Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

This book examines the relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience, exploring the emerging connections, contradictions and tensions between them in cities of the Global South. The contributors use case studies from Latin America, Africa and Asia to examine the institutional governance of resilience and environmentally just practice, everyday bottom-up attempts to achieve resilience and environmental justice, and co-produced governance. The book presents inequalities, injustices and power relationships in the multidimensionality of urban life, and approaches social capital as a key element that strengthens society's ability to react to hazards. The book questions whether existing social injustice limits the resilience of cities to natural disasters, and whether efforts to build resilient and environmentally just cities can co-produce each other.

• ISBN: 978-1-137-47353-0
• Editorial: Palgrave Macmillan
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 264
• Fecha Publicación: 11/09/2017
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés