ISBN:
9781315851105
,
9781315716435
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xxiv, 274 Seiten)
Series Statement:
Routledge advances in climate change research
DDC:
304.28086942
Keywords:
Electronic books
Abstract:
Half Title -- Series Information -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables and box -- Notes on editors and contributors -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Part I Urban poverty and climate change: An overview -- 1 Introduction -- Structure of the book -- Part I: Urban poverty and climate change: an overview -- Part II: Vulnerability, adaptation and the built environment -- Part III: Understanding change and adaptation: from institutional interface to co-production -- Part IV: From learning to knowledge, innovation to action -- References
Abstract:
2 The lived experience of urban poverty and climate change: Impacts and adaptation in slums -- Introduction -- Profiling the urban poor -- Climate change's impacts on the risk bundle for the urban poor -- Nature of climate change impacts on urban poor -- Spectrum of shocks and stressors -- Framing a response to climate change -- Social learning and the co-creation of knowledge -- Resilience - transition - transformation -- Ways forward: everyday practices as a source of policy-relevant knowledge -- Notes -- References -- Part II Vulnerability, adaptation and the built environment
Abstract:
3 Generations of migrants and natures of slums: Distress, vulnerability and a lower-middle class in Bengaluru, India -- Indian slums: the bigger picture -- Broad characterisation of slums across India -- Research and methodology: first phase -- Finding and understanding first-generation migrants -- Research and methodology: second phase -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 4 Emerging practices of community adaptation within innovative water and climate change policies in Durban, South Africa -- Introduction -- Abstract constructions and everyday lived worlds
Abstract:
State policy, practice and local spaces -- The local state water and climate arena: government actors -- Citizens' responses to state-led policy and practices in the water arena -- Community ecosystem-based adaptation (CEBA) -- Conclusion -- Notes -- References -- 5 A built environment perspective on adaptation in urban informal settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh -- Introduction -- Climate change in Bangladesh -- Research and methodology -- Understanding built environment adaptation in an informal settlement in Khulna -- Adaptation in the domain of city region
Abstract:
Adaptation in the domain of settlement -- (i) Land tenure sub-domain -- (ii) Land use and spatial morphology -- (iii) Access to utilities and basic services -- Adaptation in the domain of dwelling unit -- i) Built form -- (ii) Space planning -- (iii) Construction materials and techniques -- Climate adaptation: big issues, small perspectives -- Notes -- References -- 6 Health implications of climate change for dwellers of low-income settlements in Tanzania -- Introduction -- Climate change and human health: conceptual association
Abstract:
Climate change and vector-borne disease prevalence in Tanzania: national perspective
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