QUOTIDIAN URBAN CHALLENGES: Development, Environment and Health

About the Book :

India, like other Asian countries, is urbanizing quite rapidly. And, both persisting and emerging urban problems are acquiring unprecedented form and dimensions. The available academic works are generally over-burdened with theoretical issues and in many cases with abstraction. This book therefore seeks to bring together studies on some contemporary everyday—quotidian—urban problems an average Indian urban dweller confronts, like (ever-increasing) crowding, housing (shortage), garbage (mishandling), (increasing) pollution, (deteriorating) health and above all the need for effective and efficient governance. It is quite a worthwhile systematic treatment to such issues in a single volume that specifically provides a peep into all of them together.

Contents

Foreword

Professor (Dr.) V.C. Jha, Director

National Atlas Thematic Mapping Organisation

(NATMO), Kolkata

1. Nature of emerging quotidian urban challenges: Ravi S. Singh

2. 21st century Asian cities: Bharat Dahiya

3. Urban growth, sprawl and their consequences:

Ravi S. Singh and Satyendra N. Singh

4. Slums and urban environmental challenges in India: Arun K. Singh

5. High-rise buildings in metropolitan cities: Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan and Jayarati Dasgupta

6. Environment and sustainability in the Third World cities: Srabani Sanyal

7. Industrialization and quality of air: Piyal Basu Roy and Keshab Mondol

8. Management of solid waste in Indian cities: Abha Lakshmi Singh and Salahuddin Mohd. Khan

9. Solid waste management in Varanasi City: Shweta Yadav and Ram Bilas

10. Health situation in an urban environment: Amrita Dwivedi and V. K. Kumra

11. Risk zone assessment of an environmental health hazard: G.V. Narasimha Rao, B.V. Shiva Kumar and B. Hema Malini.

About Author :

Ravi S. Singh (PhD) is Professor at the Department of Geography, Banaras Hindu University (Varanasi, UP), India. Prof. Singh has several international as well as national academic publications in reputed journals and research series, many of them cross-disciplinary, to his credit. His major publications include Paths of Development in Arunachal Pradesh (2005, NBC), Indian Geography: Perspectives, Concerns and Issues (ed. 2009, Rawat Publications), Indian Geography in the 21st Century: The Young Geographers Agenda (ed. 2009, CSP), and Environmental Concerns: The Third World Perspectives (ed. 2014, YS Books International). Associated with several prestigious academic and scientific bodies, he is currently Vice-President: The Indian Society of Spatial Science (Presidency University, Kolkata) and Secretary: The Institute of Indian Geographers (Pune) besides being on the advisory board of many academic journals. The main areas of his academic interest are geographical thought, geography education, social and cultural geography, and development geography.