Overview
- Highlights the connections between urbanization and migration and their impacts on health, the environment and public policies
- Includes interdisciplinary case studies on the urbanization process in South Asia
- Discusses the effective use of new urban-management tools
Part of the book series: Contemporary South Asian Studies (CSAS)
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Table of contents (20 chapters)
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Drivers of Urbanization
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Pressures on the Environment
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Restructuring Adapted Spaces
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
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.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia
Book Subtitle: Socio-economic Drivers, Environmental Pressures and Policy Responses
Editors: Sumana Bandyopadhyay, Chitta Ranjan Pathak, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho
Series Title: Contemporary South Asian Studies
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-23796-7
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Political Science and International Studies, Political Science and International Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23795-0Published: 20 November 2019
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-030-23798-1Published: 20 November 2020
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-23796-7Published: 09 November 2019
Series ISSN: 2509-4173
Series E-ISSN: 2509-4181
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIX, 332
Topics: Urban Economics, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Urban Politics, Migration, Regional Development, Urban Studies/Sociology