Built-in resilience
Learning from grassroots coping strategies for climate variability
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 12242545 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Huraera Jabeen (0000-0002-8633-7944, BRAC University, corresponding author), Cassidy Johnson (0000-0002-6080-6458, Development Planning Unit, University College London,, corresponding author), Adriana Allen (0000-0001-6215-5962, MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development (ESD) at the Development Planning Unit (DPU), UCL, London, a.allen@ ucl.ac.uk) |
| Year | 2010 |
| Volume | 22 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 415-431 |
| Publication date | 2010-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Environment and Urbanization (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0956-2478 • E-ISSN: 1746-0301 |
| Publisher | SAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1177/0956247810379937 |
| OpenAlex | W2111780192 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 69 |
| References cited | 10 |
Significant lessons can be drawn from grassroots experiences of coping with extreme weather for reducing the vulnerability of the urban poor to climate change. This paper examines the household and community coping strategies used by low-income households living in Korail, the largest informal settlement in Dhaka. This includes how they use physical, economic and social means to reduce risk, reduce losses and facilitate recovery from flooding and high temperatures, and shows how grassroots adaptation differs according to the level of risk from flooding. The paper also discusses how local planning and governance mechanisms aimed at adaptation can support these coping strategies, including mainstreaming them into adaptation plans that can be scaled up to the citywide level
Business · Climate change · Climate change adaptation · Community resilience · Computer security · Coping (psychology · Corporate governance · Environmental planning · Flooding (psychology · Geography · Grassroots · Mainstreaming · Political science · Politics · Redundancy (engineering · Vulnerability (computing · Disaster Management and Resilience · Engineering · Flood Risk Assessment and Management · Psychology · Urban and Rural Development Challenges
Climate Change, Adaptation, and Formal Education
Adaptability of the Built Environment of Informal Settlements to Increase Climate Resilience in Dhaka‚ Bangladesh
Determinants of flood risk mitigation strategies at household level
Moving towards inclusive urban adaptation
The role of institutions in the transformation of coping capacity to sustainable adaptive capacity
Khulna
Understanding resilience capitals, agency and habitus in household experiences of water scarcity, floods and fire in marginalized settlements in the Cape Flats, South Africa
Climate change governance for urban resilience for Indonesia
Building urban flood resilience through institutional adaptive capacity
Assessing levels of migrant-friendliness in the context of vulnerability to climate variability, change and environmental hazard
Local knowledge and practice in disaster relief
Livelihood assets, mutual support and disaster resilience in coastal Bangladesh
A multidimensional model for cyclone vulnerability assessment of urban slum dwellers in India
Exploring co-production in redirecting climate urbanism
Perceived differential vulnerability and climate change-related hazards in informal settlements in Accra, Ghana
Transcending existing paradigms
Mobilizing the social infrastructure of informal settlements in infectious disease response – The case of Ebola Virus Disease in West Africa
Individual, communal and institutional responses to climate change by low-income households in Khulna, Bangladesh
A Quick-Scan Methodology Incorporating Local Knowledge for Climate Risk and Vulnerability Assessments Applied in Kampala
Adaptive governance and managing resilience to natural hazards
Effects of Informal Settlement Upgrading in Kabul City, Afghanistan
Unruly waters
Responses to Climate Variability in Urban Poor Communities in Pietermaritzburg, KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa
Gendered space and climate resilience in informal settlements in Khulna City, Bangladesh
Testing a rapid climate change adaptation assessment for water and sanitation providers in informal settlements in three cities in sub-Saharan Africa
Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh
Moving beyond short-term coping and adaptation
Environmental change and the livelihood resilience of coffee farmers in Jamaica
Complementing institutional with localised strategies for climate change adaptation
Whose resilience matters? Like-for-like comparison of objective and subjective evaluations of resilience
The Role of Formal and Informal Insurance Mechanisms for Reducing Urban Disaster Risk
Building Resilience to Climate Change in Informal Settlements
Understanding the Operational Concept of a Flood-Resilient Urban Community in Jakarta, Indonesia, from the Perspectives of Disaster Risk Reduction, Climate Change Adaptation and Development Agencies
Disaster management and climate change adaptation
Contested causes of flooding in poor urban areas in Accra, Ghana
Adaptation to climate change as resilience for urban extreme poor
A review of everyday urban adaptations
A historiograph of slum governance
Advancing a slum–circular economy model for sustainability transition in cities of the Global South
Tenure security, housing quality and energy (in)justice in Dhaka’s slums
How can urban centers adapt to climate change with ineffective or unrepresentative local governments
How does the UNFCCC enable multi-level learning for the governance of adaptation
What motivates urban dwellers to adapt to climate-driven water insecurity? An empirical study from Lima, Peru
Slow, small and shared voluntary relocations
Adaptation to Flooding in Urban Areas
Local level climate justice? Adaptation finance and vulnerability reduction
Alleviating barriers to urban climate change adaptation through international cooperation
Autonomous adaptation to global environmental change in peri-urban settlements
From state agencies to ordinary citizens
Contrasting adaptation responses by squatters and low-income tenants in Khulna, Bangladesh
Local and participatory approaches to building resilience in informal settlements in Uganda
Integrated Adaptation Tipping Points (Iatps) for urban flood resilience
Localized flooding and autonomous adaptation in peri-urban Bangkok
Confronting chronic shocks
Dhaka, Bangladesh
The problem of community resilience in two flooded cities
Fluid engagements
The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation
Flood experience and risk predictability paradox of households
Cooling as social practice
A comparative analysis on flood risk assessment and management performances between Beijing and Munich
A Rising Tide in Bangladesh
Exploring urban verticality during the 2011 flood in Bangkok, Thailand
Vulnerabilities and displacements
Can Socio‐Economic Household‐Level Variables Explain Slum Dwellers' Adaptation to Cyclones? A Case Study of India's First Smart City Bhubaneswar
The Impact of the Pandemic on Poor Urban Neighborhoods
Poor People's Survival Strategies
The Role of 'Persistent Resilience' within Everyday Life and Polity
Floods' of migrants, flows of care
The rising tide
Vulnerabilities and responses to climate change for Dhaka
Flood risk in unplanned settlements in Lusaka
Bridging the gaps
Adapting to climate change
Unjust waters
Institutional Capacity, Climate Change Adaptation and the Urban Poor
Flooding, vulnerability and coping strategies
Disaster risk, climate change and international development
Reducing hazard vulnerability
| Unique citing works | 69 |
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| Citations per year | 4,6 |
| Citation span | 2011 - 2026 (16) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 68 |