Urban Poverty and Climate Change (eBook, PDF)

Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
Redaktion: Roy, Manoj; Hulme, David; Hordijk, Michaela; Cawood, Sally

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 298
• Erscheinungstermin: 20. April 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781317506980
• Artikelnr.: 49353274

Autorenporträt

Manoj Roy is Lecturer in Sustainability at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. Sally Cawood is a doctoral researcher at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK. Michaela Hordijk is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands. David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK.

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Urban Poverty and Climate Change -An Overview
1. Introduction: A short positioning (referring ClimUrb and Change2Sustain,
and ClimUrb International Workshop) and chapter overview
2. The lived experience of climate change impacts and adaptation in low
income settlements
Part 2: Vulnerability, Adaptation and the Built environment
3. Generations of Migrants and Natures of Slums: Distress, Vulnerability
and a Lower Middle-Class in Bengaluru, India
4. Emerging practices of community adaptation within innovative water and
climate change policies in Durban, South Africa
5. A Built Environment Perspective on Adaptation in Urban Informal
Settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh
6. Health implications of climate change for dwellers of low-income
settlements in Tanzania
Part 3: Understanding Change and Adaptation: From institutional interface
to co-production
7. Urban Livelihoods in an Era of Climate Change: Household Adaptations and
their Limitations in Dhaka, Bangladesh
8. Facing the Floods: Community Responses to increased rainfall in
Guarulhos, Brazil and Arequipa, Peru
9. From asset vulnerability to asset planning: negotiating climate change
adaptation solutions in an informal settlement in Cartagena, Colombia
10. Climate change and water scarcity: implications for the urban poor in
coastal Bangladesh
Part 4: From Learning to Knowledge, Innovation to Action
11. Innovation in the Context of Climate Change: What is happening in
India's informal economy?
12. Can asset transfer promote adaptation amongst the extreme urban poor?
Lessons from the DSK-Shiree programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh
13. Redefining Risk from Below: Political Responses to Landslide Risk
Assessments in the Informal Settlements of Bogota, Colombia
14. Mobilising Adaptation: Community Knowledge and Urban Governance
Innovations in Indore, India
Part 5: Conclusion
15. Conclusion: Re-Conceptualising Adaptation and Comparing Experiences