Urban Poverty and Climate Change: Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America / Edition 1

by Manoj Roy, Sally Cawood, Michaela Hordijk, David Hulme

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781138860506
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	05/16/2016
Series:	Routledge Advances in Climate Change Research
Pages:	298
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)

About the Author

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.

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