Urban poverty and climate change : life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
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Urban poverty and climate change : life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America
（Routledge advances in climate change research）
Routledge, 2017, c2016
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First published: 2016
Includes bibliographical references and index
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Description
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.
Table of Contents
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
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