Urbanizing India: Urbanization, Exclusion and Climate Challenges, 2016

India will face three related social challenges in the coming decades: Managing an inclusive and peaceful transition from rural to urban society, ensuring sustained social and economic inclusion and tackling environmental change. While often conceived of as disparate, urbanization processes are embedded in complex and interacting ethnic, religious and political contexts that shape India's inclusiveness, security, and prosperity. Environmentally induced rural resource scarcity may be driving migration to cities; new groups in densely populated urban settlements may exacerbate social tensions; and the areas most vulnerable to the effects of climate change are often informal urban and peri-urban areas. The questions were answered from a multi-disciplinary perspective using mixed methodologies, drawing upon previous project team expertise in both quantitative and qualitative research projects in India. Three separate research packages explored: (1) Urban Expansion (2) Exclusion and Inequality (3) Environmental Change.

The data are includes surveydata and replication data files for:
Wischnath, Gerdis and Halvard Buhaug. 2014. Rice or riots: On food production and conflict severity across India.
Wischnath, Gerdis and Halvard Buhaug. 2014. On climate variability and civil war in Asia.

Data are freely available for downloading.

未来数十年，印度将面临三项相互关联的社会挑战：推动包容且和平的城乡社会转型、保障可持续的社会与经济包容，以及应对环境变化。尽管城镇化进程常被视作独立割裂的议题，但其实则嵌入于复杂且相互作用的族群、宗教与政治语境之中，而这些语境正塑造着印度的包容性、安全性与繁荣程度。环境诱因导致的农村资源匮乏，可能推动人口向城市迁移；人口稠密的城市定居点中的新增群体，或加剧社会紧张局势；而受气候变化影响最脆弱的区域，往往是非正式城区及城乡结合部。本研究采用多学科视角与混合研究方法，依托项目团队过往在印度开展定量与定性研究项目的专业积累，对上述问题进行解答。本次研究涵盖三项独立的研究包：（1）城市扩张（Urban Expansion）；（2）排斥与不平等（Exclusion and Inequality）；（3）环境变化（Environmental Change）。本数据集包含以下两项研究的调查数据与复现数据文件：格迪斯·维斯纳特（Gerdis Wischnath）与哈尔瓦德·布豪格（Halvard Buhaug）. 2014. 《稻米与骚乱：印度各地粮食生产与冲突烈度研究》（Rice or riots: On food production and conflict severity across India）；格迪斯·维斯纳特（Gerdis Wischnath）与哈尔瓦德·布豪格（Halvard Buhaug）. 2014. 《气候变化与亚洲内战研究》（On climate variability and civil war in Asia）。本数据集可免费下载获取。