Urban Health Risk and Resilience in Asian Cities, 1st ed. 2020
Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences Series

This book focuses on understanding urban vulnerability and risk mitigation, advancing good health and wellbeing, and analysing resilience measures for various Asian cities. Today, cities are the dominant human habitat, where a large number of environmental, social, cultural and economic factors have impacts on human health and wellbeing. Cities consist of complex, dynamic, socio-ecological, and technological systems that serve multiple functions in human health and wellbeing. Currently half of Asia?s population is urban, and that figure is expected to rise to 66 percent by 2050. Since urban areas are often most vulnerable to hazards, the people living in them need good health infrastructure facilities and technological support at various scales. As such, the need of the hour is to enhance the adaptive capacity, strengthen resilience, reduce vulnerability, and take risk mitigation measures in urban areas, which requires a systematic approach based on science?policy interface that is transformative, trans-disciplinary and integrative for a sustainable urban future. Global sustainable development goals are closely tied to urban human health and wellbeing: (1) the third of the United Nations? Sustainable Development Goals is to ?Ensure healthy lives and promote wellbeing for all at all ages? and (2) the eleventh is to ?Make cities inclusive, safe, resilient and sustainable?. By addressing these goals, this book offers a highly useful resource for anyone concerned with healthy and resilient cities in Asia, today and tomorrow.

Section 1: Urban Process, Vulnerability and Risk: Methods and Techniques

1.       Systems Approach for Climate Change Impacts on Urban Health: Conceptual Framework, Modeling and Practice (Yinpeng LI, Peter Urich, and Chonghua Yin, China)

2.       “SITE” (Societal-Institutional-Technical-Economic) Valuation framework : A case of drinking water facilities and services in slum areas of Hyderabad region (Anil Kumar Palakodeti, India)

3.       Inequalities in access to water and sanitation: a case of slums in major states of India (Anuradha Banerjee and Bidisha Chattopadhay, India)

4.       Chennai floods 2005, 2015: vulnerability, risk and climate change (T. Vasantha Kumaran, O. M. Murali and S. Rani Senthamarai, India)

5.       An environmental study of solid waste management system in of Chandrapur city, Maharashtra, India (Y. Y. Dudhapachare, India)

6.       Linkages between Purdah Practice, Women Autonomy and Their Health Beliefs in India (Pintu Paul, India)

7.       Development of urban heat island and its relation to heat waves (Rajashree Borah, India)

Section 2: Urban Health and Wellbeing

8.       Growing urbanization, health infrastructure and vector-borne diseases: A study in Khammam municipal corporation, Telangana state (A. Rambabu, G. S. Srinivasa Gopinath and B. Srinivas, India)

9.       Maternal Reproductive Health: A Comparison between India and Empowered Action Group States (Deepali Chanu Sanasam, India)

10.   Research Frontiers in Water, Environment and Human Health (Dilek Eren Akyuz, Turkey)

11.   Impacts of resource consumption and waste generation on environment and its impact on human health: A study based on ecological footprint analysis (Tanmoy Roy Tusher, TonmoyPondit, MoinulHasan, MahmudaBinteLatif and Md. Binyamin, Bangaladesh)

12.   The Impact Of Climate Change On Human Eyes (Iyyanki  V. Murali Krishna,    Prisilla Jayanthi G.,  M. Vijay Bhaskar Reddy, India)

13.   Health and Well-being of Ageing Population in India: A Case Study of Kolkata (Lakshmi Sivaramakrishnan and  Ambika Roy Bardhan, India)

14.   Noise pollution and its consequences on urban health in Sylhet city (Tulshi Kumar Das and  Rony Basak, Bangladesh)

15.   Health Scenario in Delhi – Status and Recent Trends of Vector Borne and Water Borne Diseases in NCT of Delhi (Vaneeta Chandna and  Subhash Anand, India)

16.   Quality of living, health and wellbeing of slum dwelling women domestic workers in Kolkata (Sudeshna Roy, India)

17.   Urban Growth and Environment and Health Hazards in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal (Bandana Pradhan, Puspa Sharma and Pushkar K. Pradhan, Nepal)

Section 3:  Integrated Urban Risk Mitigation and Resilience Measures

18.   Impact of Urbanisation on Megacities’ Lakes Using Remote Sensing Technique – A Case Study of Water Quality Analysis in Ambattur Lake, Chennai, India (Chandrasekar, V. and S. Mahamad, India)

19.   Impacts of urbanization of ground water pollution – an emerging issue and some suggestions (Ekataand K.S. Suhagand Rahul Chhoudhary, India)

20.   Evaluation of mass rapid transit system : A case study of Delhi (Meena Kumari and Anuradha Banerjee, India)

21.   The first survey of flood disaster Preparedness in Hanoi, Vietnam (Nguyen Dinh Minh, Vietnam)

22.   Tradition meets innovation: Herbal medicine as a sustainable source of anticancer agents (Shanoo Suroowan and Fawzi Mahomoodally, Mauritius)

23.   Urban Health Infrastructure in Small Cities:  Is it Availability or Accessibility? (Krishna Udnoor and Priya Narayanan, India)

24.   An approach to social sustainability in Chennai – understanding the dynamics of public places (Reshmi Panicker, India)

25.   Water scarcity in Delhi: Mapping for solutions and the way forward (Rituparna Bhattacharyya and Sanjay Prasad, United Kingdom)

Prof. R.B. Singh is a professor of geography at Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi; the Secretary General and Treasurer of the International Geographical Union (IGU); the chair of the Council for Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) – Central Food Technological Research Institute, the Government of India; and a member of the International Council of Science (ICSU) and the scientific committee on Urban Health and Wellbeing. He was awarded the prestigious Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Research Fellowship and has presented papers and chaired sessions in more than 40 countries. He has published 14 books, 35 edited research volumes and more than 215 research papers in national and international journals (e.g. Climate Dynamics, Current Science, Advances in Meteorology, Physics and Chemistry of the Earth, Agriculture, and Ecosystem and Environment). He is the editor of the Springer series Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences and Sustainable Development Goals.

Professor B. Srinagesh is a professor of geography at Osmania University, Hyderabad. He has a total of 17 years of research experience and has published numerous papers. He was the principal investigator for a major project on Globalization, Climate Change and its Impact on Health – Health Mapping of Andhra Pradesh, sponsored by the University Grants Commission (UGC) 2010–2013 and was awarded a UGC postdoctoral fellowship for 2015–2017. He organised the IGU India Conference on Urban Health and Wellbeing as well as the Committee on Data for Science and Technology (CODATA) Training Programme for young South Asian researchers with the support of the Chinese Academy of Sciences.

Dr Subhash Anand is currently an associate professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi. With over 20 years of teaching and research experience, he has published four books, as well as numerous resear

Presents the emerging field of urban health, risk, and resilience in Asian cities

Discusses the interactive relationship between urbanisation, environment, and health

Promotes a better understanding of two of Asia’s most challenging issues: urbanisation and disaster

Contributes to the International Council for Science Union initiative toward Future Earth’s Knowledge–Action Networks on human health and wellbeing in changing urban environments