Description
Book SynopsisThis book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions. Conceptualizing development as a regional process is a geographer's brainchild, and the sense of region has long been rooted deeply in the fundamental research practices that geographers are accustomed to. The geographical perspective of regions entails conceptualizing them nested horizontally as the formal region and hierarchical relationships in space with spatial flows or interactions as the functional region. In geographical research, the region works as a tool by serving as a statistical unit of analysis. More importantly, however, regions serve as the fundamental spatial units of management and planning by specifying a territory or a part of it for which a certain spatial development or regulatory plan is sought. This book addresses the complex processes in different regions of the world, particularly South Asia, to perceive the regional development planning involved and the sustainable management practiced there. The book is a useful resource for socio-economic planners, policymakers, and policy researchers.
Table of ContentsChapter 1
Sustainable Regional Development with Environmental Practices
Chapter 2
Geopolitics of Sustainable Development
Chapter 3
The Transversal and Territorial Praxis of Regional Development
Chapter 4
Regional Development and Sustainable Responses to Climate Change and other Environmental Issues in Sri Lanka
Chapter 5
Regional Planning Strategy to Sustainable Development in Nepal
Chapter 6
Consequences of Dislocation and Involuntary Migration: Some Lessons from the Teesta River Bank Erosion Affected Communities
Chapter 7
Micro-Spatial Analysis of Rural Accessibility for Imbricating Regional Development: Exemplifying an Indian District
Chapter 8
Managing the Regional Inequalities in India with Particular Reference to the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme
Chapter 9
Understanding the Disability Divides in India: A Spatio-temporal Analysis with District-level Datasets
Chapter 10
How Far Gender Inequality Suppresses Human Development: Evidence from India
Chapter 11
Association of Morbidity among Children with Housing, Water, Sanitation Conditions in Urban India: A Policy Perspective
Chapter 12
Urban Heat Island Formation in Relation to Land Transformation: A Study on a Mining Industrial Region of West Bengal
Chapter 13
Housing Conditions with Reference to Seepage in Different Residential Localities in Mumbai
Chapter 14
Livelihood of the Displaced: A Study on Selected Areas of Bangladeshi Immigrants in West Bengal, India
Chapter 15
Household Vulnerability of Tribal People to Climate Change in the Part of Dooars Region, West Bengal, India
Chapter 16
Exploring the Options for Sustainable Livelihood in the Indian Sunderbans: An Attempt through Contingent Valuation Method
