About the Book: Water Security in Peri-urban South Asia: Adapting to Climate
Change and Urbanization
Are our urban spaces growing thirsty by the day? What implications do unplanned
urban expansion and climate change have on judicious accessibility to water
resources among the multitudes who have made urban fringes their home in South
Asia? A significant gap exists in current studies of adaptation and
vulnerability to the vagaries of climate change that tend to focus on purely
agrarian or urban contexts.
Addressing this lack, this volume documents and analyses the experiences of this
urban periphery in three developing nations-India, Nepal, and Bangladesh-in
terms of water security and access, adaptation to