Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

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This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience, exploring the emerging connections, contradictions and tensions between them in cities of the Global South. The contributors use case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the institutional governance of resilience and environmentally just practice, everyday bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice, and co-produced governance. The book presents inequalities, injustices and power relationships in the multidimensionality of urban life, and approaches social capital as a key element that strengthens society's ability to react to hazards. The book questions whether existing social injustice limits the resilience of cities to natural disasters, and whether efforts to build resilient and environmentally just cities can co-produce each other.

Autorenportrait

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.

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