URBAN GROWTH AND ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES IN INDIA

Book Details

• Author(s): Alpana Kateja, Rashmi Jain

• Publisher: Springer

• Language: English

• Binding: Hardcover

• Number of Pages: 359

• Release Date: 2024

• ISBN: 9789819974887

• Sale Territory: India Only

About the Book

This book delves into the complex relationship between urban growth and environmental challenges in India. It brings together contributions from various disciplines to examine the socioeconomic, administrative, and environmental threats posed by rapid urbanization. Topics such as climate change, health governance, energy issues, pollution, and e-waste management are explored, with suggestions for addressing these issues in the context of India's urban growth. The book is a valuable resource for researchers, students, and policymakers interested in urban studies and development studies, offering insights into how urbanization can be managed to foster sustainable development.

Contents

1. Introduction
   Alpana Kateja, Rashmi Jain

2. Urban Growth and Governance Issues

   • The Urban Transformation: Issues and Challenges — Rashmi Jain

   • Shelter for the Poor: Conundrum, Visions, and Methods of Urban Growth — Bhawana Vasudeva

   • Key Determinants of Urbanization in India: Evidence from State-Level Data — Seema Joshi

   • Contextualizing Smart Cities and Their Impact on Social Relations — Manish Yadav

   • Management of Rurban Area Development: Selected Indian Experience and Challenges — Yogesh C. Joshi

   • Urban Health Infrastructure: Governance Issues — Sandeep Narula, Narma Bhattacharya

   • Migration Pattern and the Emerging Trends of Migration in India — B. K. Nagla

3. Environmental Challenges

   • Environmental Kuznets Curve: A Revisit in the Case of SAARC — Maniklal Adhikary, Chandrasekhar Hajra

   • Looming Threat of Vehicular Pollution to Human Health — Alpana Kateja

   • Climate Change, Urbanization, and Impact on Natural Environment: The Indian Scenario — M. K. Pandit

   • An Analysis of Climate Change Related Vulnerability Among the Forced Migrants in India — Sunetra Ghatak

   • Vertical Farming: Resilience Towards Climate Change — Sonia Maheshwari

   • Ecology of Lakes and Reservoirs in Semiarid Regions of Rajasthan — P. D. Charan, K. C. Sharma

4. Waste Management and Energy Issues

   • Socio-Economic Implications of Waste Management — A. D. Sawant, Sujata Warrier, Geetanjali Pawar

   • Solid Waste Management in Urban Areas: An Urgent Priority — Ravinder Palakurthy, J. P. Kesari

   • Environment Hazards from Municipal Solid Waste of Urban Space: A Global Perspective — Amithy Jasrotia, Prama Esther Soloman

   • Urbanization and Pharmaceutical Waste: An Upcoming Environmental Challenge — Kritika Sharma, Garima Kaushik

   • Resource Sustainability by Electronic Waste Recycling — P. Parthasarathy

   • Renewable Energy in India: Potential and Prospects — Chandrakanta Mall, Prem Prakash Solanki

   • Necessity of Paradigm Shift from Non-renewable Sources to Renewable Sources for Energy Demand — Alka Kataria, T. I. Khan

About the Author(s)

Alpana Kateja is a Professor of Economics at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur, and a former Principal of University Maharani College, Jaipur. She is a gold medalist in Economics and has worked with Banaras Hindu University, Varanasi, and JNV University, Jodhpur. Her research interests focus on health outcomes, water resources, and lifestyle-related health issues. Her published works include Health Outcomes in India, Water and Health, Water Resource Management, and Lifestyle and Health.

Rashmi Jain is the Head and Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology at the University of Rajasthan, Jaipur. She specializes in development communication, gender studies, sociology of law, and leisure studies. Jain has authored and edited multiple works, including Women, Media and Violence, Women Empowerment: The Global Scenario, and Global Leisure and the Struggle for a Better World (Palgrave Macmillan). She is also the convener of the Working Group on Law and Migration of the International Sociological Association.