Urbanization and Regional Sustainability in South Asia

​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.Chitta Ranjan Pathak is an Indian city and regional planner as well as research consultant. His achievements include the environment management plan for Digha Coastal Zone, West Bengal, the environmental impact assessment of Haldia Port Town, West Bengal, and the decentralized planning for rural development.Tomaz Ponce Dentinho is a professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal in the domains of regional, environmental and agricultural economics. Since 2011, he has been the editor on Regional Cooperation of the South Asia Democratic Forum and since 2017 the Editor-in-Chief of the Journal Regional Science Policy and Practice.

• 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 (Elżbieta Jabłońska).- 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).-