@article{695827,
      recid = {695827},
      author = {Sridhar, Kala Seetharam, and Wan, Guang Hua,},
      title = {Urbanization in Asia governance, infrastructure and the  environment / [electronic resource] :},
      pages = {1 online resource.},
      abstract = {This work focuses on urban governance in the developing  world, its aim being to bring a holistic perspective to the  debate on urban governance in Asia and around the globe. It  has been divided into three sections: The first section is  on rural interventions as they influence urbanization and  its problems/solutions. The second focuses on urban  governance, infrastructure programs, service delivery  reforms and their evaluation. The third and final section  focuses on urbanization and the environment. In the first  section, we present evaluations of Indias rural programs  including the Mahatma Gandhi National Rural Employment  Guarantee Act (MGNREGA), and of Indias Total Sanitation  Campaign (Nirmal Bharat Abhiyan). This section covers the  transition from rural to urban areas, and highlights coping  mechanisms in urban areas and policy implications for urban  governance, from the viewpoint of rural migrants. The  section on urban governance, infrastructure and service  delivery is the most in-depth one and consists of papers  that present state-of-the-art research on many aspects of  infrastructure such as cost and time overruns, risks and  their mitigation, assessments of the metro rail, and  services such as solid waste management. The focus of the  final section is on urbanization and the environment. Here  we examine land use change in India, the relationship  between urban form and residential energy use in Bandung,  Indonesia, and end by depicting a cautiously optimistic  view of Asias urbanization-environment nexus.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/695827},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1007/978-81-322-1638-4},
}