Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South. This item is unavailable.Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South

A 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.
 

Cassidy Johnson is professor of urbanism and disaster risk reduction at the Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London.

Garima Jain is a senior consultant at the Indian Institute for Human Settlements in Bangalore.

Allan Lavell has been a researcher at the Latin American Social Science Faculty based in San Jose Costa Rica for the last 29 years. He received the UN Sasakawa Prize in 2015 for his contributions to disaster risk management worldwide.