The Yamuna's stretch within Delhi is considered as the dirtiest river reach in India and
despite numerous restoration plans, pollution levels have risen unabated. However, the …

Solid waste management is often perceived as one of the most pressing environmental
problems facing local governments in urban India and elsewhere in the global south …

Dynamic land-use changes in peri-urban areas in the Global South are often characterized
by a juxtaposition of planned and unplanned, formal and informal, legal and illegal …

Urban parks in India are often discussed as positive environmental projects, and their
creation appears as unproblematic in public discourse. This paper presents the creation of a …

The paper analyses the motivations of actors who reclaimed and appropriated the banks of
the Ebrié Lagoon in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, which were in many cases marginal lands under …

Urban nature is not given but produced. Whether in avenue trees or city parks, canals or
drains or even in marshlands, lakes, and rivers, the natural is inextricably enmeshed with the …

While the rejuvenation of India's rivers is a major future challenge for sustainable urban
development, riverfront development projects across India indicate that floodplains are often …

Rivers across the globe are the most prosperous regions and loci of development of
civilisations, eg, New York on the Hudson, Paris on the Rhine, and Delhi on the bank of …

In the context of environmental crises and rapid urbanisation (in South Asia and elsewhere),
the issue of urban environmental governance has come to the fore in regional and global …

Within the contemporary context of environmental crises and rapid urbanisation in South
Asia and elsewhere, this chapter reviews the emergence and development of approaches …