Joop De Wit
Biographic Data
| ID | 3696670 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Joop De Wit |
| GIVEN NAMES | Joop |
| FAMILY NAME | De Wit |
| SIGNATURE | DE WIT J |
| AFFILIATIONS | Urban Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 35 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
From victims to change agents
Asian mega-deltas face a ‘triple crisis’ of climate hazards, adverse impacts of top-down adaptation policies, and agrarian market liberalization, threatening millions of resource-based farmers. While farmers’ vulnerabilities have been extensively documented, this paper examines an emerging small-scale farmers group in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, which will be termed ‘innovative farmers’, who are shown to successfully navigate these pressures and thri…
Urban Social Movements in the Third World
Introduction Frans J. Schuurman and Ton van Naerssen 1. Urban Social Movements: Between Regressive Utopia and Socialist Panacea Frans J. Schuurman 2. Collective Organization and Action in Squatter Settlements in Arequipa, Peru Tom van Garderen, World Information Service on Energy, Amsterdam 3. Neighborhood Associations in Buenos Aires: Contradictions within Contradictions Juan Silva, CEDES, Buenos Aires 4. Clientelism, Competition and Poverty: Th…
Progressive Patronage? Municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers' Empowerment
Efforts aimed at urban poverty reduction and service delivery improvement depend critically on slum dwellers' collective agency. Adding to a long history of community participation approaches, there is a now growing incidence of so-called 'partnerships' between municipal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and slum organizations. Such approaches require a fair representation of a majority of the poor by local community-based organizat…
Capacity building for urban management
Progressive Patronage? Municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers' Empowerment
Efforts aimed at urban poverty reduction and service delivery improvement depend critically on slum dwellers' collective agency. Adding to a long history of community participation approaches, there is a now growing incidence of so-called 'partnerships' between municipal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and slum organizations. Such approaches require a fair representation of a majority of the poor by local community-based organizat…
Capacity building for urban management
Capacity building for urban management
Progressive Patronage? Municipalities, NGOs, CBOs and the Limits to Slum Dwellers' Empowerment
Efforts aimed at urban poverty reduction and service delivery improvement depend critically on slum dwellers' collective agency. Adding to a long history of community participation approaches, there is a now growing incidence of so-called 'partnerships' between municipal agencies, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and slum organizations. Such approaches require a fair representation of a majority of the poor by local community-based organizat…
Urban Social Movements in the Third World
Introduction Frans J. Schuurman and Ton van Naerssen 1. Urban Social Movements: Between Regressive Utopia and Socialist Panacea Frans J. Schuurman 2. Collective Organization and Action in Squatter Settlements in Arequipa, Peru Tom van Garderen, World Information Service on Energy, Amsterdam 3. Neighborhood Associations in Buenos Aires: Contradictions within Contradictions Juan Silva, CEDES, Buenos Aires 4. Clientelism, Competition and Poverty: Th…
From victims to change agents
Asian mega-deltas face a ‘triple crisis’ of climate hazards, adverse impacts of top-down adaptation policies, and agrarian market liberalization, threatening millions of resource-based farmers. While farmers’ vulnerabilities have been extensively documented, this paper examines an emerging small-scale farmers group in Vietnam’s Mekong Delta, which will be termed ‘innovative farmers’, who are shown to successfully navigate these pressures and thri…
Climate change (2 works) · Collective action (2 works) · Economics (2 works) · Geography (2 works) · Adaptation (eye (1 works) · Adaptive capacity (1 works) · Adaptive Management (1 works) · Agency (philosophy) (1 works) · Agricultural Systems and Practices (1 works) · Agroforestry (1 works)