PERI-URBAN ECOSYSTEMS AND URBAN RESILIENCE KNOWLEDGE COMPENDIUM OF CASE STUDIES

The resilience of most of the secondary cities in India is threatened with the decline of ecosystem services. With rapid land-use changes and an economic shift from agriculture to urban development, small-scale and marginal farmers in peri-urban areas, whose practices provide redundancy to urban food production, are on the brink of collapse. The diversity of peri-urban agriculture, including its ability to provide food in periods of floods and waterlogging, is an example of how the provisioning services of ecosystems help in developing the flexibility of hard systems. This Knowledge Compendium is a collection of case studies from different cities in India which establishes the important connect between the role of peri urban ecosystems and urban resilience.