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OverviewA study on urban risk and resettlement programs in the Global South in the era of climate change. Environmental changes impact everyone, but the burden is especially heavy upon the lives and livelihoods of the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents’ exposure to climate change and natural disasters, resettlement programs are becoming widespread across the Global South. Yet, while resettlement may reduce a region’s future climate-related disaster risk, it can also often increase poverty and vulnerability. This volume collates the findings from a research project that examined urban areas across the globe, including case studies from India, Uganda, Peru, Colombia, Mexico, Cambodia, and the Philippines. The book offers a unique approach to resettlement, providing an opportunity for urban planners to re-think how disaster risk management can better address the accumulation of urban risks in the era of climate change. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Cassidy Johnson , Garima Jain , Allan LavellPublisher: UCL Press Imprint: UCL Press Weight: 0.690kg ISBN: 9781787358294ISBN 10: 1787358291 Pages: 364 Publication Date: 10 June 2021 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print  This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsList of figures and tables List of contributors Introduction Cassidy Johnson, Allan Lavell and Garima Jain Part I: Framing the issues 1. Resettlement and relocation: an approach to understanding failure and guiding success Allan Lavell 2. Re-settling, re-enabling, the challenge of reconstructing a human habitat Anne-Catherine Chardon 3. How do relocation decisions and implementation impact risk outcomes? Raising questions after learning from India Garima Jain Part II: Understanding and interpreting risk 4. Risk as a subjective concept and its influence on decision-making Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, Vineetha Nalla and José Delfin Cáceres-Martínez 5. A risk assessment framework for decision making that transcends economic valuation: understanding why people choose to stay in disaster-risk prone areas Shuaib Lwasa, Amir Bazaz and Garima Jain 6. Resettlement in Montserrat after the volcanic crisis: A consensus on tolerable levels of risk? Emily Wilkinson Part III: Protest and power: resistance to resettlement 7. The choice of perils: understanding resistance to resettlement for urban Disaster Risk Reduction (DRR)/Climate Change Adaptation (CCA) Anthony Oliver-Smith 8. Resistance and resilience of the community of Belen, Iquitos, Peru, to resettlement Angel Wilson Chávez-Eslava Part IV: Land issues in resettlement 9. Land, property rights and risk Colin Marx 10. Climate change, land and housing induced evictions. Another round of accumulation through dispossession? Yves Cabannes 11. Relocation, expulsion and risk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Giovanna Astolfo 12. Stay or leave? How recognising self-recovery can support the agency and choice of typhoon survivors in urban Tacloban, Philippines Bill Flinn and Holly Schofield Part V: Natural resource and human occupation issues 13. Population resettlement in the Celestun River Biosphere Reserve: an opportunity for development? Elizabeth Mansilla 14. (Re)creating disasters – A case of post-disaster resettlements in Chennai Garima Jain, Chandni Singh and Teja Malladi 15. Flood risk induced relocation in urban areas: case studies of Bwaise and Natete, Kampala Teddy Kisembo Conclusion Allan Lavell, Garima Jain and Cassidy Johnson Appendix A Typology of resettlement and relocation interventions Appendix B Risk-related resettlement and relocation in urban areas Appendix C Disaster and hazard-induced urban resettlement in Latin America Appendix D Re-imagining resettlement for risk reduction in urban India Appendix E Building better to build back better: understanding value, cost, and risk in Kampala, Uganda IndexReviews'This open-access resource provides a holistic view of urban resettlement and lays a foundation for further research.' Choice 'This volume draws upon a diverse range of cases within the framework of risk and resettlement. It has a strong empirical basis and is a very accessible and valuable resource on this complex and multi-faceted topic.' Environment and Urbanization Author InformationCassidy Johnson is Professor of Urbanism and Disaster Risk Reduction at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, UCL and her academic interests are linked by a commitment to improve the quality of life and livelihoods of low-income groups living in urban areas. Garima Jain is Senior Consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore, and her research and practice focus on long-term implications of climate adaptation and risk reduction responses on people and the socio-ecological systems, and how inequities get entrenched in places in the process. Allan Lavell has been a researcher at the Latin American Social Science Faculty based in San Jose Costa Rica for the last 29 years. Trained in in urban and regional development he has specialised in disaster risk, disaster risk management and climate change risk for the last 30 years. He received the UN Sasakawa Prize in 2015 for his contributions to disaster risk management worldwide. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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