REGIONAL STRATEGIES FOR SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT IN NEPAL
2009
This book of Dr. Joshi is a comprehensive work on regional strategies that should be followed to make development more sustainable in Nepal. It shows how space and environment should be considered in the preparation of sectoral policies. It describes regional and sustainable development strategies; and shows how these can be applied for making sectoral plans more effective. It describes the urbanization process in Nepal. It presents a growth centre strategy for Nepal; and describes national urban system for organizing the national space based on the proposed strategy. It explains the role of cities and towns of different hierarchy. It shows how rural urban linkage potentials should be harnessed to ensure balanced development of urban and rural settlements. It deals with governance at different levels.
Dr. Joshi elaborates the underlying concepts of linkage centers; and shows how investments should be allocated to key sectors of different regions. He shows how strategic activities should be identified in different regions. He puts forward the concept of city regions and resource regions for pursuing the goals of sustainable development. The model he suggested has 15 planning regions. He argues that the federal structure of Nepal should be guided by the concept of such regions. He has used the principle of regional planning to elaborate the role of federal government.