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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)