Technocratic urban governance and the exacerbating climate change-induced livelihood precarities in Indian cities.

该项目集中处理城市、环境和宜居途径的关切，将气候变化下生计不稳定的问题与对当前城市管理做法的批判性审查联系起来。该组织特意决定关注“二线”城市的边缘化工人，这将使其能够填补在气候变化适应这一公认的全球挑战方面急需的研究空白。未来几十年，全球城市增长的大部分将是非大都市的穷人（到本世纪中叶，仅印度估计就增加了2亿多人）：以这些人的苦难经历为核心，因此，研究当前气候变化适应对他们的影响，将有助于了解途径的所有部分。

This project centrally addresses the concerns of the Cities, Environmentand Liveability Pathway, linking questions of livelihood precarity underclimate change to a critical examination of current practices of urbangovernance. Its deliberate decision to focus on marginalised workers in'2nd tier' cities will allow it to fulfil a much needed research gap in researchwithin the well-recognised global challenge of climate change adaptation.Much of global urban growth over the coming decades will be of poorerpeople in non-metropolitan cities (an estimated additional 200+ million inIndia alone by mid-century): taking these people's experiences of livelihoodprecarity as its core, and examining the effects of current climate changeadaptation on them therefore promises insights that will be of interests toall parts of the Pathway.