Urban Transformations & Regional Resilience | Virtual Lecture Series
Urbanization, Peri-urbanization & Water in India - Tales From Six Villages
Carsten Butsch
March 3, 2021 | 12:00 - 1:30 PM (EST)
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Urbanisation is transforming especially the areas surrounding cities – the peri-urban areas. Showing examples from an ongoing research project it will be demonstrated how urbanisation affects village structures and especially the relation between water and societies. The presentation will start with a brief introduction of urbanisation processes in the so called Global South and in India specifically. Then peri-urban spaces as specific zones in transition will be conceptualized before empirical findings on water and water based livelihoods in six peri-urban villages in the metropolitan areas of Pune, Hyderabad and Kolkata will be presented.
Carsten Butsch is a senior researcher at the University of Cologne. For 14 years he has been working in the field of urban health, starting with his PhD research on access to health care in Pune, India. His continuous work in interdisciplinary projects focuses on issues related to urban health in India (access to healthcare, health monitoring), (mega-)urban risks (India and Indonesia) and peri-urbanisation. In his major post-doctoral research (habilitation), he worked on the transnational networks, practices and identities of Indian migrants in Germany. Currently, he is principal investigator in a project analyzing peri-urban transformations in three Indian megacities: Pune, Kolkata and Hyderabad.
Carsten Butsch is the speaker of the study groups on “Medical and Health Geography” and “South Asia” of the German Geographic Society, he is member of the board of the “Association for geography at universities and research organizations in German speaking countries” (VGDH) and member of the Commission on research on pandemics of the German Research Foundation (DFG).