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- Studies the complex interactions between cities, nature, and technology over extended timescales
- Employs the historical urban political ecology approach (HUPE), which combines urban environmental history and urban political ecology
- Draws on rich archival and ethnographic findings to capture the transformations of Kolkata’s blue infrastructure
Part of the book series: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia (EUCS)
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Table of contents (9 chapters)
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Front Matter
About this book
Keywords
- natural ecology of Kolkata
- saltwater marshes
- colonial history of Kolkata
- history of urban development in Kolkata
- East Kolkata Wetlands
- municipal canal networks
- sewage-fed agriculture
- pisiculture on wetlands
- post-colonial urban development projects
- urban environmentalisms
- Save the Wetlands Movement
- methodological cityism
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Authors and Affiliations
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Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Indian Institute of Technology Kharagpur, Kharagpur, India
Jenia Mukherjee
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Blue Infrastructures
Book Subtitle: Natural History, Political Ecology and Urban Development in Kolkata
Authors: Jenia Mukherjee
Series Title: Exploring Urban Change in South Asia
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-3951-0
Publisher: Springer Singapore
eBook Packages: History, History (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020
Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3950-3Published: 28 May 2020
Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-3953-4Published: 29 May 2021
eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-3951-0Published: 27 May 2020
Series ISSN: 2367-0045
Series E-ISSN: 2367-0053
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXV, 239
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations, 15 illustrations in colour
Topics: History of South Asia, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban History, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns)