Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South (eBook)

Adriana Allen, Liza Griffin, Cassidy Johnson (Herausgeber)

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2017 | 1st ed. 2017
XIX, 307 Seiten
Palgrave Macmillan US (Verlag)
978-1-137-47354-7 (ISBN)

Infos

This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways and adapt to shocks, do pervasive inequalities in access to environmental services have an effect on this ability? This book brings together an interdisciplinary and intergeneration group of scholars to examine the contradictions and tensions that develop as they play out in cities of the Global South through a series of empirically grounded case studies spanning cities of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

Adriana Allen is Professor of Urban Sustainability and Development Planning at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK, where she leads the Research Cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience. 

Liza Griffin is Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK, where she co-directs the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development. 

Cassidy Johnson is Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK. 

Inhalt

1. Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South: An Emerging AgendaLiza Griffin, Deena Khalil, Adriana Allen and Cassidy Johnson Part I: The Institutional Governance of Resilience and Environmentally Just Practice2. Top-Down, Bottom-up and Beyond: Governance Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Environmental Justice in the People’s Republic of China Linda Westman3. Planning for Mobility and Socio-environmental Justice: the Case of Medellín, ColombiaCaren Levy and Julio D. Dávila4. Institutional Discourses on Urban Water Poverty, Considering the Example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Reconciling Justice and Resilience?Pascale Hofmann5. Post-disaster Institutional and Community Responses: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental Justice and Resilience in Chaitén, ChileVicente Sandoval, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio and Cristian AlbornozPart II: Everyday practices: informal or bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice6. Justice, Resilience and Illegality: Energy Vulnerability in Romani Settlements in BulgariaRosalina Babourkova7. The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, MozambiqueCéline F. Veríssimo8. Pathways towards the Resilient City: Presupposition of Equality and Active Justice in Bangkok, ThailandCamillo Boano9. Adaptability of the Built Environment of Informal Settlements to Increase Climate Resilience in Dhaka, BangladeshHuraera JabeenPart III: Co-produced governance10. The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American CitiesAdriana Allen, Anna Walnycki and Étienne von Bertrab 11. Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Flooding: Field Experience from the 2012 Assam Floods, IndiaSneha Krishnan and Bipul Borah12. Floods and Food in the City: Lessons from Collaborative Governance within the Policy Network on Urban Agriculture in Bangkok, ThailandPiyapong Boossabong13. Mapping the Contradictions: An Examination of the Relationship between Resilience and Environmental JusticeRita Lambert and Adriana Allen14. Energy Access as it Matters to People: Energy Landscapes in Maputo, MozambiqueDiana Salazar, Vanesa Castán Broto and Kevin M. Adams 15. Urban Resilience and Justice: Exploring the Tensions, Building upon the ConnectionsAdriana Allen, Cassidy Johnson, Deena Khalil and Liza Griffin

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 5.12.2017
• Zusatzinfo: XIX, 307 p. 44 illus., 31 illus. in color.
• Verlagsort: New York
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
• Themenwelt: Recht / Steuern ► Öffentliches Recht ► Umweltrecht
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Politische Systeme
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung ► Vergleichende Politikwissenschaften
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
• Schlagworte: Cities • climate change • Emergency response systems • environmental justice • global South • Healthcare • Infrastructure • LATIN AMERICAN POLITICS • Resilience • Rule of Law • Social capital • Social Inequality • urbanization • urban poor • Urban Resilience
• ISBN-10: 1-137-47354-1 / 1137473541
• ISBN-13: 978-1-137-47354-7 / 9781137473547