Darshini Mahadevia
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Sustainable energy and local resource security has led the government of Peoples Republic of China (PRC) to support grassroots innovations in the use of biomass on one hand and strengthen and introduce national level legislation to related to environmental pollution and sustainable natural resource use. The grassroots innovations have come through on account of the farmers’ desire to improve their working and living conditions, while innovative technologies ...
There is either glamourizing of informal sector or a desire to rapidly formalize it, the latter leading to exclusions and disruptions in people’s life. But, the residents of these informal settlements desire change, but at a pace and way suitable to them. This book is a collection of articles on shelter security in urban India based on the research work undertaken at the Centre for Urban Equity (CUE), CEPT University over the last few years. The articles ...
The book analyses how the city of Ahmedabad, which could cope with the crisis of deindustrialisation in the post-Independence period, thanks to the enterprising spirit of the people and flexibility in economic base is currently struggling with problems of a globalising regime. The workforce has become more vulnerable due to uncertainty of employment and earning opportunities. Urban development processes, that were inclusive in the past, are becoming more and more ...
This book is about the local impacts of a global phenomenon, the connection. It is putting together of policies and reforms in urban India in the period of reforms and observing manifestation of reforms in two metropolitan cities, Ahmedabad and Bangalore. It is for the first time that national and state level policies and reform activities are put together in the same place. The policies and reforms have been observed at the national level and state level. But, ...
Managing solid waste has become crucial for the health of urban citizens and for improving competitiveness of cities in India. As a result of public interest litigation, the Supreme Court of India ruled that major cities were to adopt appropriate systems of solid waste management by 2003, and even published a detailed handbook describing appropriate steps and standards. This book is about the comparative research work undertaken in the eight cities in India, ...
This book is collection of articles on the rapid ongoing transformations within the Asian cities in the period when Asia is rising economically. It is about the processes of these transformations, State Policy in support of these transformations, exclusions and inclusions in therein and contestations and resistance by those getting adversely affected by the changes in urban space. While there are dramatic changes in the city structure and improvement in ...