Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

ISBN-13: 9781137473530 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 307 str.

Adriana Allen; Liza Griffin; Cassidy Johnson

Opis

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.

Recenzje

"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)

Spis treści

1. Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South: An Emerging Agenda

Liza Griffin, Deena Khalil, Adriana Allen and Cassidy Johnson 

Part I: The Institutional Governance of Resilience and Environmentally Just Practice

2. Top-Down, Bottom-up and Beyond: Governance Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Environmental Justice in the People’s Republic of China 

Linda Westman

3. Planning for Mobility and Socio-environmental Justice: the Case of Medellín, Colombia

Caren Levy and Julio D. Dávila

4. Institutional Discourses on Urban Water Poverty, Considering the Example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Reconciling Justice and Resilience?

Pascale Hofmann

5. Post-disaster Institutional and Community Responses: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental Justice and Resilience in Chaitén, Chile

Vicente Sandoval, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio and Cristian Albornoz

Part II: Everyday practices: informal or bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice

6. Justice, Resilience and Illegality: Energy Vulnerability in Romani Settlements in Bulgaria

Rosalina Babourkova

7. The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique

Céline F. Veríssimo

8. Pathways towards the Resilient City: Presupposition of Equality and Active Justice in Bangkok, Thailand

Camillo Boano

9. Adaptability of the Built Environment of Informal Settlements to Increase Climate Resilience in Dhaka, Bangladesh

Huraera Jabeen

Part III: Co-produced governance

10. The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American Cities

Adriana Allen, Anna Walnycki and Étienne von Bertrab 

11. Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Flooding: Field Experience from the 2012 Assam Floods, India

Sneha Krishnan and Bipul Borah

12. Floods and Food in the City: Lessons from Collaborative Governance within the Policy Network on Urban Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand

Piyapong Boossabong

13. Mapping the Contradictions: An Examination of the Relationship between Resilience and Environmental Justice

Rita Lambert and Adriana Allen

14. Energy Access as it Matters to People: Energy Landscapes in Maputo, Mozambique

Diana Salazar, Vanesa Castán Broto and Kevin M. Adams 

15. Urban Resilience and Justice: Exploring the Tensions, Building upon the Connections

Adriana Allen, Cassidy Johnson, Deena Khalil and Liza Griffin

O autorze

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. 

Blurb

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.