Re-imagining the Indian Underground

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Anthony Acciavatti
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
Groundwater Distribution

Long heralded as a crucial technological input for the successes of the Green Revolution in South Asia, for over half a century tubewell technologies have played a decisive, yet unacknowledged role in sustaining cities and towns as well as farms and factories across India. Drawing on a decade of fieldwork and archival research, this chapter recounts the biography of this fantastic technology and its importance to farmers and urbanites as well as its shifting position within larger geopolitical debates and technology transfers. As cities and towns continue to compete with industry and agriculture for groundwater, distribution and access to tubewells will become central to landscape and urban development within the region.

scholarly journals Analyzing the Welfare-Improving Potential of Land Pooling in Thimphu City, Bhutan: Lessons Learned from ADB’s Experience

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor Bacani ◽  
Shinjini Mehta
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Urban Areas ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Full Range ◽  
Local Area ◽  
Lessons Learned ◽  
Management Tool ◽  
Welfare Gains ◽  
Steep Slopes

This paper examines empirically and spatially how welfare gains are realized in a land pooling scheme in four ADB-financed Local Area Plans (LAPs) in Thimphu city, Bhutan. Increased government efforts are required to take advantage of the full range of benefits of land pooling for Thimpu residents. The paper recommends a mix of fiscal and urban policy levers to address inefficiencies associated with the existing build-out pattern and infrastructure service quality. It offers insights on how unplanned development occurring outside serviced LAP areas, including along steep slopes and peri-urban areas in Thimphu thromdes, can be addressed most effectively. This paper is the second in a series of three working papers on the topic of land pooling produced by the Asian Development Bank’s South Asia Urban Development and Water Division. The series takes a deeper look at aspects including land pooling’s effectiveness, welfare-improving potential, relationship with safeguard policies, and its prospects as a land management tool in developing country cities.

The Construction of Equality

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jennifer Mack
Keyword(s):  
Social Change ◽  
Built Environment ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
Participant Observation ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Spatial Practices ◽  
Research Site ◽  
Immigrant Experience

In The Construction of Equality, Jennifer Mack shows how Syriac-instigated architectural projects and spatial practices have altered the Swedish city’s built environment “from below.” Combining architectural, urban, and ethnographic tools through archival research, site work, participant observation, and interviews, Mack provides a unique take on urban development, social change, and the immigrant experience in Europe over a fifty-year period.

Migration, Settlement, and State Formation in the Ganga Plain: A Historical Geographic Perspective

2014 ◽  
Vol 57 (4) ◽  
pp. 587-627 ◽  
Author(s):  
Murari Kumar Jha
Keyword(s):  
Urban Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
State Formation ◽  
Transitional Zone ◽  
Ganga Plain ◽  
First Millennium ◽  
Migratory Movements ◽  
North Western ◽  
Geographic Perspective

By a consideration of geography and environment, this essay raises questions about migration, settlement, and state formation in the Ganga plain from the first millenniumbceto the early second millenniumce. It asks why Indo-Aryan speakers continued to migrate from north-western parts of South Asia towards the Ganga plain during the first millenniumbceand precisely what route they followed. To understand better these largely misunderstood historical problems related to migration and settlement, the essay casts doubt on the utility of geographers’ tripartite division of the Ganga plain, proposing instead a division based on aridity and rainfall. Such a division helps explain why the transitional zone between the drier and the more humid areas of the Ganga plain became the linchpin of migratory movements, state formation, and urban development since at least the middle of the first millenniumbce.

scholarly journals A Green Revolution? A Tentative Assessment of the European Green Deal

2021 ◽  
Vol 16 (3) ◽  
pp. 85-107
Author(s):  
Marco Siddi ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Fossil Fuels ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Public Funding ◽  
Successful Implementation ◽  
Technology Transfers ◽  
Energy Trade ◽  
Legal Competence ◽  
Policy Priority ◽  
Traditional Pattern ◽  
The Impact

In this article the main aspects of the European Green Deal proposed by the European Commission in December 2019 are analyzed, putting the Green Deal into the broader context of European Union (EU) climate governance in order to assess whether and how it advances the EU’s climate agenda. Four broad and interrelated categories to evaluate the Green Deal are proposed. Its performance depends on whether it is and will remain a policy priority, despite the COVID-19 emergency and the ensuing economic crisis. Second, successful implementation depends on adequate financial endowment, including the shift of public funding from hydrocarbons to renewables and energy efficiency in post-pandemic economic programmes. The legal competence of EU institutions to coordinate and enforce the implementation of the Green Deal is also essential, as highlighted by ongoing discussions concerning governance to achieve zero net emissions by 2050. Furthermore, international cooperation with third partners on issues such as border carbon adjustment, technology transfers, and green industry will influence both the implementation of the Green Deal in the EU and the contribution of other major emitters to the climate agenda. The impact of the European Green Deal on EU-Russia relations is also investigated. In this respect, it is argued that the Green Deal poses a serious challenge to the traditional pattern of EU-Russia energy trade, which has been dominated by fossil fuels. However, the Green Deal also offers new avenues for cooperation and for a more sustainable EU-Russia energy relationship.

Sports Education in Colonial Bengal: A Double-Edged Sword?

2018 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 268-286 ◽  
Author(s):  
Basudhita Basu
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
Indian Subcontinent ◽  
Archival Research ◽  
Sports Culture ◽  
Insufficient Attention ◽  
Colonial Policies ◽  
Educational Agenda

Insufficient attention has been given to studies that relate sports, education and colonial policies in South Asia. Partly based on archival research, this article brings out different perspectives on the introduction of British sports into colonial Bengal as an educational device to produce obedient subjects. Several hegemonic and educational agenda intersected to formulate civilising ambitions. However, these turned out to be only partially successful, since the civilising aims of colonial sports education were constantly undercut by local acts of adaptation and modification. Dramatic evidence of Indians’ sports victories, in due course, severely challenged hegemonic agenda, so that strengthening and educating ‘the natives’ through sports turned out to be a double-edged sword. But this process also gave the Indian subcontinent a unique, exciting sports culture with nationalist colourings.

Perspectives on the ‘Green Revolution’ in South Asia

1986 ◽  
Vol 20 (1) ◽  
pp. 175-199 ◽  
Author(s):  
B. H. Farmer
Keyword(s):  
South Asia ◽  
South Asian ◽  
Tamil Nadu ◽  
English Language ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Agrarian Change ◽  
Asian Studies ◽  
South Asian Studies ◽  
Look Back ◽  
The One

The choice of the word ‘perspective’ in the title of this lecture exploits the ambiguity to which the English language so happily lends itself. For the lecture will, on the one hand, look back over the valley of the years at the research project on technology and agrarian change in two rice-growing areas, one in Sri Lanka and the other in Tamil Nadu, which was organized from the Centre of South Asian Studies, University of Cambridgejust over ten years ago, remembering some of its findings (see Farmer, 1977) and discussing certain further changes that have taken place in the study area and elsewhere in South Asia in those ten years. The project, it should be said, was inter-disciplinary; involved both sample surveys and studies in depth; and can claim to have attained the fruitful relationship between disciplines and between techniques of field study that some have described as ‘hard to achieve’ (e.g., Hoben and Timberg, 1980).

Politics will drive and impede Pakistan's urban policy

2016 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Service Delivery ◽  
Urban Development ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Public Service ◽  
Urban Policy ◽  
Policy Discourse ◽  
Foreseeable Future ◽  
Demographic Shift ◽  
Content Type

Subject Urbanisation outlook. Significance Pakistan is among the most urbanised countries of South Asia, experiencing a consistent and long-term demographic shift to urban centres. Long neglected, urban development and planning have only recently become part of the policy discourse, largely as the urban electorate has expanded significantly. Impacts For the foreseeable future, public service delivery will not keep pace with demand. The counterinsurgency campaign, when expanded nationwide, risks spiking migration into cities, further stretching urban provision. A coherent and concerted urban policy push is years away.

The Green Revolution Controversy

Food Politics ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Paarlberg
Keyword(s):  
Latin America ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
South Asia ◽  
Green Revolution ◽  
Rice Seeds ◽  
1960S And 1970S ◽  
The 1960S

What was the green revolution? The original green revolution, which took place in the 1960s and 1970s, was an introduction of newly developed wheat and rice seeds into Latin America and into the irrigated farming lands of South Asia and Southeast Asia. These new seed...

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