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This comprehensive volume contributes to the existing and emerging body of literature on contemporary urbanization and the interactions between cities and the environment. The volume is contextualized against latest theories, debates and discussions on 'sustainable urbanization', the post-2015 development agenda of the United Nations and India's official launching of the 'smart city' agenda. The book includes innovative research across different parts of India, identifying city-specific sources of unsustainability and challenges along with strategies and potentials that would make the process of urban transition both sustainable and equitable.

"Foreword" -- "Preface and Acknowledgements" -- "Contents" -- "Editor and Contributors" -- "Abbreviations" -- "List of Figures" -- "List of Tables" -- "List of Maps" -- "List of Boxes" -- "1 Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing 'Sustainability' across Micro-political Settings" -- "1.1 Introduction" -- "1.2 Structure of the Book" -- "1.2.1 Setting the Context" -- "1.2.2 Governing Investments and Infrastructures" -- "1.2.3 Managing Wastes and Wetlands" -- "1.2.4 Exploring Urban Ecologies and Environmentalisms" -- "1.3 Towards a Sustainable, Just and Democratic Urban Transition" -- "References" -- "2 Towards Sustainable Cities in India" -- "2.1 Introduction" -- "2.2 Conceptual Perspectives on Urban Sustainability" -- "2.2.1 Brundtland Commission's Report of 1987" -- "2.2.2 Sustainability of the Built Environment" -- "2.2.3 Political Economy Approach" -- "2.3 Urban Sustainability as Policy in the Indian Context" -- "2.4 Implications of the Proposed Policies" -- "2.5 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "Governing Investments and Infrastructures" -- "3 Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization" -- "3.1 Introduction" -- "3.2 The Tension" -- "3.3 Green, Growing or Just?" -- "3.4 Linking Urbanization to the Structure of the Economy" -- "3.5 Some Aspects of Urbanization in India" -- "3.6 Anatomy of a Well-Intended but Ill-Designed Intervention" -- "3.7 Conclusion" -- "References" -- "4 Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad" -- "4.1 Background" -- "4.1.1 Arguments Over Alternative Provision of Tenure Security" -- "4.2 Methodology and Data Collection" -- "4.3 Types of Land Tenure" -- "4.3.1 Pavement Dwellers" -- "4.3.2 Tenants" -- "4.3.3 Informal Owner in Squatter Settlements" -- "4.3.4 Squatter Owners on Public Land" -- "4.3.5 Squatter Owners on Private Land

"Mushrooming of illegal housing on the periphery of cities is one of the main consequences of rapid urbanization associated with social and environmental problems in developing countries. This book discusses the linkage between urbanism and sustainability, and how sustainable urbanism can be implemented to overcome the problems of housing and living conditions in urban areas. Through case studies from India, Indonesia, China, etc. using advanced GIS techniques, it analyses several planning and design criteria to solve physical, social, and economic problems, and refers to urban planning as an effective measure to protect and promote cultural characteristics of specific locations in developing countries"

Intro -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Dedication -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors -- Foreword -- Contributors -- Section I: Urban Conservation, Land Transformation, and Regeneration -- 1. Crowdfunding and Place-Making Efforts in New Orleans -- 1.1 Introduction -- 1.2 Background Context -- 1.2.1 Crowdfunding -- 1.2.2 Placemaking -- 1.2.3 The Role of Resilience in the Placemaking of New Orleans -- 1.3 Research Design -- 1.3.1 Study Area -- 1.3.2 Data -- 1.3.3 Methodology -- 1.4 Analysis -- 1.4.1 Tabular Overview of Projects and the Global Outreach of Backers -- 1.4.2 Role of Place and Space -- 1.4.3 Grantfunding -- 1.5 Discussion and Conclusions -- Acknowledgement -- Note -- References -- 2. Exploring the Spatial Pattern of Urban Heat Island Formation in Relation to Land Transformation: A Study on the Paschim Barddhaman District of West Bengal -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Study Area -- 2.3 Database and Methodology -- 2.3.1 Database -- 2.3.2 Image Processing and Classification -- 2.3.3 Calculation of Land Surface Temperature (LST) -- 2.3.3.1 Step I Calculation of Radiation Luminance Form Digital Number -- 2.3.3.2 Step II Estimation of At-Satellite Brightness Temperature (TB) from Luminance of Radiance (Lλ) -- 2.3.4 Derivation of Spectral Indices -- 2.3.5 Profile and Correlation Analysis -- 2.4 Results and Discussion -- 2.4.1 Extent of Land Transformation -- 2.4.2 Changing Pattern of the LST in Winter and Summer -- 2.4.3 Regional Pattern -- 2.4.4 Relations between LULC Change and LST Pattern -- 2.4.5 Index: NDVI, NDBI, and NDBaI -- 2.4.6 Correlation -- 2.5 Conclusion -- References -- 3. Mechanisms for Brownfield Redevelopment: A Case of Indore City -- 3.1 Introduction -- 3.2 Background Study -- 3.2.1 Brownfield Redevelopment in India -- 3.2.2 Land Redevelopment Process in Madhya Pradesh.

Predominantly built upon collective practices and complex relations among different actors, the dried fish organizations of the Indian Sundarbans present everyday narratives of lives, experiences and challenges that are shaped by vulnerable social and ecological architecture of the region. This photo essay is a representation of practices, processes and situational complexities inherent in the dried fish camps – or shabars, as they are known in the Bengali dialect – the photos carving out 'storylines' focusing on the socially, culturally and historically induced interactions among people, place and entities of the evolving delta.

The hydrosocial cycle is a central analytical framework in political ecological approaches to water. It helps foreground multiple and subtle interactions between water and society, culture and politics. However, to date it has dealt little with matters other than water flows. In river contexts, biotic and abiotic components play critical roles in the way people engage with and make a living out of rivers, beyond water. This article aims to advance the hydrosocial framework with a deeper consideration of the materiality of rivers. To initiate this approach, the focus is here on sediments. Lives and livelihoods connected to river sediments remain both officially and academically under-explored. This certainly applies to the context of the Lower Ganges basin whose active channels transport huge loads of sediments mainly originating from the Himalayan slopes. Building upon an environmental history perspective and drawing on three spatially nested cases in West Bengal, India, the paper analyses instances of water-sediment-society interactions. The general case study presents colonial state interventions in the Lower Ganges basin waterscapes. The second case study zooms the focus on the 2 km long Farakka Barrage. These explorations reveal how an 'imported' conceptual land-water divide infused those interventions, leading to unforeseen effects on riverine lives and livelihoods. Focusing on Hamidpur char, situated few kilometres upstream of the barrage, the third case study recounts the contemporary efforts of local communities to obtain revision of administrative decisions unable to deal with 'muddyscapes'. Finally, the paper engages with recent debates on the concept of hybridity in land-water nexus to reflect on the specific meaning and role of sediments.

In a recent editorial in the journal Nature Sustainability, the editors raised the concern that journal submissions on water studies appear too similar. The gist of the editorial: "too many publications and not enough ideas." In this response, we contest this notion, and point to the numerous new ideas that result from taking a broader view of the water science field. Drawing inspiration from a recently hosted conference geared at transcending traditional disciplinary silos and forging new paradigms for water research, we are, in fact, enthusiastic and optimistic about the ways scientists are investigating political, economic, historical, and cultural intersections toward more just and sustainable human-water relations and ways of knowing.