V S Saravanan
Biographic Data
| ID | 6330555 |
|---|---|
| NAME | V S Saravanan |
| GIVEN NAMES | V S |
| FAMILY NAME | Saravanan |
| SIGNATURE | SARAVANAN V S |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Bonn |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-7448-1930 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 9 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Multi-risks attributed to climate change and urbanization in East Africa
This study analyzed research on East Africa, multiple risks and Climate Change using bibliometric analysis. The main findings are that for many countries in East Africa, studies are absent, even on single risk assessments. Overall, multi-risk assessments that analyze hazard and impact chains are missing. Only a few cities have received scientific attention at the city level. The findings can help scientists as well as policymakers identify resear…
The dichotomous world of sanitation management
Health Risk in Urbanizing Regions
Worldwide, development agencies have increased their investments in water supply and sanitation as a "powerful preventive medicine" to address infectious diseases. These interventions have focused on on-site technical interventions or social engineering approaches, emulating the result-based targets of the development goals. Against this backdrop, the study examines the following research question: What is the role of socio-cultural backgrounds, …
Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta
Contestation and negotiation of urban health in India
Urbanization and human health in urban India
Diseases are rapidly urbanizing. Ageing infrastructures, high levels of inequality, poor urban governance, rapidly growing economies and highly dense and mobile populations all create environments rife for water-borne diseases. This article analyzes the role of institutions as crosscutting entities among a myriad of factors that breed water-borne diseases in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It applies 'path dependency' and a 'rational choice' perspe…
Metabolized‐Water Breeding Diseases in Urban India
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and sociopolitical issues associated with the flow of water. However, there is a dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure, as a hybrid of social and material construct, facilitates disease emergence. The article brings together urban metabolism, political ecology, and anthropological studies to examine the social construction and reconstruction of the material fl…
Agents of institutional change
Managing tank cascades in Southern India
While there is growing consensus within the international development circles that sustainable development should be based on local-level solutions derived from community initiatives, there is an equally growing perception that the practical implementation of what is often termed ‘community-based natural resource management’ or co-management, often falls short of expectations. This paper seeks to throw some light on issues in this area by examini…
Managing tank cascades in Southern India
While there is growing consensus within the international development circles that sustainable development should be based on local-level solutions derived from community initiatives, there is an equally growing perception that the practical implementation of what is often termed ‘community-based natural resource management’ or co-management, often falls short of expectations. This paper seeks to throw some light on issues in this area by examini…
Metabolized‐Water Breeding Diseases in Urban India
Studies on urban metabolism have provided important insights in the material and sociopolitical issues associated with the flow of water. However, there is a dearth of studies that reveal how infrastructure, as a hybrid of social and material construct, facilitates disease emergence. The article brings together urban metabolism, political ecology, and anthropological studies to examine the social construction and reconstruction of the material fl…
Agents of institutional change
Urbanization and human health in urban India
Diseases are rapidly urbanizing. Ageing infrastructures, high levels of inequality, poor urban governance, rapidly growing economies and highly dense and mobile populations all create environments rife for water-borne diseases. This article analyzes the role of institutions as crosscutting entities among a myriad of factors that breed water-borne diseases in the city of Ahmedabad, India. It applies 'path dependency' and a 'rational choice' perspe…
Biopolitics Gone to Shit? State Narratives versus Everyday Realities of Water and Sanitation in the Mekong Delta
Contestation and negotiation of urban health in India
Health Risk in Urbanizing Regions
Worldwide, development agencies have increased their investments in water supply and sanitation as a "powerful preventive medicine" to address infectious diseases. These interventions have focused on on-site technical interventions or social engineering approaches, emulating the result-based targets of the development goals. Against this backdrop, the study examines the following research question: What is the role of socio-cultural backgrounds, …
Multi-risks attributed to climate change and urbanization in East Africa
This study analyzed research on East Africa, multiple risks and Climate Change using bibliometric analysis. The main findings are that for many countries in East Africa, studies are absent, even on single risk assessments. Overall, multi-risk assessments that analyze hazard and impact chains are missing. Only a few cities have received scientific attention at the city level. The findings can help scientists as well as policymakers identify resear…
The dichotomous world of sanitation management
Geography (8 works) · Economic growth (6 works) · Economics (6 works) · Child Nutrition and Water Access (5 works) · Environmental planning (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Sociology (5 works) · Water Governance and Infrastructure (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Politics (4 works)