Institutional Capacity, Climate Change Adaptation and the Urban Poor

By D. Dodman, D. Satterthwaite. 2009

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The urban poor frequently live in the most hazardous physical environments – at risk from diseases, floods, fires and landslides and vulnerable to the effects of climate change. Both the scale and extent of urban poverty and the exposure of the urban poor to disasters and climate change have increased rapidly in recent years, leading to increased vulnerability to changes in mean climate and to extreme events. However, the concentration of people and hazards in urban areas also provides distinct opportunities for reducing vulnerability and improving the quality of life of urban residents.

Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Management Science and Operations Research

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1. Don W. Brown
2. D. Dodman
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2. D. Dodman
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Citations in the corpus

• Climate change impacts, vulnerability and adaptation in Zimbabwe (2012, background): “Urban populations in low-and-middle income nations are most vulnerable and therefore likely to be disproportionately affected by the direct and indirect impacts of climate change (Dodman and Satterthwaite, 2008; Satterthwaite et al., 2007).”
• The urban informal economy, local inclusion and achieving a global green transformation (2016, background): “The challenge of finding solutions is further compounded by the range of planning and governance capacities across different urban centres, both internationally and intra-nationally (Dodman & Satterthwaite, 2008; UN-Habitat, 2009).”