This book, through a bunch of systematic and analytical notes and scientific commentaries, acquaints the readers with the innovative methods of regional development, measurement of the development in regional scale, regional development models, and policy prescriptions. Conceptualizing development as a regional process is a geographer's brainchild, and the sense of region has long been rooted deeply in the fundamental research practices that geographers are accustomed to. The geographical perspective of regions entails conceptualizing them nested horizontally as the formal region and hierarchical relationships in space with spatial flows or interactions as the functional region. In geographical research, the region works as a tool by serving as a statistical unit of analysis. More importantly, however, regions serve as the fundamental spatial units of management and planning by specifying a territory or a part of it for which a certain spatial development or regulatory plan is sought. This book addresses the complex processes in different regions of the world, particularly South Asia, to perceive the regional development planning involved and the sustainable management practiced there. The book is a useful resource for socio-economic planners, policymakers, and policy researchers.

CONTENTS
Part I Sustainable Regional Development
1. Sustainable Regional Development: Environmental Practices / Marek Degórski and Boÿzena Degórska
2. Geopolitics of Sustainable Development During the Twentieth and Twenty-First Centuries / André Santos da Rocha, Guilherme Ribeiro, Leandro Dias de Oliveira, and Pablo Ibanez
3. The Transversal and Territorial Praxis of Regional Development / Marcos Aurelio Saquet and César Adrián Ramirez-Miranda
Part II South-Asian Experiences
4. Regional Development at Crossroad to Degrade the Environment: Regional Impact and Responses to Climate Change and Other Environmental Issues / L. Manawadu, M. D. K. L. Gunathilaka, and V. P. I. S. Wijeratne
5. Regional Planning Strategy for Sustainable Development in Nepal: A Critical Analysis / Pushkar K. Pradhan and Puspa Sharma
6. Dislocation and Involuntary Migration: Lessons from the Teesta River Bank Erosion in Bangladesh / Mst. Rebeka Sultana
7. Micro-Spatial Analysis of Rural Accessibility for Imbricating Regional Development: Exemplifying an Indian District / Syfujjaman Tarafder and N. C. Jana
Part III Regional Imbalance in India Revisited
8. Managing the Regional Inequalities in India with Particular Reference to the Transformation of Aspirational Districts Programme / Tanmoy Sarkar, Mukunda Mishra, and R. B. Singh
9. Understanding the Disability Divides in India: A Spatio-Temporal Analysis with District-Level Datasets / Baikunth Roy
10. How Far Gender Inequality Suppresses Human Development: Evidence from India / Raju Sarkar and C. M. Lakshmana
Part IV Urban Dimensions of Regional Development
11. Association of Morbidity Among Children with Housing, Water and Sanitation in Urban India: A Policy Perspective / S.K. Karim, Kalosona Paul, Mamta Chaudhary, and Somnath Mukherjee
12. Urban Heat Island Formation in Relation to Land Transformation: A Study on a Mining Industrial Region of West Bengal / Soumen Chatterjee and Krishnendu Gupta
13. Housing Conditions with Reference to Seepage in Different Residential Localities in Mumbai / Vidya Yadav, Arun Kumar Yadav, Rahul Mishra, and Ram Babu Bhagat
Part V Challenges and Options of Sustainable Livelihood
14. Livelihood of the Displaced: A Study on Selected Areas of Bangladeshi Immigrants in West Bengal, India / Utpal Roy and Subham Pramanick
15. Household Vulnerability of Tribal People to Climate Change in the Part of Dooars Region, West Bengal, India / Pamela Deb and Rameswar Mukherjee
16. Exploring theOptions for Sustainable Livelihood in the Indian Sunderbans: An Attempt Through Contingent Valuation Method / Nilendu Chatterjee, Bappaditya Koley, and Anindita Nath