perspective.

Sommario/riassunto

This book addresses the “urban” and “peri-urban” spaces in India within a single frame. The reasoning is that while the former is studied for its transformation towards more value addition in terms of power and neoliberal economic viabilities, the latter is the land of visible transformation of the built environment. It acquaints readers with how the processes of circulation of migrant labour, the shift in occupations of landowning groups, and the residential cohabitation of diverse social groups contribute to re-scripting social relations, green spaces, and the forging of new subjectivities. The chapters of the book speak of the need to create sustainable cities for uncertain futures, with a quest to reverse global climate change and make an effort to halt urbanization at the cost of the natural ecosystem, all of which have become more urgent in the post-pandemic years. The book addresses different aspects of the evolutionary urban and peri-urban spaces in India amidst the conflict of the environmental and social sustainability agendas with the neo-liberal ascendancy. The integration of urban and peri-urban areas with emerging political and economic equations and the involvement of multiple disciplines to work in tandem for a deep insight into the complex phenomena incorporating diverse actors validate the need for such a volume. This edited volume seeks to record how all these stakeholders—state agencies, political leaders, businessmen, workers, investors, households, builders, real estate intermediaries, business owners, migrants, and many more with their varying capacities to influence outcomes on the ground—interact with one another. It also shows how multiple power relationships are calibrated and recalibrated to produce urban and peri-urban spaces in diverse ways in many parts of India.