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Rethinking urban risk and resettlement in the global South / edited by Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, and Allan Lavell.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Urban ecology (Sociology)--Developing countries.
- Urban ecology (Sociology).
- City planning--Environmental aspects--Developing countries.
- City planning.
- Land settlement--Social aspects--Developing countries.
- Land settlement.
- Relocation (Housing)--Developing countries.
- Relocation (Housing).
- Forced migration--Developing countries.
- Forced migration.
- Land settlement--Social aspects.
- City planning--Environmental aspects.
- Developing countries.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvi, 347 pages) : illustrations (colour), maps (colour
- Place of Publication:
- London : UCL Press, 2021.
- System Details:
- text file
- Contents:
- Part 1 Framing the issues p. 19
- 1 Resettlement and relocation: an approach to understanding failure and guiding success p. 21 / Allan Lavell
- 1 Resettling, re-enabling: the challenge of reconstructing a human habitat p. 34 / Anne-Catherine Chardon
- 3 How do relocation decisions and implementation impact risk outcomes? Raising questions after learning from India p. 50 / Garima Jain
- Part 2 Understanding and interpreting risk p. 75
- 4 Risk as a subjective concept and its influence on decision-making p. 77 / Cassidy Johnson and Garima Jain and Vineetha Nalla and José Delfín Cáceres-Martínez
- 5 A risk assessment framework for decision-making that transcends economic valuation: understanding why people choose to stay in disaster risk-prone areas p. 96 / Shuaib Lwasa and Amir Bazaz and Garima Jain
- 6 Resettlement in Montserrat after the volcanic crisis: a consensus on tolerable levels of risk? p. 115 / Emily Wilkinson
- Part 3 Protest and power: resistance to resettlement p. 131
- 7 The choice of perils: understanding resistance to resettlement for urban disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation p. 133 / Anthony Oliver-Smith
- 8 Resistance and resilience of the community of Belen, Iquitos, Peru, to resettlement p. 154 / Angel Wilson Chávez Eslava
- Part 4 Land issues in resettlement p. 169
- 9 Land, property rights and risk p. 173 / Colin Marx
- 10 Climate change, land and housing-induced evictions: another round of accumulation through dispossession? p. 186 / Yves Cabannes
- 11 Relocation, expulsion and risk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia p. 213 / Giovanna Astolfo
- 12 Stay or leave? The dilemma of typhoon survivors in urban Tacloban, Philippines p. 231 / Bill Flinn and Holly Schofield
- Part 5 Natural resource and human occupation issues p. 249
- 13 Population resettlement in the Ría Celestún Biosphere Reserve: an opportunity for development? p. 251 / Elizabeth Mansilla
- 14 (Re)creating disasters: a case of post-disaster resettlements in Chennai p. 269 / Garima Jain and Chandni Singh and Teja Malladi
- 15 Flood risk-induced relocation in urban areas: case studies of Bwaise and Natete, Kampala p. 290 / Teddy Kisembo.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.
- Description based on print version record.
- Other Format:
- ebook version :
- ISBN:
- 9781787358287
- 1787358283
- Publisher Number:
- 40030669359
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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