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Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 184369722X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centres of low- and middle-income countries written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : David Satterthwaite
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 184369669X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Adapting to Climate Change in Urban Areas written by David Satterthwaite and published by IIED. This book was released on 2007 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper discusses the possibilities and constraints for adaptation to climate change in urban areas in low- and middle-income nations. These contain a third of the world's population and a large proportion of the people and economic activities most at risk from sea-level rise and from the heatwaves, storms and floods whose frequency and/or intensity climate change is likely to increase. Section I outlines both the potentials for adaptation and the constraints. Section II discusses the scale of urban change. Section III considers direct and indirect impacts of climate change on urban areas and which nations, cities and population groups are particularly at risk. This highlights how prosperous, well-governed cities could generally adapt, but most of the world's urban population lives in cities or smaller urban centres ill-equipped for adaptation. A key part of adaptation concerns infrastructure and buildings - but much of the urban population in Africa, Asia and Latin America lack the infrastructure to adapt. Most international agencies have long refused to support urban programmes, especially those that address these problems. Section IV discusses innovations by urban governments and community organizations and in financial systems that address such problems, including the relevance of recent innovations in disaster-risk reduction for adaptation. It notes how few city and national governments are taking any action on adaptation. Section V discusses how local innovation in adaptation can be encouraged and supported at national scale, and the funding needed to support this. Section VI considers the mechanisms for financing this and the larger ethical challenges that achieving adaptation raises - especially the fact that most climate-change-related urban (and rural) risks are in low-income nations with the least adaptive capacity, including many that have contributed very little to greenhouse-gas emissions.
Author :
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 184369722X
Total Pages : 50 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Towards pro-poor adaptation to climate change in the urban centres of low- and middle-income countries written by and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 50 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Stephane Hallegatte
Publisher : World Bank Publications
ISBN 13 : 1464806748
Total Pages : 224 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (648 download)
Download or read book Shock Waves written by Stephane Hallegatte and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 2015-11-23 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ending poverty and stabilizing climate change will be two unprecedented global achievements and two major steps toward sustainable development. But the two objectives cannot be considered in isolation: they need to be jointly tackled through an integrated strategy. This report brings together those two objectives and explores how they can more easily be achieved if considered together. It examines the potential impact of climate change and climate policies on poverty reduction. It also provides guidance on how to create a “win-win†? situation so that climate change policies contribute to poverty reduction and poverty-reduction policies contribute to climate change mitigation and resilience building. The key finding of the report is that climate change represents a significant obstacle to the sustained eradication of poverty, but future impacts on poverty are determined by policy choices: rapid, inclusive, and climate-informed development can prevent most short-term impacts whereas immediate pro-poor, emissions-reduction policies can drastically limit long-term ones.
Author : Sheridan Bartlett
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 184369705X
Total Pages : 81 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Climate Change and Urban Children written by Sheridan Bartlett and published by IIED. This book was released on 2008 with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Allan Cain
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697548
Total Pages : 63 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Water Service Provision for the Peri-urban Poor in Post-conflict Angola written by Allan Cain and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 63 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper is an output of the Sida, DANIDA and DFID funded project entitled: Improving urban water and sanitation provision globally, through information and action driven locally. This project was carried out by IIED and five of its partners in Angola, Argentina, Ghana, India and Pakistan. The project aims to document innovative and inspiring examples of locally-driven water and sanitation initiatives in deprived urban areas. The project provides a basis for better understanding of how to identify and build upon local initiatives that are likely to improve water and sanitation services. The project also looks at how local organisations in those countries have managed to: scale up successful projects; work collaboratively; finance water and sanitation schemes; and use information systems such as mapping to drive local action and monitor improvements.
Author : Manoj Roy
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317506979
Total Pages : 374 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (175 download)
Download or read book Urban Poverty and Climate Change written by Manoj Roy and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2016-04-20 with total page 374 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book deepens the understanding of the broader processes that shape and mediate the responses to climate change of poor urban households and communities in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Representing an important contribution to the evolution of more effective pro-poor climate change policies in urban areas by local governments, national governments and international organisations, this book is invaluable reading to students and scholars of environment and development studies.
Author : Jörg Knieling
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
ISBN 13 : 1118451716
Total Pages : 454 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (184 download)
Download or read book Climate Adaptation Governance in Cities and Regions written by Jörg Knieling and published by John Wiley & Sons. This book was released on 2016-08-01 with total page 454 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global climate change creates new challenges in particular for cities and regions. As centres of human activity they are especially vulnerable to climate change impacts. Adapting to a changing climate requires dealing with multiple uncertainties and complexity in order to allow proactive action. Therefore, cities and regions around the globe face the challenge of exploring flexible and innovative forms of governance which have to address specific local or regional vulnerabilities and build capacity to accommodate future change. This raises questions about the roles of stakeholders, the involvement of citizens, the composition and use of formal and informal instruments as well as the implementation of different forms of organization and regulation at the local and regional level. This book provides case studies from cities and regions all around the world. It analyses climate change adaptation from a perspective of organizing, administering and implementing local and regional adaptation strategies and measures. It looks into actors, actor-constellations, institutions and networks of climate adaptation. And, it provides the reader with knowledge about good practices and experiences to be transferred for solving adaptation challenges in cities and regions around the globe.
Author : Mtafu M. Z. Manda
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843698188
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Understanding Pro-poor Housing Finance in Malawi written by Mtafu M. Z. Manda and published by IIED. This book was released on 2011 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Mtafu Almiton Zeleza-Manda
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697335
Total Pages : 87 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Water and Sanitation in Urban Malawi written by Mtafu Almiton Zeleza-Manda and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 87 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : George Martine
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697769
Total Pages : 78 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Brazil's Early Urban Transition written by George Martine and published by IIED. This book was released on 2010 with total page 78 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Meera Bapat
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697246
Total Pages : 56 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Poverty Lines and Lives of the Poor written by Meera Bapat and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Cecilia Tacoli
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843698080
Total Pages : 45 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Not Only Climate Change written by Cecilia Tacoli and published by IIED. This book was released on 2011 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Marc J. Cohen
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697394
Total Pages : 39 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book The Food Price Crisis and Urban Food (in)security written by Marc J. Cohen and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 39 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Charito Basa
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697467
Total Pages : 44 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Migration, Local Development and Governance in Small Towns written by Charito Basa and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Jesper Stage
Publisher : IIED
ISBN 13 : 1843697386
Total Pages : 54 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (436 download)
Download or read book Is Urbanization Contributing to Higher Food Prices? written by Jesper Stage and published by IIED. This book was released on 2009 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The recent spike in food prices has led to a renewal of interest in agricultural issues and in the long-term drivers of food prices. Urbanization has been mentioned as one possible cause of higher food prices. In this paper we examine some of the links through which urbanization is considered to be contributing to higher food prices and conclude that in most cases urbanization is being conflated with other long-term processes, such as economic growth, population growth and environmental degradation, which can more fruitfully be seen as related but separate processes. We discuss long- and-short term factors affecting food prices, and conclude that the one important way in which urbanization in poor countries may affect food prices, at least potentially, is that it increases the number of households who depend on commercial food supplies, rather than own production, as their main source and hence are likely to hoard food if they fear future price increases. The best policy option for managing this is larger food reserves. Attempts to curb urbanization, on the other hand, would be ill advised.
Author : Bruce Frayne
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1136502025
Total Pages : 235 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (365 download)
Download or read book Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities written by Bruce Frayne and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-03-01 with total page 235 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these three, often separate foci, can be brought together to frame a holistic urban adaptation approach. Furthermore, although much has been written about climate change, limited evidence exists in southern Africa of how climate change has been integrated in urban planning. The authors explore the urban climate change nexus linking asset adaptation, climate change science and food security through several case study cities. These include Cape Town, George and Khara Hais (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Mombasa (Kenya) and Harare (Zimbabwe). The results shed light on how this nexus might be explored from different perspectives, both theoretical and practical, in order to plan for a more resilient future. Climate Change, Assets and Food Security in Southern African Cities comprises ten chapters which focus on southern African cities, with each chapter written by highly experienced academics, research-focused practitioners and professional planners. Although the book concentrates on southern African cities, the insights which are presented can be used to understand other urban centres in low and middle-income countries outside of this region and around the world.
