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Bala Hyma
Adjunct Associate Professor
Geography and Environmental Management
Contact Information:
Email: bhyma(at)uwaterloo.ca
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Degrees:
Research Interests:
Professor Hyma's research focuses on sustainable development issues with special
reference to rural, urban, and gender studies; social and participatory planning and
community development; indigenous knowledge systems (focus on traditional medicine and
community forestry) a community-based resource planning; geography of disease, and health
care systems healthy cities; regional interest: south and southeast Asia, and east and
central/southern Africa.
Recent/Key Publications:
- Appqah-Opoku, S. and Hyma, B. 1999 ‘Indigenous institutions
and resource management in Ghana’ Indigenous Knowledge and Development
Monitor 7 (3), 15-17
- Armitage, D.R. and Hyma, B. 1997 'Sustainable community-based
forestry development: a policy and program framework to enhance women's
participation' Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography 18 (1), 1-19
- Barker, A. and Hyma, B. 1997 'Assessing residential environmental
health quality in a low income sites and services housing scheme in Madras'
in Contemporary Approaches to Indian Geography ed R. Akhtar (New
Delhi, India: A.P.H. Publishing Corporation) 273-304
- Gupta, A. and Hyma, B. 1995 'Towards gender-sensitive
planning for achieving locally sustainable and effect use of community drinking
and domestic water supply systems: a case study from Tengipis, Bali' in Bali: Balancing Economy, Environment and Culture ed S. Martopo and
B. Mitchell (Waterloo: University of Waterloo, Geography Department Publications
Series No. 44) 465-484
Courses Taught:
- GEOG 326: Gender, Environment and Development in the Developing World
- GEOG 332: Health, Environment and Development in the Developing World
- GEOG 426: Sustainable Development in the Developing World
- GEOG 635: Development Issues in the Third World
