In India, peri-urban areas are too often neglected. Many people live in poverty and face increasing marginalisation and food insecurity. Yet peri-urban agriculture could be a major contributor to poverty…
India’s peri-urban frontier: rural-urban transformations and food security
Why Peri-urban Ecosystem Services Matter for Urban Policy
This policy briefing draws on insights from the Risks and Responses to Urban Futures project. This briefing draws on recent research to show how people benefit from ecoystems in and…
Recognising sustainability frontiers in the peri-urban
Published in the SAWAS Journal of South Asian Water Studies. This article is concerned with the need to recognize the peri-urban as a frontier of urban sustainability, and to build…
Rethinking urban waste management in India
Download the briefing (PDF 533kb) New thinking, practice and policy recommendations for sustainable urban waste management informed by robust research, addressing both environmental and social justice concerns. Patterns of urban…
ISSC concept note: Water, Waste and Sustainable Cities in India
Download PDF (326 KB) Urban areas in India suffer significant challenges associated with water and waste, with direct implications for agriculture, health and food safety. Local innovations, often in informal…
Policy transformations and translations: lessons for sustainable water management in peri-urban Delhi, India
This paper explores the complex interactions that occur as formal policies are interpreted and utilised to develop water management plans in peri-urban Delhi. With an emphasis on people’s participation in…
Bangalore: Living in a Global City
A film exploring the positive and negative effects of rapid urbanisation in Banglalore, once a ‘pensioner’s paradise’, now a global information technology hotspot, home to Infosys and Wipro, and one…
Peri-urban sustainability
Over the last five years, the ESRC STEPS Centre has explored the management of resources in peri-urban areas, and how sustainability can be defined and sought in this context. We…
Understanding Peri-urban Sustainability: The role of the resilience approach
Resilience is a term that is widely used by scholars from different disciplines who promote action research between science and policy. This paper is largely concerned with how resilience approaches…
Contesting sustainabilities in the peri-urban interface
This research report is intended to inform and encourage debate on the management of resources in the peri-urban fringe. In particular it demonstrates how the dominant, mainstream, strategies for water…