Urban Issues and Environment Challenges takes a hard look at a wide spectrum of urban and environment issues, both general and specific. Under the gamut of urban issues it examines the Fallout of Urbanization, Problems of Municipla Governance, Human Resource Development, Legislation, Resource Mobilization, Urban Services, Urban Poor and Citizen Participation. In the section on environment it analyses the issues of Global Warming, Climate Change and the Copenhagen Accord, Disaster Management and Non Conventional Energy. Some of the contents of the book were published as articles in national journals, as papers presented at national and international seminars and conferences, or as part of project assignments undertaken in India and aborad by the authors individually. Although written over the span of last few years, they have urgent relevance even today, since they depict the growing management and environmental problems confronting the cities and the institutions governing them.About the AuthorHafiza Golandaz, Ph.D. Is the Executive Director of International Leadership and Management Alliance. She has 25 years of post-doctoral, multidisciplinary experience in training, research and consultancy. For nine years, she has served as Professor and Director, Regional Center for Urban and Environmental Studies (under the auspices of Ministry of Urban Development, Goverment of India) at AILSG covering 500 municpal bodies in western India. She has numerous research publications to her credit. Her doctoral study 'Bureaucracy and Municipal Government'. A study of Surat Municipal Corporation' is considered as a pioneering contribution in the field. She is a US International Visitors' Fellow. She has served on number of international and national level task forces and committees. Government of India had appointed her as the Convener of the Human Settlements Managers' Group for preparation of the UN-Habitat-II National Plan of Action. L N P Mohanty did his Ph.D. In Political Science from Utkal University where he went on to become a Senior Reader. Later he was posted on deputation as Regional Director, All India Institute of Local Self-Government, Bhubaneswar Centre. He was also a Professor at the National Institute Habitat Management, Bhubaneswar. He was Coordinator of various training and research programmes and projects. He was a Shastri Fellow in Urban Research Project at McGill University, Montreal, Canada, he has authored several books on issues of Urban Management including Urban Development in India (1999) and slums in India (2005). He has also authored six books in Oriya language. He has bagged several literacy awards for his travel books as well as his travelogue columns in Oriya local dailies. He is a Consultant in Urban Management and is a Member of the Managing Committee of International Leadership and Management Alliance, Mumbai.