Sustainable Urbanization in India: Challenges and Opportunities

Indian Urban Trajectories: Addressing 'Sustainability' across Micro-political Settings. by Jenia Mukherjee p.1, Towards Sustainable Cities in India by Annapurna Shaw p.23, Part I: Governing Investments and Infrastructures, 3. Structural Limits to Equitable Urbanization by Achin Chakraborty p.41, Alternative Provision of Tenure Security and Rights to the Urban Poor: A Case Study from Ahmedabad by Atanu Chatterjee 5. State, Governance and Urban Poor: Insights from Visakhapatnam City by Debapriya Ganguly p.79, 6. Performing Governance in Urban Patna by Sheema Fatima p.95, 7. Sustainability of Urban Fringe Development and Management in NCT-Delhi: A Case Study. Ramakrishna Nallathiga, Suhani Taneja, Anusha Gupta and Bitul Gangal p.109, Part II: Managing Wastes and Wetlands, 8. Evaluating Municipal Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities: A Comparative Assessment of Three Metros in South India by Shaik Sajith and Avinash Y. Kumar p.137, 9. Electronic Waste in Urban India: A Major Sustainability Challenge by Anwesha Borthakur p.161, How Expensive is the Decay of East Kolkata Wetlands? An Estimation of Opportunity cost for Kolkata by Debanjana Dey and Sarmila Banerjee p.181, 11. Urban Ecologies in Transition: Contestations around Waste in Mumbai by Sneha Sharma and D. Parthasarathy p.207, Part III: Exploring Ecologies and Environmentalisms, 12. Sustainability or (Sustain)ability? Environmentalism and Shades of Power in a Metropolis by Amit Jain p.227, 13. Gentrification and Rising Urban Aspirations in the Inner City: Redefining Urbanism in Mumbai by Dwiparna Chatterjee and D. Parthasarathy p.239, 14. Communities in a Protected' Urban Space and Conservation Politics in Mumbai's Sanjay Gandhi National Park by Amrita Sen and Sarmistha Pattanaik p.257, 15. Urban at the Edges: Mumbai's Coastline Urbanisms by Hemantkumar A. Chouhan, D. Parthasarathy and Sarmistha Pattanaik p.279, 16. Contested Urban Waterscape of Udaipur by Neha Singh, D. Parthasarathy and N.C. Narayanan p.295