Urban Environmental Management
Contents: 1. Introduction: urban environmental management: an agenda/Abha Lakshmi Singh and Shahab Fazal. 2. Development of the eco city - why and where sustainable urban development/Jurgen Breuste and Juirgen Riepel. 3. Socio-economic segmentation, inequality in micro environment and process of degradation peripheralization in New Delhi/Amitabh Kundu. 4. An integrated geo-spatial approach for monitoring urban environment management : issues and challenges in India/Atiqur Rahman . 5. Urban environmental management in India: issues and challenges/Abdul Shaban. 6. Environment and urbanization: the impact on human health/Koumari Mitra. 7. Socio-economic and health conditions of slum dwellers in Meerut City/Haroon Sajjad, Abha Lakshmi Singh and Harish. 8. Solid waste management in Himalayan hill spots: a case study of Kullu-Manali in Himachal Pradesh, India/Jagdish C. Kuniyal. 9. Urban green in Karachi, Pakistan/Mohd. Mushahid Anwar and Jurgen H. Breuste. 10. Decreasing urban water resources in the environs of Hyderabad/Vijaya Bhole and Anand Gopagani. 11. Rain water harvesting : a case study of Lucknow city/Ritu Jain. 12. Three decades of land-use changes in Guwahati City/Rubul Hazarika, Dhrubajyoti Sahariah and Anup Saikia. 13. Managing environment in urban slums: a case study of Patpar Gunj complex in New Delhi/Sabir Ali. 14. Issue of ecological sustainability of urban centres - a case study of Hyderabad urban agglomeration/Kausalya Ramachandran. 15. Monitoring urban environment by using RS and GIS techniques : a case study of Balewadi Village from Pune/Sulochana Shekhar and Jaymala Diddee. 16. Anthropographic impact on resources depletion and urban environmental planning: a case study of Hyderabad metropolis/S. Padmaja and Vijay Sarathy. 17. Landuse and work-force structure in peri-urban areas: implications for livelihood in three metropolitan cities/Sucharita Sen. 18. Urban Sprawl of Dehradun city : some emerging issues/Syed Naushad Ahmad, Sabahyddin and Mohd. Shamim. Index.
"The volume focuses on the growing concern of academia for urban environmental management. The volume throws light on issues associated with urbanization in rapidly growing economy, highlighting potential synergies and conflicts between competing and conflicting goals.
The urban environment in the volume highlights the physical environment in urban areas with its complex mix of natural elements and built environment, i.e. physical environment constructed and modified for human habitation as well as for their economic activity.
The volume consists of 17 articles from eminent researchers working on urban environment. The research articles are empirical studies conducted in different urban centres projecting factual status of urban environment and its management. The volume investigates important issues of urbanization such as land use--land transformation, livelihood structure, slum, inequality, water, sanitation, waste management and health etc." (jacket)
