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Urban Poverty and Climate Change Life in the slums of Asia, Africa and Latin America

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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...

Beschreibung

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.

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum

03.01.2018
Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Herausgeber Manoj Roy + weitere

Produktdetails

Einband

Taschenbuch
Erscheinungsdatum

03.01.2018
Abbildungen

schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss, Zeichnungen, schwarz-weiss, Tabellen, schwarz-weiss
Herausgeber
Verlag Taylor and Francis
Seitenzahl

300
Maße (L/B/H)

23,4/15,6/1,6 cm
Gewicht

422 g
Sprache

Englisch
ISBN

978-0-8153-6448-1
Herstelleradresse

Libri GmbH
Europaallee 1
36244 Bad Hersfeld
DE

Email: gpsr@libri.de

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  • Produktbild: Urban Poverty and Climate Change

  • 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