Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia Socio-economic Drivers, Environmental Pressures and Policy Responses

Part I: Drivers of Urbanization.-  Introduction (Sumana Bandyopadhyay, Chitta Pathak, Tomaz Ponce Dentinho).- Sikkim - Once a Captivating au naturel Himalayan Kingdom in the Light of Its Growing Urban Scape (Sanghamitra Sarkar).- Urbanization Process in Nepal (Sunil Babu Shrestha).- Socio-economic and Cultural Factors Affecting Migration Behavior in Turbat, Baluchistan, Pakistan (Muhammad Ali Sheikh).- Part II: Pressures on the Environment.-  Sustainability and Climate Change: The Example of Bhutan (Elzbieta Jablonska).- Urbanization in Sri Lanka (Bilesha Weeraratne).- Disaster Risk Mitigation Strategies in the South-Western Coastal Region of Bangladesh (Tuhin Roy, Mahbuba Nasreen, Abdullah Abusayed Khan, Rezaul Karim).- Disaster Governance in South Asia: Special Reference to Nepal (Tej Kumar Karki, Nimesh Salike).- Part III: Restructuring Adapted Spaces.- Residential Mobility and Well-Being of the Aged in Old Age Homes of Kolkata (AmbikaRoy Bardhan, Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan).- Evaluation of Urban Basic Services and Role of Urban Governance: A Case Study of Selected Wards of Chandernagore Municipal Corporation (Arindam Dasgupta).- Micro-Level Analysis of Road Connectivity and Its Spatial Variation in Kolkata Municipal Corporation (KMC) Area. (Juber Alam, Mafizul Haque).- Nexus Between Urbanization, Land Use Conflicts and Agricultural Land Conversion: The Case of Hyderabad, Sindh, Pakistan (Habib Magis, Maulana Bux Perrzado).- Part IV: Effects on Society.- Migration and Entry to Urban Street Food Market: A Study of Selected Street Food Vendors in Delhi (Aditi Kundu, Sayak Dutta).- HIV/AIDS Vulnerability Among Street Children in Urban Bangladesh: A Reality of Old Dhaka (Saidur Rashid Sumon, Abdullah Abusayed Khan).- Status of Urban Poor in Kolkata: A Case Study of Squatter Settlements Along Beliaghata Canal (Anindata Ghosh).- Education and Bankura District, West Bengal (Mrinal Mandal, Debasis Ghosh).- Part V: Responses from Governance.- Exploring Dimensions and Elements for Smart City Development in India (Dillip Kumar Das, Sanjaykumar G. Sonar).- Citizens’ Preferences for Urban Parks of Kolkata: A Benefit-Cost Approach (Laxmi Narayan Saha, Sumana Bandyopadhyay).- Estimation of Surface Thermal Influx from Satellite Images in the Newly Developed Built-up Areas of South 24 Paragans District, West Bengal (Anwesha Haldar, Pradip Patra, Mafizul Haque).-

Sumana Bandyopadhyay is a professor at the Department of Geography of the University of Calcutta, India and specializes in regional planning and urban environmental planning. She published books and scientific peer-review articles as well as many interdisciplinarily applied work on environmental, societal and development issues.