The 21stEuropean Conference on Modern South Asian Studies (ECMSAS) is scheduled for July 26-29 2010 at the University of Bonn (Germany). As part of the conference a Coordinated Session focusing on Human Health in Urban & Peri-Urban South Asia is being organized to highlight the examination of human health to provide a powerful lens into the social, economic, political, cultural and ecological transformations of rapidly urbanizing societies in South Asia. The coordinated session proposes two sessions. With the first session focused on urban health patterns and urban health systems in South Asia. The second session explores the relation of peri-urban dynamics and health. Shifting environmental burdens in the name of cleaning cities, changing land use practices, poor regulatory authorities, industrialization, market forces and demographic pressures have placed enormous stress on water resources in peri-urban societies of Asia. The Session is inviting papers reflecting the current situation, focused on identifying the linkage between several underlying conditions & their contribution to water transmitted diseases in peri-urban areas. These regions are characterized by unplanned activities, intense pollution, poor water supply and sanitation. The papers in this session will examine the causes of water resources degradation and its linkage with human health in peri-urban societies. In specific, it encourages papers identifying the inter-linkages between socio-economic, ecological and institutional changes contributing to water-transmitted diseases in peri-urban societies. The coordinated session welcomes theoretical, methodological and interdisciplinary papers on different aspects of urban and peri-urban health. The panel aims to provide a forum for researcher and practitioners from different disciplines to exchange state of the art research on health in urban and peri-urban South Asia. For more information regarding paper submission & general information please contact: Patrick Sakdapolrak; E-Mail: sakdapolrak@giub.uni-bonn.de
Download here: The ECMSAS Coordinated Session Call For Papers
Please note that the last date for submission of abstract is 1st December 2009