Faculty of Social and Behavioural Sciences

Universiteit van Amsterdam Nieuwe Prinsengracht 130 1018 VZ Amsterdam
Tel	:	020 - 525 30 62
Fax	:	020 - 525 40 51
Email	:	amidst-fmg@uva.nl
Web	:	www.fmg.uva.nl/amidst/home.cfm

AMIDSt aims to be an international important player in the fields of metropolitan studies, spatial planning and international development studies. It sets out an institutional framework that supports interdisciplinary collaboration and integrated perspectives and facilitates top-level research in those different fields. As its staff expertise cuts across the North-South divide, AMIDSt contributes to debates on urban regional governance and public policy both in the North and in the South.

Some of the projects of AMIDSt in India are:

• Local governance, civil society and partnerships; contrasting community enablement in providing services for the urban poor: Kumasi, Ghana and Chennai, India
  
  
• Enabling strategies for environmental management in multi-million cities: an integrated economic and environmental assessment of solid waste system in Kenya and India
  
  
• Collective Local Initiatives and Government Policies in a Relocation Site in Chennai, India
  
  
• Ayurvedic Medicines in India: An Anthropological Inquiry into Medical Knowledge and Social Change