Tag: Urban Political Ecology

  • Gatekeeping “Access”: Exploring Caveats to Public Greenspace Use for the Urban Poor

    Gatekeeping “Access”: Exploring Caveats to Public Greenspace Use for the Urban Poor

    Planning processes institutionalise the will of the politically powerful, shaping cities where equal access to urban public greenspace is several steps too far for the urban poor, quite literally and quietly figuratively. Environmental justice scholarship needs to integrate quantitative and qualitative measurements of access to understand what influences greenspace use along socio-economic indicators.

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  • Urban Waste Reuse in Peri-urban Agriculture

    Urban Waste Reuse in Peri-urban Agriculture

    Kartik Chugh Over the last few decades, we have witnessed more and more people migrating to urban centres. The growth of urban population has put cities under pressure. Consequently, cities have expanded their range. The process of urbanisation and industrialisation has resulted in the encroachment of peri-urban areas adjacent to the city. At the same…

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  • Whose City? Whose Commons?: Urbanization and the fate of (Peri) Urban Commons in India

    Whose City? Whose Commons?: Urbanization and the fate of (Peri) Urban Commons in India

    Factors such as urbanization have led to the depletion of Common Property Resources, affecting the livelihoods of many who depend on them for sustenance. Kartik Chugh(Research Intern, CUES-TIGR2ESS) The demise of CPRs Common property resources (CPRs) can be understood as natural resources of a community where every member has access and non-exclusive property/usage rights to…

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  • The Peri-Urban Interface: Development and land-use Politics

    The Peri-Urban Interface: Development and land-use Politics

    Kartik Chugh(Research Intern, CUES-TIGR2ESS) Towards Peri-urbanisation Through a Development Lens After decolonization, the world was divided into the developed and undeveloped world. The economic disparity between the First and the Third world generated the vision of development. Like many other developing countries, the Indian subcontinent after gaining independence initiated a Nationalist Development Project based on…

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  • Theorising Peri-Urban: Moving towards a Political Ecology Perspective

    Theorising Peri-Urban: Moving towards a Political Ecology Perspective

    Kartik Chugh A review of the literature suggests that there is no consensus on a single definition of the word “peri-urban”. Different authors have defined the peri-urban according to their needs and scope of work. However, they all agree that peri-urban is an area situated at the periphery of a city, having attributes of both…

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  • Where Access is Denied

    Where Access is Denied

    Ajay Immanuel Gonji Introduction Urban ecology is an evolving framework which integrates society and the environment at multiple scales. And while urban ecologists look for commonalities across urban ecosystems, in recent times, there has been much focus on the local and unique contexts which shape the socio-ecological character of each city (Grimm et al., 2015).…

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