Peri-urban ecosystems especially peri-urban agriculture play an important part in multiple
dimensions of both rural and urban sustainability and resilience. Yet such ecosystems on …

This paper draws on two case studies from India and China to discuss how and why rapidly
urbanizing contexts are particularly challenging for transformative innovation but are also …

In this paper, we discuss how transdisciplinary development research (TDR), if approached
in particular ways, can produce new knowledge and also foster deeper systemic changes in …

Recent years have witnessed an expanding body of peri-urban and urban scholarship.
However, recent scholarship has yet to adequately address the central role of politics and …

Urban agriculture has attracted the attention of academics, policy-makers, and practitioners
alike as a potential measure to support the food needs of growing urban populations and …

The world's urban population is expected to rise from 3.9 to 6.4 billion people between 2014
and 2050, with 90% of this increase in Asia and Africa (UN, 2014). While the impacts of …

Achieving urban water security requires sustaining the trade-offs between the exploitation of
water/environmental resources and ecosystem services. This achievement not only reduces …

Urban sprawl transforms urban–rural linkages and indiscriminately exploits natural
resources, degrading the ecosystems in peri-urban areas (PUAs). In India, the absence of a …

Abstract Urban Water Security (UWS) will remain a hugely important issue over the next
decades and is a matter that will be exacerbated by climate change and related hazards …