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  • An Exploration of Environmental Quality in the Context of Multiple Deprivations: The Case of Kalyan–Dombivli, India

    • Authors: Mishra, S.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Kuffer, M.; Martinez, J.; Pfeffer, K. (2018)

  • The asset vulnerability framework of Moser (Baud et al., 2009; Moser, 1998), focusing on assets that the poor possess, has built upon this new understanding of urban poverty. These assets exist in the form of physical, human, social, financial and natural capital. Drawing on this understanding and framework, a study by Baud et al. (2009) demonstrated the utility of an index of multiple deprivations to conceptualise the ‘multi-dimensional character’ of poverty for Delhi, Mumbai and Chennai in India. Despite this informed and integrated view, the natural dimension, which in urban areas translates mainly into environmental quality, often gets neglected in urban studies on multiple deprivations (Baud et al., 2009; Niggebrugge et al., 2005) because of limited environmenta...
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  • Post-Resettlement Socio-Economic Dynamics: The Case of Ahmedabad, India

    • Authors: Kotadiya, R.;  Advisor: -;  Participants: Kuffer, M.; Sliuzas, R. V.; Patel, S. (2018)

  • In general, urban development projects aim to improve the regional economy and individ-ual livelihoods. Yet, such projects often have a negative impact on some part of the population. Programmes for developing, for example, water supply (dams, reservoirs, irrigation canals, river-front and lakefront development), transportation (roads, highways, canals), mining, power plants and parks and forest reserves often result in development-induced displacement, requiring many people to resettle and rebuild their lives elsewhere (Cernea, 1997b; Jackson and Sleigh, 2000; Robinson, 2003).
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