This open access book explores the implications of urbanization in South Asia for water (in-)
security in the peri-urban spaces of Dhaka and Khulna in Bangladesh Bengaluru Gurugram
Hyderabad Kolkata and Pune in India and Kathmandu Valley in Nepal. The book looks into
specifically peri-urban water security issues in a context of rapid urbanization and
social-environmental changes including the changing climate and its emerging impacts. It
demonstrates how urbanization processes change water flows between rural and urban areas the
implications of this processes for the water security of peri-urban populations and how new
institutions and technologies develop to mediate the relationships between peri-urban
communities and water. The book seeks to further the debate on peri-urban water security
including what constitutes the peri-urban socially differentiated access to water in
peri-urban spaces interventions for improving water access and emerging forms of cooperation
and conflict related to water access in a context of urbanization and climate change. As such
this book is an interesting read for academics with various disciplinary backgrounds
professionals working in the worlds of national and international policy NGOs activist groups
research and development institutes and individual readers interested in water security and
urbanization.
