Regional Cooperation in South Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Introduction: Interdisciplinary Approach to Regional Cooperation in South Asia

   • Sumana Bandyopadhyay, André Torre, Paulo Casaca, Tomaz Dentinho

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3. Social and Economic Aspects in South Asia Interaction

   1. Front Matter

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   2. International Trade and Widening Wage Gap: A General Equilibrium Approach

      • Rajat Acharyya

      Pages 11-30

   3. Causes and Effects of Foreign Direct Investment in South Asia

      • Tomaz Dentinho, Joaquim Ramos Silva

      Pages 31-45

   4. Migration Flows in South Asia

      • M. Mizanur Rahman Sarker

      Pages 47-68

4. Channels and Adapted Spaces of South Asia

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Some Aspects of Connectivity in South Asia: Issues and Way Forward

      • Ram Upendra Das

      Pages 71-97

   3. China-Pakistan Economic Corridor and Its Impact on Regionalisation in South Asia

      • Siegfried O. Wolf

      Pages 99-112

   4. Screaming Urbanization and Infrastructural Gap in South Asia: A Critical Analysis

      • Vijay Pandey

      Pages 113-130

   5. Housing Policy in India: Understanding the Missing Links

      • Kanika Basu, Nila Pandian

      Pages 131-150

5. Sustainability and Natural Resources

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Land Dispossession and Livelihood Adaptation: Challenges, Opportunities and Strategies in Rajarhat and Singur

      • Chinmoyee Mallik

      Pages 153-172

   3. Inter-State Conflicts within the Indian National River Linking Project: A Case Study of the Polavaram Dam

      • Klara Feldes

      Pages 173-188

   4. Sharing Water Across Indo-Bangladesh Border

      • Kalyan Rudra

      Pages 189-207

   5. Seawater Intrusion: Land Degradation and Food Insecurity Among Coastal Communities of Sindh, Pakistan

      • Habibullah Magsi, M. Javed Sheikh

      Pages 209-223

   6. Coastal Encroachment, Biodiversity and Distribution of Natural Coastal and Marine Resources in South Asia

      • Anisah Lee Abdullah

      Pages 225-248

   7. Energy Interdependency in South Asia

      • Md. Humayun Kabir, Syeda Shahida Maknun, Md. Jakariya

      Pages 249-263

6. Institutions and Democracy

   1. Front Matter

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   2. Negotiating Laws: Land Practices in the Process of City-Making in South India

      • Roxane de Flore

      Pages 267-283

This book highlights various challenges and opportunities for regional cooperation and development in South Asia. In light of the ongoing globalization process, the contributors investigate how socio-economic developments are changing the spatial organization of production as well as the profile of cities and landscapes, are stimulating the creation of maritime, terrestrial and aerial channels, and are putting increasing pressures on natural and environmental resources. 
The book is divided into four parts: The first part analyses the increasing intensity of regional trade, migration and investment flows; the second focuses on channels and adapted spaces. The third part addresses sustainability and natural resources, while the fourth highlights institutional issues. 

• Regional Cooperation
• South Asia
• Globalization
• Socio-economic Development
• Regional Development
• Spatial Organization of Production
• Environmental Resources

• University of Calcutta, Kolkata, India

  Sumana Bandyopadhyay

• INRA/AgroParisTech, Paris Cedex 05, France

  André Torre

• South Asia Democratic Forum, Brussels, Belgium

  Paulo Casaca

• University of Azores, Angra do Heroísmo, Portugal

  Tomaz Dentinho

Sumana Bandyopadhyay is professor at the Department of Geography of Calcutta University in India, specialized in Regional Planning and Urban Environmental Planning. She published books and scientific peer review articles as well as many interdisciplinary applied work on environmental, societal and development issues.


Paulo Casaca taught economics in the Azores and Lisbon universities. He was a member of the regional Azorean and Portuguese parliaments and a member of the European Parliament for ten years. He currently directs two international think tanks associations in Brussels and writes extensively on economics, terrorism and extremism.


André Torre is research professor at INRA (the French National Institute for Agricultural Research) and AgroParisTech. He is vice president of European Regional Science Association (ERSA), and Chief Editor of Revue d’Economie Régionale et Urbaine. He published thirteen books, fifteen special issues of scientific peer review articles as well as two hundred papers on the topics of proximity, innovation and regional development.


Tomaz Ponce Dentinho is a professor at the University of the Azores, Portugal in the domains of Regional, Environmental and Agricultural Economics. Since 2011 he is the executive director of the Regional Science Association International (RSAI). With his students and colleagues, he is the author of many newspaper articles, scientific papers and editor of several books. 

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