| 期刊全称 | Blue Infrastructures | | 期刊简称 | Natural History, Pol | | 影响因子2023 | Jenia Mukherjee | | 视频video | | | 发行地址 | Studies the complex interactions between cities, nature, and technology over extended timescales.Employs the historical urban political ecology approach (HUPE), which combines urban environmental hist | | 学科分类 | Exploring Urban Change in South Asia | | 图书封面 |  | | 影响因子 | This book focuses on Kolkata, formerly the colonial capital of and currently a major megacity in India, in terms of its extensive blue infrastructures, i.e., its rivers, canals and wetlands as an integrated composite whole. It unfolds ways in which this reclaimed urban space could determine, and in turn, could get determined by political fate, economic calculations and social livelihoods across changing political-economic imperatives and with large-scale implications on urban sustainability. Employing historical urban political ecology (HUPE) as the methodological framework by combining urban environmental history and urban political ecology, the book studies the changing urban environmental equations through several centuries, and its impact on the city and its people. Weaving the past, present and posterity of deltaic Kolkata, the book demonstrates that it is in these ‘blue infrastructures’ that the anecdote of origin, the account of functioning and the apprehension of survival of the city is rooted. By emphasizing the ecology ‘of’ cities instead of ecology ‘in’ cities approach, the book exposes the limitations of contemporary ecological restructuring efforts regarding Indian cit | | Pindex | Book 2020 |
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