Hinterland

The Chennai hinterland area includes a large watershed area, with mid-sized cities, villages and farmlands and small-medium scale industries. (This area overlaps 3 states: Tamil Nadu, Karnataka and Andhra Pradesh)


PERI-CENE FRAMEWORK

(20 questions on peri-urbanization, climate change, vulnerability, governance and synergistic pathways)

(this is an early version with details to follow )

Peri-Urban

POTENTIAL THEMES & TOPICS
OVERVIEW
Spatial patterns
  • Urban direct expansion
  • Urban / rural fringe & gradient
  • Counter-urbanization effect
  • Urban agglomeration effect
Maps & Indicators
Functional dynamics
  • Population growth & housing
  • Technology & infrastructure
  • Economy & employment
  • Real estate & markets
Maps & Indicators
Social-eco dynamics
  • Social demographics & lifestyle
  • Environment & resources
  • Policy & governance
  • Culture & ethics
Maps & Indicators
Global-local dynamics
  • Internal structures
  • external interactions
  • power dynamics
  • challenges & conflicts
Maps & Indicators

Climate Risk

POTENTIAL THEMES & TOPICS
OVERVIEW
Climate change direct effects
  • temperature
  • precipitation, storm etc
  • coastal effects
Maps & Indicators
Climate direct hazards & impacts
  • wildfire, heatwave, drought,
  • flood, storm, cyclone
  • landslide, sea incursion etc,
Maps & Indicators
Indirect hazards & nexus effects
  • water resources
  • farming & forestry
  • energy & resources
  • ecosystems & microclimates
  • critical infrastructure
Maps & Indicators
Peri-urban impacts on climate
  • CO2 emissions from energy
  • GHG emissions from land-use
  • Land-use & forestry change
  • Carbon storage
Maps & Indicators

Vulnerability

POTENTIAL THEMES & TOPICS
OVERVIEW
Physical sensitivity & capacity
  • Soil & vegetation
  • Topography & stability
  • Settlement form & structure
Maps & Indicators
Techno-economic capacity
  • technical & infrastructure
  • Markets & value effects
  • Employment & livelihoods
Maps & Indicators
Eco-social-cultural capacity
  • Affluence / deprivation
  • Education / communication
  • Cultural issues
Maps & Indicators
Governance adaptive capacity
  • Local government
  • Public services & infrastructure
  • Emergency services
  • Civil & community
Maps & Indicators

Governance

POTENTIAL THEMES & TOPICS
OVERVIEW
Adaptive governance & institutions
  • Public Sector
  • Private Sector
  • Civic Sector
  • Citizens etc
Maps & Indicators
Informal governance & livelihood
  • Informal land-use, settlements
  • Corruption & nepotism
  • Social innovation & enterprise
Maps & Indicators
System resilience & intelligence
  • Social learning & collaboration
  • Social co-creation & mobilization potential
  • System transformation potential
Maps & Indicators

Synergistics

POTENTIAL THEMES & TOPICS
OVERVIEW
Systems / syndromes (present baselines)
  • Main cross-cutting issues: e.g.
  • Airport / port cities:
  • Rural livelihoods:
  • Informal development
Maps & Indicators
Scenarios (future possibilities)
  • Critical themes: (STEEP): e.g.
  • Social cohesion declines
  • AI / IOT emerges
  • Climate change accelerates
Maps & Indicators
Synergies (future ideas, opportunities)
  • Potential ideas, connections, opportunities
Maps & Indicators
Strategies (present pathways, actions)
  • Goals, objectives, targets for ways forward.
Maps & Indicators
Chennai region overview
Chennai region overview
Heavy-industries complex along ecologically-degraded coastline and scattered towns and farmlands
population density & gravity field
population density change
Chennai: built area change
peri-urban zones
Chennai region overview
Chennai region overview
Sea level rise, increase in extreme events - storm, storm surges
mean annual temperature
Flood inundation
peri-urban water systems
Chennai region overview
Chennai region overview
urban eco-social-economic mix in some areas has growing vulnerability
waterways
road & rail networks
literacy rate
Chennai region overview
Chennai region overview
Quasi-government arrangements with industries, limited overview and regulation; mostly panchayat and local governance structures since there are many villages and small towns in this region
government & urban-rural class
Chennai region overview
Chennai region overview
opportunities for transformation - from a disrupted 'anti-eco-city-region' towards a post-industrial eco-region
Zone (d)
Chennai - hinterland
Large watershed area with mid-sized cities, villages and farmlands and small-medium scale industries
Large watershed area with mid-sized cities, villages and farmlands and small-medium scale industries
Zone (d)
Chennai - hinterland
(heat, precipitation and storm: impacts on water systems & agricultural livelihoods)
(heat, precipitation and storm: impacts on water systems & agricultural livelihoods)
Zone (d)
Chennai - hinterland
marginal livelihoods in sensitive landscapes with growing pressure of urbanization
marginal livelihoods in sensitive landscapes with growing pressure of urbanization
Zone (d)
Chennai - hinterland
fragmented local governance & civil society
Zone (d)
Chennai - hinterland
Can a new eco-social order emerge?
Commuter settlement structure increases vulnerability to climate change
social divisions & exclusions multiply up
Synergies of agri-landscape & socio-economic landscape
Integrated adaptive lowland per-urban, with regenerative adaptive agriculture & ecosystems stewardship

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