Processes of peri-urban resource – livelihood transitions: Glimpses from the periphery of greater Mumbai city, India

K.G. Sreeja, C.G. Madhusoodhanan and T.I. Eldho

Land Use Policy, 2017, vol. 69, issue C, 49-55

Abstract: The villages in the peripheries of a growing and aspiring city like Greater Mumbai, India very often become natural resource repositories of the city, sources of unskilled and temporary labour and investment spaces where the affluent city dweller’s rustic dreams seek expression. The lives, livelihoods and rights over resources of the inhabitants of these spaces are transforming in complex ways that result in nascent conflicts, coerced/ill-informed consents and new forms of inequities in the absence of a strong, decentralised resource governance system. This paper is a viewpoint on these processes at work in the peri-urban villages in the context of growing urbanisation in India. The present governance structure of the villages are observed to be ill-equipped to deal with the growing resource competition and rapid changes that result when a village becomes a peri-urban space.

Keywords: Peri-urban; Resource transition; Livelihoods; Conflicts; Mumbai; India (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2017
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DOI: 10.1016/j.landusepol.2017.09.008

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