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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.
List of contents
1. Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South: An Emerging Agenda .- 2. Top-Down, Bottom-up and Beyond: Governance Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Environmental Justice in the People's Republic of China .- 3. Planning for Mobility and Socio-environmental Justice: the Case of Medellín, Colombia .- 4. Institutional Discourses on Urban Water Poverty, Considering the Example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Reconciling Justice and Resilience? .- 5. Post-disaster Institutional and Community Responses: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental Justice and Resilience in Chaitén, Chile .- 6. Justice, Resilience and Illegality: Energy Vulnerability in Romani Settlements in Bulgaria .- 7. The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique .- 8. Pathways towards the Resilient City: Presupposition of Equality and Active Justice in Bangkok, Thailand .- 9. Adaptability of the Built Environment of Informal Settlements to Increase Climate Resilience in Dhaka, Bangladesh .- 10. The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American Cities .- 11. Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Flooding: Field Experience from the 2012 Assam Floods, India .- 12. Floods and Food in the City: Lessons from Collaborative Governance within the Policy Network on Urban Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand .- 13. Mapping the Contradictions: An Examination of the Relationship between Resilience and Environmental Justice .- 14. Energy Access as it Matters to People: Energy Landscapes in Maputo, Mozambique .- 15. Urban Resilience and Justice: Exploring the Tensions, Building upon the Connections.
About the author
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.
Summary
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.
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“The volume is distinctive amid other literature in this field in its focus on the connection of resilience to environmental justice in the Global South. … The book will be most useful to researchers in environmental justice, particularly in the developing world, but also to those interested more generally in how resilience is being approached in a global context.” (Christopher L. Atkinson,International Journal of Public Administration, April 2018)
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"The volume is distinctive amid other literature in this field in its focus on the connection of resilience to environmental justice in the Global South. ... The book will be most useful to researchers in environmental justice, particularly in the developing world, but also to those interested more generally in how resilience is being approached in a global context." (Christopher L. Atkinson,International Journal of Public Administration, April 2018)
