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The city the earthquake built: internal displacement, international aid and state–society relations in the “fragile city” of Canaan Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Christopher Ward
This paper revisits the case of Canaan – a massive informal settlement that emerged in the wake of the devastating 2010 earthquake in Haiti – in order to examine the often-forgotten aftermath of international aid programming in an urban, fragile-state context. Originally categorized as an (informal) internal displacement site, Canaan continued to expand in the years following the quake, reaching an
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Making rent: how forced migrant families access private rental housing in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Hannah Sender
The private rental market is a key provider of housing to forced migrants. This paper examines qualitative data from case study research in rapidly urbanizing towns in the Biqa’ Valley, Lebanon, focusing on Syrian forced migrants’ efforts to access housing through the local private rental sector. Building on literature about landlord–tenant relations and anthropological work on kin, I argue that rental
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Self-reliance programming in urban displacement: a pragmatic approach or a disillusionment? Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-09-17 Boel McAteer, Kellie Leeson
The promotion of self-reliance for refugees is a well-established policy priority within the global refugee support regime, hosting states and for many refugee-supporting organizations. For urban refugees, there is growing recognition of needs as well as potential for self-reliance support. However, meaningful investments in and commitment to the objective of self-reliance remain insufficient and critiques
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Wetland gentrification: the African variant on ecological gentrification Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-05-24 Lewis Abedi Asante, Beverly Akomea Bonsu, Ilse Helbrecht
There is growing scholarly interest in notions of ecological gentrification – whereby environmental improvements drive up real estate prices, with the subsequent displacement of low-income residents – particularly in the global North. Drawing on an integrative review of extant literature on African urbanism, urban greenery encroachment and gentrification, this paper argues that the Western notion of
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Urban labs beyond Europe: the formation and contextualization of experimental climate governance in five Latin American cities Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Michael Roll, Florencia Almansi, Jorgelina Hardoy, Simone Gatti, Ariadne Samios, Lucas Turmena, Mariana Campos, Gorka Zubicaray
The urban lab is an experimental governance approach for the co-creation of innovative solutions to urban challenges, such as climate change. However, urban lab scholarship has overlooked lab formation as a distinct process and is almost exclusively based on European cases. Therefore, little is known about the role of context conditions for lab formation in general and beyond Europe in particular.
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The case for a climate bonus: waste pickers’ perceptions of climate change in Minas Gerais Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Sonia Maria Dias, Vanesa Castán Broto, Breno Cypriano, Ana Carolina Ogando, Juliana Gonçalves
While the work of waste pickers advances urban sustainability, there has been little focus on how climate change impacts affect them. This paper reports on a pilot study with 61 waste pickers in Minas Gerais, Brazil to understand their perspectives on climate change impacts and actions. It explores how waste pickers experience climate change impacts at home and at work, their adaptive strategies and
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Editorial: Connecting decarbonization and social justice in cities Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-04-12 Anna Walnycki, Tucker Landesman
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The proliferation of municipal green bonds in Africa and Latin America: the need for a climate justice approach Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-20 Héctor Herrera
This paper utilizes a climate justice perspective to examine municipal green bonds (MGBs), a green-labelled debt instrument issued by subnational governmental entities, such as municipalities or cities, that determines financial, social and environmental redistributions in the context of climate change. This analysis focuses on the origins and financial construction of MGBs as the “descendant” of US
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How can Africa’s urban majority reframe sustainability agendas? Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-12 Nura Ali, Margarita Garfias Royo, Kenny Cupers, George Arabbu Ndege, Jack Campbell-Clause, Jhono Bennett
Reporting from ongoing research and planning with low-income residents in Nairobi, Lagos and Johannesburg, this field note discusses infrastructure-led sustainability transitions that are in progress, probable and possible from the perspective of Africa’s politically marginalized urban majority. Its authors probe to what extent efforts to advance more sustainable urban futures in African cities can
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Distributed energy technologies, decentralizing systems and the future of African cities Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Lauren Hermanus, Liza Rose CiroliA
Within global debates, decentralization with respect to renewable electricity is positioned as pivotal in overlapping calls for decarbonization, energy access and just transitions. The promise is that technologies that are smaller and distributed will deliver a range of benefits, including enabling infrastructural innovations and expanding sustainable access, notably by empowering local authorities
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Zero Waste household practices in informal settlements: an opportunity to improve the living conditions of the urban poor and address global challenges Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-11 Anyi Milena Muñoz Chavez, LINA Marcela Cárdenas Cleves, Luis Fernando Marmolejo Rebellón
Zero Waste household practices adopted in informal settlements have facilitated the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions and contributed to income generation, food security and the strengthening of the social fabric. In four informal settlements in Santiago de Cali (Colombia), these practices were identified through participatory methodologies, and statistical tests of association between variables
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A novel approach to work towards gender-responsive urban climate policy Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2024-03-09 Gotelind Alber
In collaboration with women’s organizations in India, Indonesia, Mexico and South Africa, an approach for a novel gender assessment of urban climate policies was developed and tested. The Gender Assessment and Monitoring of Mitigation and Adaptation (GAMMA) methodology allows for an in-depth analysis of the institutional framework and the mitigation and adaptation policies of cities. Its application
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Framing ‘slums’: global policy discourses and urban inequalities Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-04-12 Sadaf Sultan Khan, Dolf Te Lintelo, Hayley Macgregor
Slums and informal settlements have long been a policy concern, particularly in post-independence cities of the global South. Although national and local governments devise public policy seeking to...
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Inequality and the social construction of urban disaster risk in multi-hazard contexts: the case of Lima, Peru and the COVID-19 pandemic Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-05 Allan Lavell, Angel Chávez Eslava, Cinthya Barros Salas, Diego Miranda Sandoval
This field note examines the disaster risk construction process in Lima, Peru. More commonly experienced hazard contexts are considered in the light of the COVID-19 pandemic. We provide an empirica...
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Sanitation citizenship: state expectations and community practices of shared toilet use and maintenance in urban India Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-27 Kathleen O’reilly, Jessica Budds
Although India declared itself “open defecation free” in 2019, critics charge that its national urban sanitation campaign, Swachh Bharat Mission–Urban (SBM-U), has failed. SBM-U provided community ...
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COVID-19 vaccine rollout: data from informal settlements in Harare, Kampala, Lilongwe and Mumbai Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Kate Lines, Stanley Dzimadzi, Edris Lubega, Patience Mudimu-Matsangaise, Vinodkumar Rao, Junior Alves Sebbanja, Happiness Zidana, Diana Mitlin
While the COVID-19 pandemic’s effect on the health of low-income urban communities in the global South has not been insignificant, the results of state responses carried out without full considerat...
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Urban fragments in the politics of infrastructure: land claims and livelihood spaces of a fishing community in Chennai Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Fathima Rayammarakkar Fasal, Swathi Manalodiparambil
The land claims of urban-dwelling communities are inextricably intertwined with livelihood and dwelling issues. These are critical, multi-layered issues in cities of the global South, given the var...
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On whose terms: utilities, enterprises or communities? The territorial political economy of water and sanitation sector reforms in Dhaka Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-16 Andri Heidler, Sharmin Khan Luies, Abul Kamal, Mahbub Ul-Alam, Christoph Lüthi, Olivier Crevoisier
Citywide inclusive sanitation (CWIS) is becoming the dominant paradigm for achieving safe sanitation for all by 2030. Its technical benefits have been explored, but the bargaining over financial an...
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Sanitation challenges in Dar es salaam: the potential of Simplified Sewerage Systems Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-09 Christopher Yap, Colin Mcfarlane, Tim Ndezi, Festo D Makoba
In the context of growing urbanization, sanitation in many cities is in acute crisis with severe social and environmental consequences. The Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of sanitation for all ...
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People move, policies don’t: discursive partition against climate-impacted dwellers in urbanizing Bangladesh Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-07 Efadul Huq, Tanzil Shafique
In Bangladesh, internal climate displacement will continue pushing millions to the urbanizing centres where migrants make homes in informal settlements. These settlements, too, are sites for climat...
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Social movements in the context of crisis: waste picker organizations as collaborative public partners in the context of the COVID-19 pandemic Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-31 Jutta Gutberlet, Adalberto Mantovani Martiniano de Azevedo, Leandro Morais, Miguel Juan Bacic, Maryellen Silva de Mesquita
Social movements are purposeful, organized groups of people addressing the creation and reproduction of inequality, rights and access issues, seeking to transform sectoral policies. In the context ...
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Why low-income people leave state housing in South Africa: progress, failure or temporary setback? Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-24 Raffael Beier
The delivery of houses for homeownership to low-income urban dwellers has been a cornerstone of post-apartheid policies fighting both land and socioeconomic inequalities in South Africa. In this co...
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Divided infrastructure: legal exclusion and water inequality in an urban slum in Mumbai, India Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-12 Maya Lubeck-Schricker, Anita Patil-Deshmukh, Sharmila L Murthy, Munni Devi Chaubey, Baliram Boomkar, Nizamuddin Shaikh, Tejal Shitole, Misha Eliasziw, Ramnath Subbaraman
Inadequate water access is central to the experience of urban inequality across low- and middle-income countries and leads to adverse health and social outcomes. Previous literature on water inequa...
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Building common understandings of urban inequalities to generate relevant solutions in Lima, Peru Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2023-01-06 Belen Desmaison, Daniel Ramírez Corzo Nicolini, Luis Rodríguez Rivero
In this article, we analyse the structural causes of inequality in Lima – beginning with a review of the historical context – to propose a multidimensional approach to urban inequality. We discuss ...
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Towards adaptive and transformative finance for urban areas? A framework to analyse the responsiveness of adaptation finance to urban challenges in the global South Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-29 Giuseppe Forino, Arabella Fraser, Neven Tandarić
Funds-based mechanisms for urban adaptation finance are still underexplored. Addressing this gap, as well as the need for greater learning about ‘how’ urban adaptation finance operates, this paper ...
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How co-production contributes to urban equality: retrospective lessons from Dar es Salaam Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Kombe Wilbard, Alphonce Gabriel Kyessi, Tatu Mtwangi Limbumba
Despite varying conceptions of what co-production entails, there is a growing consensus in research, practice and public policy discourse that co-production is a preferred strategy for leveraging r...
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Researching with care: ethical dilemmas in co-designing focus group discussions Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 YAEL PADAN, TIM NDEZI, JANE RENDELL
This paper reflects on the ethics of research and knowledge co-production aimed at addressing urban inequality. It draws on work within the Knowledge in Action for Urban Equality (KNOW) programme, ...
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Hybrid insurgent citizenship: intertwined pathways to urban equality in Rio de Janeiro Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Thaisa Comelli
This paper contributes to critical and Southern urban studies by discussing how the notion of hybridity is useful to understand contemporary modes of politics rooted in equality pursuits and crafte...
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Street vending, vulnerability and exclusion during the COVID-19 pandemic: the case of Cali, Colombia Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Lina Martínez, Graeme Young
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a profound effect on livelihoods everywhere, but especially in the informal economy where crucial forms of protection and security are often absent. A detailed underst...
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Towards a cooperative urbanism? An alternative conceptualization of urban development for Johannesburg’s mining belt Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Lindsay Blair Howe
This paper explores the multidimensional aspects of inequality that shape urban areas and imagines an alternative future for one such space in Johannesburg, South Africa. It builds on literature fr...
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Co-producing knowledge to address disaster risks in informal settlements in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: pathways toward urban equality? Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-10-11 Cassidy Johnson, Emmanuel Osuteye, Tim Ndezi, Festo Makoba
In Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, small-scale and everyday disasters are a manifestation of the multidimensional inequalities faced by residents of informal settlements. The co-production of knowledge ab...
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Crafting urban equality through grassroots critical pedagogies: weave, sentipensar, mobilize, reverberate, emancipate Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-05 Adriana Allen, Julia Wesely, Paola Blanes, Florencia Brandolini, Mariana Enet, Rodrigo Faria G Iacovini, Rosario Fassina, Bahiá Flores Pacheco, Graciela Medina, Alejandro Muniz, Soledad Pérez, Silsa Pineda, Marilyn Reina, Luz Amparo Sánchez Medina, Juan Xavier
How do ordinary citizens, activists and urban practitioners learn to become agents of change for a socially just habitat? The paper explores this question through the experiences of eight grassroot...
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Climate justice is social justice: articulating people’s rights to the city in Mumbai Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-30 Paroma Wagle, Kavita Philip
Mumbai, India’s most populous city, faces rising temperatures, flooding, and pollution. Climate change is an urgent concern, yet strong disagreements divide the city’s population on the nature of a...
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Rethinking planning education for urban equality: higher education as a site for change Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-29 Neha Sami, Ruchika Lall, Geetika Anand, Shriya Anand
This paper describes the challenges facing urban planning higher education institutions in the global South that engage with knowledge production, education and training and the ways they are tackl...
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The “slow anatomy of change”: urban knowledge trajectories towards an inclusive settlement upgrading agenda in Freetown, Sierra Leone Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-28 Joseph Macarthy, Braima Koroma, Camila Cociña, Stephanie Butcher, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
This paper examines the dominant knowledge paradigms that have underpinned planning over time in Freetown, Sierra Leone and their implications for urban equality. Looking at the history of the info...
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An evolving threat to life and livelihoods: comparing the health, economic and political implications of the first two waves of COVID-19 in Bengaluru and Patna slums Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-10 Emily Rains
How has COVID-19 affected the urban poor across cities and over time? This research note serves as a follow-up to an earlier study on the impacts of the first wave of the pandemic on informal settl...
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Can cities bounce back better from COVID-19? Reflections from emerging post-pandemic recovery plans and trade-offs Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-29 Sameh N Wahba
As cities plan for post-COVID recovery, many questions preoccupy mayors, policymakers, planners and developers. This article examines COVID-19’s impact on cities, drawing on local governments’ deve...
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Insights into relations in community-led urban interventions in the global South: civil society and co-production in Kampala Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-27 Gilbert Siame, Vanessa Watson
For many decades, civil society organisations have been instrumental in driving the development agenda in many parts of the world. In the urban global South, these organisations have championed alt...
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Exploring the views of Iranian planning professionals on children’s active involvement in urban planning Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-24 Bahar Manouchehri, Edgar A Burns, Sina Davoudi, Ayyoob Sharifi
This article explores the extent to which urban planning professionals in Iran are prepared to facilitate children’s inclusion in city decision-making. What do Iranian planners believe about the po...
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An assessment of ecosystem degradation and poverty: a case study of Obafemi-Owode local government area, Ogun State, Nigeria Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Amidu Owolabi Ayeni, Adeshina Gbenga Aborisade
Ecosystem services have continued to dwindle due to human activities, with likely implications for the dependent populations. This paper assesses the relationship between poverty and ecosystem degr...
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Interrogating park access and equity in Johannesburg, South Africa Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Samkelisiwe Khanyile, Christina Culwick Fatti
Equitable access to green spaces is essential in cities, especially those with complex socio-economic challenges. This study considers how socio-economic characteristics influence traditional park access measures, using a geographically weighted regression (GWR) to analyse park access equity in Johannesburg. The use of a spatially sensitive statistical approach enables a more nuanced analysis of equity
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Climate change and health in informal settlements: a narrative review of the health impacts of extreme weather events Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Emma Hambrecht, Rachel Tolhurst, Lana Whittaker
In this paper, we present a narrative review of primary research on the health impacts of extreme weather events in urban informal settlements published between 1990 and June 2021. We include 54 studies and examine the health impacts of extreme weather events and how these were determined. We find that these events impact health directly by causing mortality, injury and disease and through indirect
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There is no environmental health without public health: exploring the links between sanitation and waterbody health in Bengaluru, India Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Clifford Godwin Sundar Navamany, Abishek Sankara Narayan, Lisa Scholten
Over 70 per cent of India’s surface water is polluted by human excreta and other waste and less than 35 per cent of urban wastewater is treated. This poses a severe risk to public and environmental health. Urban waterbody rejuvenation in India often focuses on aesthetic improvements rather than addressing its systemic interdependencies with sanitation. This paper establishes these systemic links through
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Editorial: Nature and equity in the city Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Sarah Colenbrander
Since the COVID-19 pandemic began in January 2020, millions of people around the world have endured lockdowns. Traffic stilled, shops closed, and streets emptied in formerly bustling cities: Cape Town, Delhi, Jakarta, Melbourne, Mexico City, Milan, New York, Wuhan, and thousands more. During the long weeks and months, urban residents lucky enough to have access to green and blue space cherished it
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“Living systems infrastructure” of Kolkata: exploring co-production of urban nature using historical urban political ecology (HUPE) Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-26 Jenia Mukherjee
Capital investment-laden green blue infrastructures (GBI) are being globally celebrated as harbingers of urban resilience to address environmental risks. These technocratic designs exclude historical and micro-political processes shaping urban environments. It is within this context that exposure to social sciences frameworks remains significant. Here, I formulate and deploy historical urban political
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Area-based approaches and urban recovery in the Pacific: lessons from Fiji, Solomon Islands and Vanuatu Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-10 Meg Keen, David Sanderson, Kira Osborne, Roshika Deo, Janet Faith, Anouk Ride
Flooding events are set to worsen in rapidly urbanising Pacific Islands.(1) Most Pacific Island cities and towns are in low-lying areas vulnerable to more severe tropical cyclones and rising sea levels. Approaches to disaster response and recovery need to improve. This article uses four principles drawn from area-based approaches (ABAs) – people-centred responses, adaptive processes, multi-sector collaboration
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COVID-19 in real time: comparing the struggle of three low-income neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Michael Cohen, Margarita Gutman, Matias Ruiz Díaz, María Belén Fodde, Cecilia Cabrera, Bárbara Mora Doldan, Carolina Díaz
This article seeks to explain why some popular neighbourhoods in Buenos Aires have responded more effectively than others to COVID-19. It compares actions that took place between March and October 2020 in the neighbourhoods of Villa 20, Villa 15 and Villa 1-11-14. We analyse public policies carried out by government agencies, especially the Instituto de Vivienda de la Ciudad (IVC) and the Ministerio
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Citizen participation in multiscale planning: the case of “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan” in the Rosario Metropolitan Area, Argentina (2016–2020) Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-27 Cecilia Galimberti
One of the greatest challenges of contemporary planning lies in expanding the strategies and mechanisms of citizen participation in the different scales involved in urban-territorial transformation. In this context, this fieldnote explores the programme “26 Local Strategies: A Metropolitan Plan”, developed in the Rosario Metropolitan Area (AMR), Argentina, by the Rosario Metropolitan Coordination Entity
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A threat to life and livelihoods: examining the effects of the first wave of COVID-19 on health and wellbeing in Bengaluru and Patna slums Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-19 Harlan Downs-Tepper, Anirudh Krishna, Emily Rains
Taking advantage of our existing dataset of 6,721 slum households in two Indian cities, we undertook six rounds of follow-up phone interviews on the impact of COVID-19 between July and November 2020 with three key informants in each of 40 diverse slums. These cities showed contrasting health effects resulting from the first major wave of the COVID-19 pandemic – no deaths and nearly no illnesses were
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How does community-managed infrastructure scale up from rural to urban? An example of co-production in community water projects in Northern Pakistan Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Matt Birkinshaw, Anna Grieser, Jeff Tan
This paper examines the role of participation, co-production and community management in a random sample of 50 rural and urban water systems under the Water and Sanitation Extension Programme (WASEP) in Gilgit-Baltistan, Pakistan. It looks at the role of an NGO (the Aga Khan Agency for Habitat) in co-production, and how this model of community-based water management (CBWM) contributes to the discussion
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Editorial: Citizen participation in planning: from the neighbourhood to the city Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-09-14 Diana Mitlin
This special issue focuses on scaling up the participation of residents and their associations in planning processes. The need to consider this aspect of participation has long been recognized; indeed, the capacity to go to scale is increasingly seen as essential to successful development initiatives. What is equally well recognized is the failure of multiple efforts to respond adequately to this need
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The value of participatory urban policy councils: engaging actors through policy communities Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-25 Ana Paula Pimentel Walker, Abigail Friendly
Despite considerable literature exploring Brazil’s participatory management, less academic attention focuses on Brazil’s public policy councils (conselhos gestores de políticas públicas), which are permanent political-institutional structures on a range of policy issues mediating between society and the state. This article analyses urban policy councils in Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul State, and
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Rights, justice and climate resilience: lessons from fieldwork in urban Southeast Asia Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-08-22 Rebecca Mcmillan, Joanna Kocsis, Amrita Daniere
Recent transformative resilience research calls for urban climate interventions that better meet the needs of low-income and other marginalized groups. Such initiatives, it is suggested, must move beyond technocratic and superficial solutions to address the systems and structures that create climate vulnerability. While these are important theoretical developments, there is still much to be learned
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Contributions of participatory budgeting to climate change adaptation and mitigation: current local practices across the world and lessons from the field Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-29 Yves Cabannes
This paper explores the extent to which participatory budgeting (PB) contributes to climate change adaptation and mitigation, based on an analysis of initiatives from 15 cities and regions in the global South and North. PB contributions are far from marginal, with significant investments decided by local people. The paper highlights some of the numerous innovations introduced to integrate PB into climate
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Situated perspectives on the city: a reflection on scaling participation through design Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-21 Beatrice De Carli, Alexandre Apsan Frediani
This article explores the relationship between design methodologies and the scaling of participation in cities. The article recognizes that the scaling of community-led informal settlement upgrading is a central concern in the broader debate on scaling participation, and it interrogates the potential contribution of design methodologies in connecting localized, community-led upgrading initiatives outwards
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Limits to and opportunities for scaling participation: lessons from three city-wide urban poor networks in Dhaka, Bangladesh Environment and Urbanization (IF 2.0) Pub Date : 2021-07-09 Sally Cawood
In Dhaka, three urban poor networks play a central role in advocating for the rights and entitlements of low-income settlement residents. Despite their numerous achievements, this article outlines how attempts to scale participation via these networks are limited by three overlapping state–civil society processes: (1) the politicization and increased monitoring of non-governmental organizations (NGOs);