Pratyusha Basu
Biographic Data
| ID | 3888520 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Pratyusha Basu |
| GIVEN NAMES | Pratyusha |
| FAMILY NAME | Basu |
| SIGNATURE | BASU P |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of South Florida |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4273-139X |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 16 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 21 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 16 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2007 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Social Inequities in Urban Heat and Greenspace
Climate change and rapid urbanization currently pose major challenges for equitable development in megacities of the Global South, such as Delhi, India. This study considers how urban social inequities are distributed in terms of burdens and benefits by quantifying exposure through an urban heat risk index (UHRI), and proximity to greenspace through the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), at the ward level in Delhi. Landsat derived rem…
Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India
While air pollution levels in India are amongst the highest in the world, the link between exposure to air pollution and social disadvantages has not been systematically examined. Using a distributive environmental justice framework, this study connects fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration data derived from satellite observations, a global chemical transport model, and ground-based measurements to district level socio-demographic infor…
Hazardous industries and distributive environmental injustice in Ahmedabad, India
Urbanization in India has been characterized by declining environmental quality and increasing class and caste segregations. These trends suggest the need to analyze distributive injustices that situate environmental hazards within urban scale inequalities. Our article seeks to address this need by linking the distribution of industrial facilities classified as Major Accident Hazard (MAH) units with the distribution of socially disadvantaged grou…
Kenya's regional ambitions or China's Belt‐and‐Road ? News media representations of the Mombasa‐Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), and its construction and financing by China, exemplifies the prominence accorded to mega‐infrastructural projects in contemporary economic development, as well as the dependence this has engendered on external loans. Alongside, multiple geographies intertwine in the SGR which is both a component of China's global ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), as well as an East African regional link between coastal Kenya …
Presence and property
Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities
Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in western India, a leading industrial state that exemplifies the designation of India as an "emerging economy." We link the geographic concentration of ind…
Environmental justice in South and Southeast Asia
Environmental justice activism and scholarship in South and Southeast Asia has focused on a wide range of rural and urban issues, including struggles for access to and control of land, water, and forests by Indigenous and peasant communities, and class-based inequities in access to environmental goods and exposure to environmental harms in urban metropolises. This chapter considers some prominent struggles against environmental injustices in rura…
Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India
While rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industrial pollution, as India continues to pursue industrial development policies without sufficient regard to its adverse social impacts. This letter examin…
Connecting high school and university teachers in national and international contexts
This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the building of global teaching content in collaborative teams as a useful way to connect geography teachers acr…
Doing gender, doing geography
Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, New Delhi and Oxon, Routledge, 2011, 317 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-59802-6 (hardback) Saraswati Raju, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011, 316 pp., Rs. 725, I
Scale, Place and Social Movements
This paper focuses on the struggles being waged by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a rural social movement opposing displacement due to dams along India's Narmada River. Building a comparison between two major anti-dam struggles within the Andolan, around the Sardar Sarovar and Maheshwar dams, this study seeks to show that multi-sited social movements pursue a variety of scale and place-based strategies and this multiplicity is key to the possibiliti…
New technologies, old divides
Migrant Women and the Distribution of their Income in Hubei Province, China
Alors que les contributions des femmes chinoises à l’économie mondialisée ont été mises en valeur dans de nombreuses études, il est également important de comprendre la signification de leur travail pour les femmes elles-mêmes. Notre approche est ici de retracer la manière dont elles partagent leurs revenus entre leurs propres besoins et ceux de leur famille. Cet article se penche sur le cas des femmes migrantes travaillant dans les ateliers text…
White Counter-Revolution? India's Dairy Cooperatives in a Neoliberal Era
While the imposition of neoliberal policies by Western development institutions has been widely criticized, the ways in which such policies have found allies in the Third World have not received the same attention. This article focuses on India's cooperative dairying program in order to trace its transformation from an organization seeking to protect small-scale dairy producers against foreign dairy interests to current shifts in favor of the pri…
Success and Failure of Crossbred Cows in India
Although India's cooperative dairying program is lauded as a model of successful rural development, lack of uniformity in replication of the program across rural India has raised questions about the meanings of success. Differences between dairy cooperatives become especially apparent when crossbred cows are considered, so that the promotion of crossbreds by dairy development agencies has not always resulted in their actual adoption by farmers. T…
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India DAVID HABERMAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, BERKELEY, CA, 2006 xv + 277 PP. $26.95 PAPERBACK REVIEWED BY PRATYUSHA BASU As human-induced environmental problems take on global proportions, understanding the intersections of religion and environmentalism has become part of attempts to expand the scope of contemporary environmental debates. seeking to harness the positive as…
New technologies, old divides
Kenya's regional ambitions or China's Belt‐and‐Road ? News media representations of the Mombasa‐Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), and its construction and financing by China, exemplifies the prominence accorded to mega‐infrastructural projects in contemporary economic development, as well as the dependence this has engendered on external loans. Alongside, multiple geographies intertwine in the SGR which is both a component of China's global ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), as well as an East African regional link between coastal Kenya …
Success and Failure of Crossbred Cows in India
Although India's cooperative dairying program is lauded as a model of successful rural development, lack of uniformity in replication of the program across rural India has raised questions about the meanings of success. Differences between dairy cooperatives become especially apparent when crossbred cows are considered, so that the promotion of crossbreds by dairy development agencies has not always resulted in their actual adoption by farmers. T…
Hazardous industries and distributive environmental injustice in Ahmedabad, India
Urbanization in India has been characterized by declining environmental quality and increasing class and caste segregations. These trends suggest the need to analyze distributive injustices that situate environmental hazards within urban scale inequalities. Our article seeks to address this need by linking the distribution of industrial facilities classified as Major Accident Hazard (MAH) units with the distribution of socially disadvantaged grou…
Presence and property
Doing gender, doing geography
Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, New Delhi and Oxon, Routledge, 2011, 317 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-59802-6 (hardback) Saraswati Raju, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011, 316 pp., Rs. 725, I
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India DAVID HABERMAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, BERKELEY, CA, 2006 xv + 277 PP. $26.95 PAPERBACK REVIEWED BY PRATYUSHA BASU As human-induced environmental problems take on global proportions, understanding the intersections of religion and environmentalism has become part of attempts to expand the scope of contemporary environmental debates. seeking to harness the positive as…
River of Love in an Age of Pollution
River of Love in an Age of Pollution: The Yamuna River of Northern India DAVID HABERMAN UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA PRESS, BERKELEY, CA, 2006 xv + 277 PP. $26.95 PAPERBACK REVIEWED BY PRATYUSHA BASU As human-induced environmental problems take on global proportions, understanding the intersections of religion and environmentalism has become part of attempts to expand the scope of contemporary environmental debates. seeking to harness the positive as…
Migrant Women and the Distribution of their Income in Hubei Province, China
Alors que les contributions des femmes chinoises à l’économie mondialisée ont été mises en valeur dans de nombreuses études, il est également important de comprendre la signification de leur travail pour les femmes elles-mêmes. Notre approche est ici de retracer la manière dont elles partagent leurs revenus entre leurs propres besoins et ceux de leur famille. Cet article se penche sur le cas des femmes migrantes travaillant dans les ateliers text…
White Counter-Revolution? India's Dairy Cooperatives in a Neoliberal Era
While the imposition of neoliberal policies by Western development institutions has been widely criticized, the ways in which such policies have found allies in the Third World have not received the same attention. This article focuses on India's cooperative dairying program in order to trace its transformation from an organization seeking to protect small-scale dairy producers against foreign dairy interests to current shifts in favor of the pri…
Success and Failure of Crossbred Cows in India
Although India's cooperative dairying program is lauded as a model of successful rural development, lack of uniformity in replication of the program across rural India has raised questions about the meanings of success. Differences between dairy cooperatives become especially apparent when crossbred cows are considered, so that the promotion of crossbreds by dairy development agencies has not always resulted in their actual adoption by farmers. T…
New technologies, old divides
Doing gender, doing geography
Saraswati Raju and Kuntala Lahiri-Dutt, New Delhi and Oxon, Routledge, 2011, 317 pp., ISBN 978-0-415-59802-6 (hardback) Saraswati Raju, New Delhi, Oxford University Press, 2011, 316 pp., Rs. 725, I
Scale, Place and Social Movements
This paper focuses on the struggles being waged by the Narmada Bachao Andolan, a rural social movement opposing displacement due to dams along India's Narmada River. Building a comparison between two major anti-dam struggles within the Andolan, around the Sardar Sarovar and Maheshwar dams, this study seeks to show that multi-sited social movements pursue a variety of scale and place-based strategies and this multiplicity is key to the possibiliti…
Connecting high school and university teachers in national and international contexts
This paper focuses on the Center for Global Geography Education teaching workshop held in Bangalore, India, in March 2012 which served as a collaborative forum linking geography teachers in secondary and higher education in the USA and India. It considers the inclusion of the Advanced Placement Human Geography teachers from the USA and the building of global teaching content in collaborative teams as a useful way to connect geography teachers acr…
Environmental justice implications of industrial hazardous waste generation in India
While rising air and water pollution have become issues of widespread public concern in India, the relationship between spatial distribution of environmental pollution and social disadvantage has received less attention. This lack of attention becomes particularly relevant in the context of industrial pollution, as India continues to pursue industrial development policies without sufficient regard to its adverse social impacts. This letter examin…
Environmental justice in South and Southeast Asia
Environmental justice activism and scholarship in South and Southeast Asia has focused on a wide range of rural and urban issues, including struggles for access to and control of land, water, and forests by Indigenous and peasant communities, and class-based inequities in access to environmental goods and exposure to environmental harms in urban metropolises. This chapter considers some prominent struggles against environmental injustices in rura…
Linking Industrial Hazards and Social Inequalities
Industrial development in India has rarely been studied through the perspective of environmental justice (EJ) such that the association between industrial development and significant economic and social inequalities remains to be examined. Our article addresses this gap by focusing on Gujarat in western India, a leading industrial state that exemplifies the designation of India as an "emerging economy." We link the geographic concentration of ind…
Presence and property
Kenya's regional ambitions or China's Belt‐and‐Road ? News media representations of the Mombasa‐Nairobi Standard Gauge Railway
Kenya's Standard Gauge Railway (SGR), and its construction and financing by China, exemplifies the prominence accorded to mega‐infrastructural projects in contemporary economic development, as well as the dependence this has engendered on external loans. Alongside, multiple geographies intertwine in the SGR which is both a component of China's global ‘Belt and Road Initiative’ (BRI), as well as an East African regional link between coastal Kenya …
Social Inequities in Urban Heat and Greenspace
Climate change and rapid urbanization currently pose major challenges for equitable development in megacities of the Global South, such as Delhi, India. This study considers how urban social inequities are distributed in terms of burdens and benefits by quantifying exposure through an urban heat risk index (UHRI), and proximity to greenspace through the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI), at the ward level in Delhi. Landsat derived rem…
Air Quality and Environmental Injustice in India
While air pollution levels in India are amongst the highest in the world, the link between exposure to air pollution and social disadvantages has not been systematically examined. Using a distributive environmental justice framework, this study connects fine particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) concentration data derived from satellite observations, a global chemical transport model, and ground-based measurements to district level socio-demographic infor…
Hazardous industries and distributive environmental injustice in Ahmedabad, India
Urbanization in India has been characterized by declining environmental quality and increasing class and caste segregations. These trends suggest the need to analyze distributive injustices that situate environmental hazards within urban scale inequalities. Our article seeks to address this need by linking the distribution of industrial facilities classified as Major Accident Hazard (MAH) units with the distribution of socially disadvantaged grou…
Geography (15 works) · Political science (12 works) · Economics (11 works) · Economic growth (9 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Environmental justice (5 works) · Socioeconomics (5 works) · Agriculture (4 works) · Disadvantaged (4 works) · Ecology (4 works)