Urban expansion beyond the city's administrative boundaries has altered villages to a great extent. These peri-urban villages are experiencing unforeseen changes in demographic, economic, land-use, and environmental characteristics. The concept of peri-urbanization is grabbing the attention of urban planners and policymakers globally. To understand the dynamics of the peri-urban region it is crucial to examine multiple rural and urban characteristics. This book studies major changes in population, land and development with the integration of remotely sensed data and census data for 615 peri-urban villages surrounding Ahmedabad city of India. The chapters of the book are designed to cover key aspects of peri-urban change with geospatial methods. This book offers a comprehensive understanding and importance of analyzing peri-urban dynamics at the smallest spatial unit. It provides a detailed conceptual and methodological framework for the students and researchers to study peri-urbanization as well as for the policymakers to redefine the urban policies.

Provides a comprehensive and holistic approach to study the peri-urban dynamics at small spatial units Includes in-depth discussions on changes in population, development and land in the peri-urban region Illustrates a framework to integrate spatial data with census data to study micro-level peri-urban changes

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Ankit Sikarwar is a senior research fellow at the International Institute for Population Sciences in Mumbai, India. His work mainly focuses on land alterations and urban issues in cities, and their links with population dynamics, as well as their impact on the environment. Prior to his Ph.D., Ankit analyzed urban land use changes in Indian cities during his M.Phil. and Master of Population Studies courses. He also holds an M.Sc. in Geography from the Maharaja Sayajirao University of Baroda in India. He has completed short training courses run by the Indian Space Research Organization (ISRO), Ahmedabad, and the Geo-informatics and Space Technology Development Agency of Thailand (GISTDA). He has presented his research on population and land dynamics at various national and international conferences, such as the Population Association of America Conference, 2017, Chicago, USA; Asian Population Association Conference, 2018, Shanghai, China; and Open Science Meeting 2019, Bern, Switzerland. Aparajita Chattopadhyay is has been a faculty member at the International Institute for Population Sciences and the Banaras Hindu University for almost two decades. She has been involved in a number of well-known research projects and publications, and she has received various awards and grants for demographic and population-related research from respected universities and organizations like the University of Calcutta, International Institute for Population Sciences, Indian Association for the Study of Population, University of Karachi, in India, and the University of Harvard, and RAND corporation in the USA. Her areas of interest include gender issues, environment and development, and nutrition and aging.

Klappentext

Urban expansion beyond the city s administrative boundaries has altered villages to a great extent. These peri-urban villages are experiencing unforeseen changes in demographic, economic, land-use, and environmental characteristics. The concept of peri-urbanization is grabbing the attention of urban planners and policymakers globally. To understand the dynamics of the peri-urban region it is crucial to examine multiple rural and urban characteristics. This book studies major changes in population, land and development with the integration of remotely sensed data and census data for 615 peri-urban villages surrounding Ahmedabad city of India. The chapters of the book are designed to cover key aspects of peri-urban change with geospatial methods. This book offers a comprehensive understanding and importance of analyzing peri-urban dynamics at the smallest spatial unit. It provides a detailed conceptual and methodological framework for the students and researchers to study peri-urbanization as well as for the policymakers to redefine the urban policies.

Inhalt

Chapter 1. Introduction.- Chapter 2. Spatio-temporal patterns of population characteristics in the peri-urban region.- Chapter 3. Spatial patterns and shift in the components of work participation.- Chapter 4. Spatial patterns of infrastructure facilities and change.- Chapter 5. Analyzing major land alteration processes in peri-urban villages.- Chapter 6. Spatial association of population, work participation, infrastructural and land alterations.- Chapter 7. Summary, conclusion and policy implications.