Beschreibung:
Sheridan Bartlett is a research associate at the Children's Environments Research Group at CUNY Graduate Center in New York, USA. She works primarily on issues of urban poverty as they affect children in low income countries, bridging the gaps between the work of child-focused agencies and the broader development context.
Preface 1. Urbanization, development and the Sustainable Development Goals 2. Understanding Risk in the Context of Urban Development: Definitions, Concepts and Pathways 3. Bangalore, India 4. Bangkok. Thailand 5. Dar es Salaam, Tanzania 6. Durban, South Africa 7. London, United Kingdom 8. Manizales, Colombia 9. Mexico City, Mexico 10. New York, United States of America 11. Rosario. Argentina 12. Cross city analysis 13. Conclusions on ways forward
This book changes our understanding of how cities can combine high quality living conditions, resilience to climate change and contributions to mitigation. It covers the potential contribution of cities to avoiding dangerous climate change and the first book with an in-depth coverage of how cities and their governments, citizens and civil society organizations can combine these different agendas, based on careful city-level analyses.