Towards Smarter Service Provision for Smart Cities: Accounting for the Social Costs of Urban Service Provision
Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Srikanth Shastry; Sahana Goswami; Indro Ray; Zeba Aziz; Sandeep Paul; Madhav Pai; Anirudh Tagat; Apurba Chatterjee | February 2018
Abstract
Considered to be the largest contributor to the growth in the world’s urban population in the coming years, India and its urbanisation process have reached a critical juncture. As one of the fastest growing countries, urbanisation is undoubtedly an opportunity and a challenge for India with huge implications for the rest of the world. One crucial issue in this respect is the provisioning of basic urban services in our cities. Through a case study of four Indian cities, this work examines the current unmanaged growth (business as usual urbanisation) and the costs associated with it. Using a social cost accounting (SCA) methodology, it estimates the market and non-market costs associated with the delivery of water, sanitation, transport and energy services. Thus the study goes beyond often discussed issues of access to services and the direct costs involved and invites attention to often ignored social and environmental costs. Each service provision is also categorized into public, private and self-provision across the three sectors and explored further. The study highlights that despite high levels of coverage in the four cities, the quantity and quality of services are inadequate in many respects, especially in the case of water and transport, and have high associated social and environmental costs.
Citation
Anil Markandya; Aarsi Sagar; Srikanth Shastry; Sahana Goswami; Indro Ray; Zeba Aziz; Sandeep Paul; Madhav Pai; Anirudh Tagat; Apurba Chatterjee. 2018. Towards Smarter Service Provision for Smart Cities: Accounting for the Social Costs of Urban Service Provision. © Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations. http://hdl.handle.net/11540/8051.Keywords
Urbanization
Urban Services
Urban Projects
Urban Problems
Urban Poverty
Urban Policy
Urban Planning
Urban Infrastructure
Urban Health
Urban Government
Urban Economic Development
Urban Development Finance
Urban Development
Urban Conditions
Urban Communities
Urban Population
Results-Based Monitoring And Evaluation
Project Evaluation & Review Technique
Project Evaluation
Program Evaluation
Performance Evaluation
Operations Evaluation
Evaluation Methods
Evaluation
Urban Plans
Urbanism
Urban agriculture
Economic Development
Rural Urban Migration
Cities
Project impact
Development projects
Program management
Performance appraisal
Project appraisal
Technology assessment
Local government
Urban renewal
Urban housing
Urban sociology
Transit systems
Rapid transit
Public transit
Mass transit
Cumulative effects assessment
Grievance procedures
Participatory monitoring and evaluation
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