ABSTRACT
Sustainable urbanisation with its implications for climate change and socio-economic well-being is of global concern, but the combined importance of four trends that involve religion and/or sustainable development is largely neglected in the urban policymaking across South Asia. One, since 2006, the human population in cities has overtaken that of the rural regions worldwide. The pace of urbanisation in South Asia is fraught with environmental, socio-political and health risks for people as climatic catastrophes, population explosion, the growing scale of informal and slum developments, high consumption, and volatile identity politics involving religion and space threaten to overwhelm equitable growth.
