Sustainability in South Asian Cities
暫譯: 南亞城市的可持續性

本書探討南亞城市面臨的一些常見社會經濟和環境挑戰，這些挑戰仍然未受到充分研究。南亞由八個國家組成——印度、孟加拉國、尼泊爾、斯里蘭卡、不丹、馬爾地夫、巴基斯坦和阿富汗，2022年總人口達到19.2億。這些國家的大多數城市特徵為隨意的城市化和多維度的貧困，以及與之相關的因素——洪水、水資源短缺、糧食危機、衛生條件差、貧民窟和非法定居點以及污染等。本書由跨學科的學者貢獻，包含25個案例研究。該書將這些社會經濟和環境挑戰凸顯出來，以便更好且更細緻地理解。這本書幫助政策制定者減輕挑戰並建立可持續的城市。

Dr. Subhash Anand is currently a professor of geography at the Department of Geography, Delhi School of Economics, University of Delhi, India. He has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research and has published 7 books and more than 70 research papers, articles and chapters in journals and books. He specialises in urban environmental issues, sustainability, solid waste management and planning and geotourism. Dr. Anand is the vice president of the Indian Geographical Society (IGS) and the vice chair of the Commission on Geoheritage, International Geographical Union (IGU). He is a series editor of the Advances in Geographical and Environmental Sciences and an associate editor-in-chief of the International Journal of Geoheritage and Parks as well as an editorial board member of many journals. He has held an advanced training workshop, Urban Spatial Planning in Response to Climate Change in Asia, in Taipei and a Commonwealth Geographical Bureau (CGB) workshop, Human Consequences of Climate Change, at the University of Colombo. He has travelled widely to participate in international conferences, seminars and workshops and has delivered lectures in several countries.

Dr Rituparna Bhattacharyya is an adjunct professor at the Indian Institute of Technology, Guwahati; a visiting professor at the University of Science and Technology, Meghalaya; and an independent research consultant and Editor-in-Chief (Joint) of the SCOPUS-indexed international journal Space and Culture, India published from the UK. She accomplished her senior fellow position at Advance HE (formerly Higher Education Academy, UK) in 2021. Rituparna is currently the Series Editor for Gender and Violence, Routledge, Taylor and Francis. She also works as an Associate Editor for two international journals. They are Humanities and Social Sciences Communications (nature.com), Springer Nature and Diversity & Inclusion Research published by Wiley. Rituparna was appointed Executive Council member of Cotton University, India, in November 2023.

Earlier in 2009, she obtained her Ph.D. from the School of Geography, Politics and Sociology, University of Newcastle, UK. This research was funded by an Overseas Research Scholarship (ORS) and an International Research Scholarship (IRS). In 1994, she received the Jawaharlal Nehru Memorial Award for standing First Class First (Geography Major) from Cotton College (now University). And in 1996, she secured First Class First (in MA, Geography) from Banaras Hindu University. She was also the recipient of the National Merit Scholarship from the Government of India.

She has more than 25 years of teaching and research experience. She bears expertise in geohumanities linked to gendered politics, inequalities, poverty, violence, sustainable goals, and development in the global south. She serves as an anonymous journal reviewer of 26 high-quality peer-reviewed journals. Dr. Bhattacharyya volunteers at the Prag Foundation for Capacity Building, a public charitable trust in India, and the Alliance for Community Capacity Building for Northeast India, a UK-registered charity. She has more than 89 publications to her credit.

Madhushree Das is currently a Professor at the Department of Geography, Gauhati University Assam, India. She has more than 25 years of experience in teaching and research. Dr Das is a social and cultural Geographer who works in social, cultural, gender, and tribal geography. She has authored three books, edited three more and published more than 55 research papers in national and international journals. She received the international geographical travel grant award thrice to present her research in Durban (South Africa), Cologn (Germany), Szeged (Hungary) and Kyoto (Japan). She was the former General Secretary (elect)of the North East India Geographical Society (2016 to 2018). Besides, she is the executive council member and court member of Cotton University. She has received several awards and honours, including academic gold medal for securing first class first position in MA Geography, the Bhubaneswari Memorial gold medal for standing first in MA degree in all subjects of arts in 1997, the Deepali Barthakur Memorial award from the North East India Geographical Society, (NEIGS), National talent search examination, Government of India in 1989 and Commonwealth geographical bureau award in 2005.

Tulshi Kumar Das, Ph.D., is a professor of social work at the Shahjalal University of Science and Technology, Bangladesh. He earned his PhD and MPhil from Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi, India. He was the head of the Department of Social Work at the university for ten years and was the dean of the School of Social Sciences for two years. He has widely published articles in national and international journals and participated in conferences worldwide. He has completed research projects relating to slum culture, domestic violence, natural disasters, street children, micro-credit, food security, ethnicity, human rights, social work education and practice, nationalism, genocide, and the psycho-physical health of Bangladesh police, among others. He worked as a guest lecturer at the Faculty of Social Work and Health, Frankfurt University of Applied Sciences, Germany, and also acted as a visiting fellow at the Centre for Studies of South and South-East Asian Societies, Kazi Nazrul University, West Bengal, India. Professor Das is an editorial board member and a regular reviewer of many international journals. He is involved in 46 social welfare organizations working for marginalized people nationwide.

Pushkar K. Pradhan is a professor at the Central Department of Geography, Tribhuvan University. He received his PhD from the Institute of Geography and Regional Science, Klagenfurt University, Austria, an MSc in regional development planning from the Asian Institute of Technology, Thailand, and an MA in geography from the Tribhuvan University, Nepal. Affiliating to Tribhuvan University, Dr. Pradhan has four decades of professional experience in teaching and research. During this period, he held several positions at Tribhuvan University, such as the head of the Central Department of Geography, member of the Academic Council and faculty board member of the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences, and chairperson of the Geography Subject Steering Committee. He served as an executive member of the Steering Committees of three Commissions of the International Geographical Union, viz. Marginality, Public Policy and Local Governance, and four IGU conferences were successfully convened in Nepal in 2004, 2007, 2011, and 2019, respectively. He served as a member of the editorial boards of several journals published by the university and academic societies. Dr. Pradhan has published over five dozen research papers and books, participated in over four dozen international and national seminars, and been involved in a lead position in over 40 national and international research works.

Subhash Anand 博士 目前是印度德里大學經濟學院地理系的地理學教授。他擁有超過 25 年的教學和研究經驗，已出版 7 本書籍以及 70 多篇研究論文、文章和書籍章節。他專注於城市環境問題、可持續性、固體廢物管理與規劃以及地理旅遊。Anand 博士是印度地理學會 (IGS) 的副會長，也是國際地理聯合會 (IGU) 地理遺產委員會的副主席。他是 地理與環境科學進展 系列的編輯，並擔任 國際地理遺產與公園期刊 的聯合主編，以及多本期刊的編輯委員會成員。他曾在台北舉辦針對氣候變遷的城市空間規劃高級培訓工作坊，並在科倫坡大學舉辦英聯邦地理局 (CGB) 的氣候變遷人類影響工作坊。他曾廣泛旅行，參加國際會議、研討會和工作坊，並在多個國家發表演講。

Rituparna Bhattacharyya 博士 是印度工業技術學院 (IIT) 瓦哈提的兼任教授；梅加拉亞科技大學的訪問教授；以及英國出版的 SCOPUS 索引國際期刊《空間與文化》的聯合主編和獨立研究顧問。她於 2021 年獲得英國高等教育學院 (Advance HE，前身為英國高等教育學院) 的高級研究員職位。Rituparna 目前是 Routledge、Taylor and Francis 的性別與暴力系列編輯。她還擔任兩本國際期刊的副編輯，分別是《人文與社會科學通訊》（nature.com）和由 Wiley 出版的《多樣性與包容性研究》。Rituparna 於 2023 年 11 月被任命為印度棉花大學的執行委員會成員。

她於 2009 年在英國紐卡斯爾大學地理、政治與社會學院獲得博士學位。該研究由海外研究獎學金 (ORS) 和國際研究獎學金 (IRS) 資助。1994 年，她因在棉花學院（現為大學）地理學專業中以優異成績獲得 Jawaharlal Nehru 紀念獎。1996 年，她在班納拉斯印度大學的地理學碩士學位中獲得優異成績。她還曾獲得印度政府頒發的國家優秀獎學金。

她擁有超過 25 年的教學和研究經驗，專長於與性別政治、不平等、貧困、暴力、可持續發展目標及全球南方發展相關的地理人文學。她擔任 26 本高品質同行評審期刊的匿名審稿人。Bhattacharyya 博士在印度的 Prag 基金會（公共慈善信託）和英國註冊的東北印度社區能力建設聯盟擔任志願者。她的出版物超過 89 篇。

Madhushree Das 目前是印度阿薩姆州高哈提大學地理系的教授。她擁有超過 25 年的教學和研究經驗。Das 博士是一位社會與文化地理學家，專注於社會、文化、性別和部落地理。她著有三本書，編輯三本書籍，並在國內外期刊上發表了 55 篇以上的研究論文。她三次獲得國際地理旅行獎學金，以在南非德班、德國科隆、匈牙利塞格德和日本京都發表研究。她曾擔任東北印度地理學會的選舉總幹事（2016 至 2018 年）。此外，她還是棉花大學的執行委員會成員和法庭成員。她獲得了多項獎項和榮譽，包括在地理碩士學位中獲得優異成績的學術金獎、1997 年在所有藝術科目中獲得優異成績的 Bhubaneswari 紀念金獎、1989 年印度政府的全國人才搜尋考試獎，以及 2005 年的英聯邦地理局獎。

Tulshi Kumar Das 博士是孟加拉國沙賈拉爾科技大學的社會工作教授。他在印度新德里的 Jawaharlal Nehru 大學獲得博士和碩士學位。他曾在該大學社會工作系擔任十年的系主任，並擔任社會科學學院的院長兩年。他在國內外期刊上廣泛發表文章，並參加全球會議。他完成了與貧民窟文化、家庭暴力、自然災害、街頭兒童、小額信貸、食品安全、族裔、人權、社會工作教育與實踐、民族主義、種族滅絕以及孟加拉國警察的心理生理健康等相關的研究項目。他曾在德國法蘭克福應用科技大學社會工作與健康系擔任客座講師，並在印度西孟加拉邦的 Kazi Nazrul 大學南亞與東南亞社會研究中心擔任訪問研究員。Das 教授是多本國際期刊的編輯委員會成員和定期審稿人。他參與了 46 個全國性社會福利組織，致力於為邊緣化人群提供服務。

Pushkar K. Pradhan 是尼泊爾特里布萬大學中央地理系的教授。他在奧地利克拉根福大學地理與區域科學研究所獲得博士學位，在泰國亞洲科技學院獲得區域發展規劃碩士學位，並在尼泊爾特里布萬大學獲得地理學碩士學位。作為特里布萬大學的成員，Pradhan 博士擁有四十年的教學和研究專業經驗。在此期間，他在特里布萬大學擔任過多個職位，如中央地理系主任、學術委員會成員、人文與社會科學學院的教職員工委員會成員，以及地理學科指導委員會的主席。他曾擔任國際地理聯合會三個委員會的執行委員會成員，分別是邊緣性、公共政策和地方治理，並成功主辦了 2004、2007、2011 和 2019 年在尼泊爾舉行的四次 IGU 會議。他曾擔任多本由大學和學術社會出版的期刊的編輯委員會成員。Pradhan 博士已發表超過五十篇研究論文和書籍，參加了四十多場國際和國內研討會，並在四十多項國內外研究工作中擔任主要職位。