Kolkata - The Colonial City in Transition: Reflections in Geographies of Urban India (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781032072203)

Sumana Bandyopadhyay is Professor of Geography at University of Calcutta and President of Regional Science Association, India. Her research interests are in human geography and urban geography. She has co-edited five volumes under the Contemporary South Asian Studies Series in association with South Asian Democratic Federation, an EU think tank, and an independent volume on Housing Accessibility in South Asia. She has undertaken several research projects including UGC-DRS, World Bank short-term consultancy and collaborative research with UKERI (Newton Fund), Deakin University, Habitat University, and has been invited to join the InteRAI Fellows Network towards modification of InteRAI MH tools for the Indian context. As RSA President, she organises international events, creating platforms for young researchers to build research networks and pursue collaborative learning. She worked as Member, Council at Large of the RSA International and presently is member of the Council of Pacific Regional Science Organisation (PRSCO). She is on the Editorial Boards of Regional Science Policy and Practice, Asian Journal of Regional Science and the Geographical Review of India, and is Life Fellow of the Indian Society for Ecological Economics, Regional Science Association India, Institute of Indian Geographers, and Member of The Regional Science Academy.