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Urban Poverty and Climate Change

Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America

Manoj Roy Sally Cawood (University of Manchester, UK) Michaela Hordijk David Hulme (University of Manchester, UK)

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English
Routledge
03 January 2018
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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Imprint:   Routledge
Country of Publication:   United States
Dimensions:   Height: 234mm,  Width: 156mm, 
Weight:   453g
ISBN:   9780815364481
ISBN 10:   0815364482
Series:   Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Pages:   300
Publication Date:  
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Primary ,  A / AS level
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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

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.

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