Approximately 1 billion people currently live in informal settlements, primarily urban areas low- and middle-income countries. Informal settlements are defined by poor-quality houses or shacks built outside formal laws regulations. Most lack piped water adequate provision for sanitation, drainage, public services. Many on dangerous sites because their inhabitants have a higher chance of avoiding eviction. This paper considers how to build resilience the impacts climate change settlements. It...

This paper considers who within the urban population of Latin America is most at risk from likely impacts climate change over next few decades. It also how this linked to poverty and inadequacies in city municipal governments. discusses those live or work locations (including lacking needed infrastructure); lack knowledge capacity adapt; whose homes neighbourhoods face greatest risks when occur; are least able cope with (for instance, injury, death loss property income). Adaptation cannot...

It is widely acknowledged that disaster risk reduction a development issue best addressed locally with community involvement, as an integral part of local development. Yet there are many constraints and realities complicate the attainment this ideal. This paper reviews experience in range cities, including Manizales, Colombia, which has integrated into its plan urban environmental management. The city government also established insurance programme for buildings provides coverage low-income...

This paper reflects on how the city of Manizales, Colombia, is incorporating climate change adaptation into its plans, and this can build foundations city’s long-established urban environmental policy (Biomanizales) local action plan (Bioplan) that have guided development developed disaster risk reduction policies land use plans. The success rooted in coherent, multi-level governance, including capacity to integrate reduction, adaptation, territorial planning within a holistic view includes...

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The urban lab is an experimental governance approach for the co-creation of innovative solutions to challenges, such as climate change. However, scholarship has overlooked formation a distinct process and almost exclusively based on European cases. Therefore, little known about role context conditions in general beyond Europe particular. To address these gaps, this paper inductively analyses five cities Argentina, Brazil Mexico, develops framework comparative analysis asks: What do...

Urban governments need to take actions reduce disaster risks and incorporate climate resilience into their development strategies plans. But most local governments, particularly small- medium-sized cities in the global South, lack knowledge capacity do so. This paper presents findings from a project that engaged other key stakeholders develop participatory planning process for resilient inclusive urban development. The took place three Latin American cities: Dosquebradas, Colombia; Santa...

Abstract This article describes the massive scale and range of environmental problems in Third World cities, considered terms impact mainly on human health. The first half is an overview these at different geographic scales, ranging from home workplace to city region. It also discusses interaction between city‐based production/ consumption degradation wider main identified include unsafe inadequate water supplies, provision for sanitation solid waste disposal (including toxic waste),...

As climate change impacts are felt within growing numbers of cities in low- and middle-income countries, there is interest the adaptation plans programmes put forward by city authorities. Yet face considerable constraints on this front. This paper aims to provide a better understanding these analyzing case Rosario, Argentina. The has strong coherent governance system, with commitment decentralization, transparency, accountability participation. Its long tradition urban planning evolved...

Based on the experiences of socio-urban integration Villa 20, this article suggests that upgrading processes are inherently complex and challenge traditional public policy implementation practices. The case presented demonstrates that, when urban problems addressed through citizen participation, they contribute to improving governance, providing comprehensive responses, may ensure long-term sustainability introduced changes. Incorporating a climate resilience lens into informal settlements...

This paper is a report on one of three related case studies in Latin America and shows the progress city Chetumal, larger state which it capital (Quintana Roo), disaster response, especially with regard to cyclones. It also land use ecological planning through development certain tools, have changed approach from prohibiting action suggesting alternatives. Rather than stopping development, focus has been taking full account its impacts trying make compatible environmental protection. There...

In recent decades, informal settlement upgrading and housing deficit in Latin America has been addressed through a variety of urban programs, usually structured around physical-spatial social actions with an emphasis on the provision basic infrastructure services, improved accessibility connectivity new housing, mostly done by conventional means. general, they fail to incorporate frameworks that provide solutions strong environmental roots, such as Nature-based Solutions (NbS), Blue-Green...

Over the last 10–15 years, there has been a heated debate about ability of private companies to provide adequate water and sanitation services low-income households their neighbourhoods. There have few successful examples provision areas but it generally not proved possible replicate these. This paper considers how sparsely populated, largely unserved urban settlements might obtain full coverage formal networks under concession contract, drawing on case study Moreno municipality in Buenos...

Urban populations, economic activities and infrastructure are responsible for between 71 75% of global anthropogenic GHG emissions (Seto et al., 2014). However, often only a small fraction produced within city is under the direct control local governments, while cities vulnerable to suite negative impacts that climate change projected aggravate, many adaptation options also out reach. In these cases, other jurisdictions actors, such as national governments or private sector, may have...

This paper brings together the perceptions of three youths from Barrio San Jorge, a low-income settlement located in municipality Fernando Buenos Aires Metropolitan Area, and more technical views adult researchers working same barrio with Instituto Internacional de Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo—América Latina (IIED—AL). It highlights youth’s aspirations within context neighbourhood upgrading transformation, discusses some ideas on how best to approach work youth, addressing challenges...