Presentation given by Lyla Mehta at World Water Week in Stockholm on August 21 2009, based on a case study of the STEPS Centre's project in peri-urban Delhi. For more information see: http://www.steps-centre.org/ourresearch/urbanisation,%20asia.html

2. Sustainability and the Peri-urban? Highly contested zone. Complementarities leading to opportunities but also exclusions Increasing environmental degradation and increasing marginalisation. Lack of services, lack of regulation, access deficit, Ambiguity, informality, illegality Increasing recognition of problems, but lack of approaches to manage so that rural-urban synergies can be realised and environment degradation and poverty addressed.

8. Thank You! Julia Day Harriet LeBris Synne Movik Lyla Mehta S ocial T echnological and E nvironmental P athways to S ustainability