Rethinking urban risk and resettlement in the global South. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, Allan Lavell.
• Editors: Johnson, Cassidy, 1975-; Jain, Garima; Lavell, Allan Michael
• Contents: List of figures and tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements ; Introduction Cassidy Johnson, Allan Lavell and Garima Jain ; Part 1: Framing the issues ; 1. Resettlement and relocation: an approach to understanding failure and guiding success Allan Lavell ; 2. Resettling, re-enabling, the challenge of reconstructing a human habitat Anne-Catherine Chardon ; 3. How do relocation decisions and implementation impact risk outcomes? Raising questions after learning from India Garima Jain ; Part 2: Understanding and interpreting risk ; 4. Risk as a subjective concept and its influence on decision-making Cassidy Johnson, Garima Jain, Vineetha Nalla and José Delfin 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 Shuaib Lwasa, Amir Bazaz and Garima Jain ; 6. Resettlement in Montserrat after the volcanic crisis: A consensus on tolerable levels of risk? Emily Wilkinson ; Part 3: Protest and power: resistance to resettlement ; 7. The choice of perils: understanding resistance to resettlement for urban disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation Anthony Oliver-Smith ; 8. Resistance and resilience of the community of Belen, Iquitos, Peru, to resettlement Angel Wilson Chávez-Eslava ; Part 4: Land issues in resettlement ; 9. Land, property rights and risk Colin Marx ; 10. Climate change, land and housing induced evictions: another round of accumulation through dispossession? Yves Cabannes ; 11. Relocation, expulsion and risk in Phnom Penh, Cambodia Giovanna Astolfo ; 12. Stay or leave? The dilemma of typhoon survivors in urban Tacloban, Philippines Bill Flinn and Holly Schofield ; Part 5: Natural resource and human occupation issues ; 13. Population resettlement in the Celestun River Biosphere Reserve: an opportunity for development? Elizabeth Mansilla ; 14. (Re)creating disasters: a case of post-disaster resettlements in Chennai Garima Jain, Chandni Singh and Teja Malladi ; 15. Flood risk induced relocation in urban areas: case studies of Bwaise and Natete, Kampala Teddy Kisembo ; Conclusion Allan Lavell, Garima Jain and Cassidy Johnson ; Appendix A Typology of resettlement and relocation interventions ; Appendix B Risk-related resettlement and relocation in urban areas ; Appendix C Disaster and hazard-induced urban resettlement in Latin America ; Appendix D Re-imagining resettlement for risk reduction in urban India ; Appendix E Building better to build back better: understanding value, cost, and risk in Kampala, Uganda; ; Index ;
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : UCL Press
• Publication Date: 2021
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
• Subjects: 307.76091724; Urban ecology (Sociology) -- Developing countries; City planning -- Environmental aspects -- Developing countries; Land settlement -- Developing countries
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781787358317; 9781787358324
• Related ISBNs: 9781787358300; 9781787358294
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