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Livelihood Opportunities and Challenges of Slum Dwellers in the Changing Urban Environment: A Case Study of Guwahati City Slums in India
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UrbanisationUrbanization has become a global phenomenon, characterised by the growth of cities which incorporate an increasing growthGrowth of population in the urban areas that represent more than half of the world’s population. In many developing countries, including India,India the rates of urban growthUrban growth have been higher than that for developed countries during their urban transition as the developing countries experienced higher rates of overall population growth. India witnessed a rapid urbanUrban transition with its urban populations increasing from 27.81% in 2001 to 31.16% in 2011, while 52.8% of the world population lived in cities in 2010. On a significant note, among the South Asian cities, IndiaIndia has witnessed a rapid growth of slumSlums population to the total urban population in the last few decades due to the rise of urbanisation in its citiesCities. The slumsSlums in India are the manifestation of rapid urbanisationRapid urbanization, urbanisationUrbanization of poverty and exclusionary and unequal processes existing in the cities of India, proportionately involve rural migrationMigrationto informal settlementsInformal Settlement in and around the cities. The chapter examines the urban growthUrban growth and expansion of Guwahati cityGuwahati city, the only million-plus city of the Northeastern Region of IndiaIndia, the largest urbanUrban centre as well as the gateway to the Northeast India, a region lying on the cross-roads between India and South-east Asia. The chapter analyses the livelihood opportunitiesLivelihood opportunities and the emerging vulnerable situations and challengesChallenges in the slumSlums settlements of Guwahati cityCities of Assam.
Livelihood Opportunities and Challenges of Slum Dwellers in the Changing Urban Environment: A Case Study of Guwahati City Slums in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-0655
UrbanisationUrbanization has become a global phenomenon, characterised by the growth of cities which incorporate an increasing growthGrowth of population in the urban areas that represent more than half of the world’s population. In many developing countries, including India,India the rates of urban growthUrban growth have been higher than that for developed countries during their urban transition as the developing countries experienced higher rates of overall population growth. India witnessed a rapid urbanUrban transition with its urban populations increasing from 27.81% in 2001 to 31.16% in 2011, while 52.8% of the world population lived in cities in 2010. On a significant note, among the South Asian cities, IndiaIndia has witnessed a rapid growth of slumSlums population to the total urban population in the last few decades due to the rise of urbanisation in its citiesCities. The slumsSlums in India are the manifestation of rapid urbanisationRapid urbanization, urbanisationUrbanization of poverty and exclusionary and unequal processes existing in the cities of India, proportionately involve rural migrationMigrationto informal settlementsInformal Settlement in and around the cities. The chapter examines the urban growthUrban growth and expansion of Guwahati cityGuwahati city, the only million-plus city of the Northeastern Region of IndiaIndia, the largest urbanUrban centre as well as the gateway to the Northeast India, a region lying on the cross-roads between India and South-east Asia. The chapter analyses the livelihood opportunitiesLivelihood opportunities and the emerging vulnerable situations and challengesChallenges in the slumSlums settlements of Guwahati cityCities of Assam.
Livelihood Opportunities and Challenges of Slum Dwellers in the Changing Urban Environment: A Case Study of Guwahati City Slums in India
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5383-0655
UrbanisationUrbanization has become a global phenomenon, characterised by the growth of cities which incorporate an increasing growthGrowth of population in the urban areas that represent more than half of the world’s population. In many developing countries, including India,India the rates of urban growthUrban growth have been higher than that for developed countries during their urban transition as the developing countries experienced higher rates of overall population growth. India witnessed a rapid urbanUrban transition with its urban populations increasing from 27.81% in 2001 to 31.16% in 2011, while 52.8% of the world population lived in cities in 2010. On a significant note, among the South Asian cities, IndiaIndia has witnessed a rapid growth of slumSlums population to the total urban population in the last few decades due to the rise of urbanisation in its citiesCities. The slumsSlums in India are the manifestation of rapid urbanisationRapid urbanization, urbanisationUrbanization of poverty and exclusionary and unequal processes existing in the cities of India, proportionately involve rural migrationMigrationto informal settlementsInformal Settlement in and around the cities. The chapter examines the urban growthUrban growth and expansion of Guwahati cityGuwahati city, the only million-plus city of the Northeastern Region of IndiaIndia, the largest urbanUrban centre as well as the gateway to the Northeast India, a region lying on the cross-roads between India and South-east Asia. The chapter analyses the livelihood opportunitiesLivelihood opportunities and the emerging vulnerable situations and challengesChallenges in the slumSlums settlements of Guwahati cityCities of Assam.
Livelihood Opportunities and Challenges of Slum Dwellers in the Changing Urban Environment: A Case Study of Guwahati City Slums in India
Springer Geography
Chatterjee, Uday (editor) / Bandyopadhyay, Nairwita (editor) / Setiawati, Martiwi Diah (editor) / Sarkar, Soma (editor) / Borgohain, Trinity (author)
2023-05-24
26 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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