LEADER 03980nam 22005895 450 001 9910484939003321 005 20220201194529.0 010 $a981-15-3951-0 024 7 $a10.1007/978-981-15-3951-0 035 $a(CKB)4100000011267061 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6210906 035 $a(DE-He213)978-981-15-3951-0 035 $a(EXLCZ)994100000011267061 100 $a20200527d2020 u| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurcnu|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aBlue Infrastructures $eNatural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata /$fby Jenia Mukherjee 205 $a1st ed. 2020. 210 1$aSingapore :$cSpringer Singapore :$cImprint: Springer,$d2020. 215 $a1 online resource (256 pages) 225 1 $aExploring Urban Change in South Asia,$x2367-0045 311 $a981-15-3950-2 327 $aIntroduction -- The natural evolution of the urban -- Tamed Interventions -- Untamed practices -- Disrupted networks -- Transformed infrastructures -- Polemics of planning, development and environment -- Urban environmentalisms -- Beyond declensionism, towards the useful narrative. 330 $aThis book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in turn, could get determined by political fate, economic calculations and social livelihoods across changing political-economic imperatives and with large-scale implications on urban sustainability. Employing historical urban political ecology (HUPE) as the methodological framework by combining urban environmental history and urban political ecology, the book studies the changing urban environmental equations through several centuries, and its impact on the city and its people. Weaving the past, present and posterity of deltaic Kolkata, the book demonstrates that it is in these ?blue infrastructures? that the anecdote of origin, the account of functioning and the apprehension of survival of the city is rooted. By emphasizing the ecology ?of? cities instead of ecology ?in? cities approach, the book exposes the limitations of contemporary ecological restructuring efforts regarding Indian cities. Further, it offers a blueprint for future innovative and empirical research focusing on other major cities. Accordingly, this topical and original book will be of interest to students and researchers of environmental humanities, political ecology and urban studies. 410 0$aExploring Urban Change in South Asia,$x2367-0045 606 $aSociology, Urban 606 $aCities and towns?History 606 $aUrban geography 606 $aHistory of South Asia$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/715040 606 $aUrban Studies/Sociology$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/X22250 606 $aUrban History$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/727000 606 $aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)$3https://scigraph.springernature.com/ontologies/product-market-codes/J15010 607 $aAsia$xHistory 615 0$aSociology, Urban. 615 0$aCities and towns?History. 615 0$aUrban geography. 615 14$aHistory of South Asia. 615 24$aUrban Studies/Sociology. 615 24$aUrban History. 615 24$aUrban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns). 676 $a307.12160954 700 $aMukherjee$b Jenia$4aut$4http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut$0968992 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910484939003321 996 $aBlue Infrastructures$92201412 997 $aUNINA