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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...

One of the major challenges of urban development has been reconciling the way cities develop with the mounting evidence of resource depletion and the negative environmental impacts of predominantly urban-based modes of production and consumption. This book aims to re-politicise the relationship between urban development, sustainability and justice, and to explore the tensions emerging under real circumstances, as well as their potential for transformative change.

For some, cities are the root of all that is unsustainable, while for others cities provide unique opportunities for...