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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PART I Urban poverty and climate change: an overview |
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2 The lived experience of urban poverty and climate change: impacts and adaptation in slums |
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PART II Vulnerability, adaptation and the built environment |
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3 Generations of migrants and natures of slums: distress, vulnerability and a lower-middle class in Bengaluru, India |
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4 Emerging practices of community adaptation within innovative water and climate change policies in Durban, South Africa |
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5 A built environment perspective on adaptation in urban informal settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh |
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6 Health implications of climate change for dwellers of low-income settlements in Tanzania |
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PART III Understanding change and adaptation: from institutional interface to co-production |
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7 Urban livelihoods in an era of climate change: household adaptations and their limitations in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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8 Facing the floods: community responses to increased rainfall in Guarulhos, Brazil and Arequipa, Peru |
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9 From asset vulnerability to asset planning: negotiating climate change adaptation solutions in an informal settlement in Cartagena, Colombia |
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10 Climate change and water scarcity: implications for the urban poor in coastal Bangladesh |
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PART IV From learning to knowledge, innovation to action |
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11 Innovation in the context of climate change: what is happening in India's informal economy? |
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12 Can asset transfer promote adaptation amongst the extreme urban poor? Lessons from the DSK-Shiree programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh |
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13 The politics of knowledge and production of vulnerability in urban informal settlements: learning from Bogota, Colombia |
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14 Mobilising adaptation: community knowledge and urban governance innovations in Indore, India |
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15 Conclusion: reconceptualising adaptation and comparing experiences |
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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.
