Urban Poverty and Climate Change

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.

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