Emerging Urban Environment Governance Models/Approaches

Abstract

The process of urbanisation has been the most striking global phenomenon of the twenty-first century for both developed and developing countries. The process has inevitably unveiled a series of environmental challenges and vulnerabilities due to lack of urban policies, inadequate resources and services to meet growing demands. The major concern for both developed and developing countries is how to promote urban sustainability and evolve a coping mechanism to alleviate environmental stress and disasters. But over the years, amidst barriers posed by contemporary urban challenges, pragmatic efforts are made conceiving different urban sustainable approaches and models as a framework offering effective solutions to the environmental threats and thereby improve the quality of urban life. These sustainable models are practised at different levels among varied sectors spread across the world cities including India. This study, therefore, captures such different sets of sustainable models and approaches used by the cities across the world.