Cambridge Scholars Publishing The Urban Environmental Crisis in India: New Initiatives in Safe Water and Waste Management

This volume represents a unique collection of thoughts, ideas, views and visions of a number of water management experts. The book envisions long-lasting practices in safe water and waste management by talking to local community members, governments, and business owners, in order to find out how they live and what they need to feel healthy, safe, empowered, and successful. The sheer diversity of subjects, strength of arguments, force of articulation and the breadth of vision offered here is sure to provoke the reader to think about India. It highlights that the future of the emerging urban society lies in the proper management of waste and not in mere disposal. It comprehensive index facilitates easy reference and accessibility to the reader. As such, it will be useful for policy makers, administrators, research scholars and other stakeholders. Review "This book includes good initiatives practiced in the disposal and management of solid waste, sanitation technologies, urban water management, technologies for reducing carbon footprints, air pollution control and other urban environmental issues, with discussions on the challenges associated with them. The recommendations made by various authors have certainly been very useful to the Centre for Budget and Governance Accountability’s work vision for enhancing accountability in governance service delivery through the rigorous analysis of policies and government finances for tackling water, sanitation (waste management), environment and climate change. I found this book to be a very useful resource indeed for practitioners, officials, researchers, academics and policy makers for the better management of urban environmental crises."Dr Jyotsna GoelCentre for Budget and Governance Accountability, Delhi About the Author Shyamli Singh is Assistant Professor at the Indian Institute of Public Administration, New Delhi, India, and she is a coordinator at the Centre for Environment and Climate Change. She has a PhD in the field of environmental management and has published several textbooks, articles and monographs, as well as research papers in national and international journals. Radha Goyal is Deputy Director at the Indian Pollution Control Association, New Delhi, India. She has more than fourteen years of research experience in the field of air pollution and health, with specialisation in indoor air quality and exposure assessment. She has published several works in national and international journals. Ashish Jain is a postgraduate in the field of environmental science and is the Founder Director of the Indian Pollution Control Association. He has fifteen years of experience in solid waste management and environmental education.