Justice for Resilient Development in Climate-Stressed Cities

List of contents

List of Contributors; Series Preface; Foreword I – Sheela Patel; Foreword II – Eddie Bautista Major Findings and Key Messages; 1. Framing Urban Justice with Equity, Informality, and Development in the Changing Climate; 2. Differential Exposure: Risks and Impacts by Hazard Type; 3. Differential Vulnerability: Drivers of Vulnerability and Intersectionality; 4. The State of Adaptation and Equity, Development, and Informality Interactions; 5. The State of Urban Mitigation and Equity, Development, and Informality Interactions; 6. Equitable Urban Transitions and Transformations; 7. Challenges and Future Research; 8. Conclusions; Appendix; References.

Summary

Within and across cities, this Element addresses the ubiquitous exigency of justice, informality, and equity and provides evidence of unequal distribution of climate impacts, vulnerabilities, and risks. A must-read for researchers, practitioners, policymakers, and students. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.

Product details

• Authors: Anika Nasra Haque, Sirkku Juhola, Juhola Sirkku, Heba Allah Khalil, Maria Fernanda Lemos, Shuaib Lwasa, Leila Niamir, Juan Camilo Osorio, Diana Reckien, Diana Juhola Reckien, Cristina Visconti
• Assisted by: Martha Barata (Editor of the series), Maria Dombrov (Editor of the series), Minal Pathak (Editor of the series), Cynthia Rosenzweig (Editor of the series), Aliyu Salisu Barau (Editor of the series), William Solecki (Editor of the series)
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press ELT
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Release: 30.04.2025, delayed
• EAN: 9781009587112
• ISBN: 978-1-0-0958711-2
• No. of pages: 75
• Series: Elements in Climate Change and Cities
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Art > Architecture; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Geosciences > Geology; Social sciences, law, business > Political science > Political science and political education; Climate Change, SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Meteorology & Climatology, Urban & municipal planning, Environmentally-friendly architecture & design, Environmental policy & protocols, Urban and municipal planning and policy, Environmental policy and protocols, Environmentally-friendly (‘green’) architecture and design