Urban Vulnerability

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Urban Vulnerability Inequality And Resilience In Indian Cities

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Author : Sanjay Jothe
language : en
Publisher: Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House
Release Date : 2025-12-10

Urban Vulnerability Inequality And Resilience In Indian Cities written by Sanjay Jothe and has been published by Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2025-12-10 with Social Science categories.

This book rigorously examines post-colonial urban life in India's Global South cities. Through intensive ethnographic fieldwork across over twenty slums in Bhopal and Indore, Sanjay Jothe uncovers the realities of those who build and sustain cities, yet remain trapped on their economic and social margins. It introduces "urban vulnerability" as a vital analytical tool. This framework captures the historical, social, and political forces - caste hierarchies, class divides, gender dynamics, migration patterns, and institutional discrimination - that forge hostile urban environments. Rather than portraying slum-dwellers as mere victims, the book celebrates their agency: everyday strategies of resilience, survival networks, and aspirations that keep cities alive from below, even amid precarity and exclusion. This theoretically sophisticated work challenges Western-centric urban theories. It demands decolonised, people-centric investigations into lived experiences, revealing how cities promise escape from rural caste burdens but often reproduce deeper inequalities. Jothe calls for radical governance reforms prioritising equity, inclusion, and sustainability over capital-driven growth. Ethnographically rich and analytically sharp, this timely intervention is essential for scholars, policymakers, activists, and students of urban studies, sociology, and social justice. It reimagines Indian cities as democratic commons, not market projects.

Urban Vulnerability And Climate Change In Africa

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Author : Stephan Pauleit
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2015-04-13

Urban Vulnerability And Climate Change In Africa written by Stephan Pauleit and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-04-13 with Science categories.

Urbanisation and climate change are among the major challenges for sustainable development in Africa. The overall aim of this book is to present innovative approaches to vulnerability analysis and for enhancing the resilience of African cities against climate change-induced risks. Locally adapted IPCC climate change scenarios, which also consider possible changes in urban population, have been developed. Innovative strategies to land use and spatial planning are proposed that seek synergies between the adaptation to climate change and the need to solve social problems. Furthermore, the book explores the role of governance in successfully coping with climate-induced risks in urban areas. The book is unique in that it combines: a top-down perspective of climate change modeling with a bottom-up perspective of vulnerability assessment; quantitative approaches from engineering sciences and qualitative approaches of the social sciences; a novel multi-risk modeling methodology; and strategic approaches to urban and green infrastructure planning with neighborhood perspectives of adaptation.

Urban Vulnerability

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Author : Christina Nomdo
language : en
Publisher: Oxfam
Release Date : 2002

Urban Vulnerability written by Christina Nomdo and has been published by Oxfam this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002 with Social Science categories.

This book aims to stimulate debate about risk reduction in urban settings and identify key issues for further advocacy. The authors propose a conceptual framework for understanding urban vulnerability and link the concept with disaster risk. · Features case studies from five countries (Malawi, Mozambique, South Africa, Zambia, and Zimbabwe), with a particular emphasis on youth, health, and the environment. · Authors examine urban-based initiatives to counter threats to urban livelihoods, ranging from insufficient food, pesticide contamination, fires, environmental hazards associated with poverty and inadequate servicing, to the social pathologies of crime. Published by Periperi Publications Cape Town (South Africa)

Risk Prevention And Control System Of Urban Public Security

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Author : Xiaoliang Liu
language : en
Publisher: Springer Nature
Release Date : 2023-08-25

Risk Prevention And Control System Of Urban Public Security written by Xiaoliang Liu and has been published by Springer Nature this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2023-08-25 with Political Science categories.

This book, with a focus on the establishment of urban public security risk prevention and control system, carries out a comprehensive review and a comparative study of its development. It provides a systematical analysis to the inevitable security issues in the process of urban development and conducts an in-depth discussion on the background of times featuring heightened security risks as well as the main sources of current urban public security risks. In addition to analyzing the inner structure and development motivations, this book further summarizes the inner mechanism for the effective operation of urban risk prevention and control system and elaborates on the reasons why grassroots governance plays a vital role throughout the whole process. Moreover, this book sheds some light on the future development of urban security risk prevention and control system. Centering on the frontiers of urban public security risk prevention and control, this book probes into the important issues in establishing an effective urban public security risk prevention and control system by combining theory and practice. As a result, it is highly recommended for scholars, government officials, and practitioners in the field of emergency management.

Environmental Management And Urban Vulnerability

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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Environmental Management And Urban Vulnerability written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Environmental management categories.

Urban Vulnerability To Disasters In Developing Societies

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Author : Enrico Louis Quarantelli
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2003

Urban Vulnerability To Disasters In Developing Societies written by Enrico Louis Quarantelli and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2003 with Disasters categories.

Environmental Management And Urban Vulnerability

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Author : Alcira Kreimer
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1992

Environmental Management And Urban Vulnerability written by Alcira Kreimer and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1992 with Business & Economics categories.

Report Of The Project East River Reduction Of Urban Vulnerability

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Author : Associated Universities, Inc
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1952

Report Of The Project East River Reduction Of Urban Vulnerability written by Associated Universities, Inc and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1952 with Civil defense categories.

The Interplay Between Urban Development Vulnerability And Risk Management

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Author : Ebru A. Gencer
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 2013-06-19

The Interplay Between Urban Development Vulnerability And Risk Management written by Ebru A. Gencer and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-06-19 with Law categories.

Natural disasters are increasingly affecting the world, taking lives unexpectedly and leaving many others injured and homeless. Moreover, disasters disrupt local, national and even global economies, instantly changing the direction of development. In the first half of 2011 alone, 108 natural disasters occurred, killing over 23 thousand people, affecting nearly 44 million others and causing more than 253 billion US dollars of economic damages (CRED 2011,1). Large urban settlements have become increasingly vulnerable to the impacts of natural disasters. The concentration of substandard infrastructure and housing, material assets, and inherent socio-economic inequalities increase vulnerability to disasters in large urban areas, especially in developing countries. The size, number, functions, and geographical distribution of large- and megacities create a special concern for disaster risk. Good urban management practices can be a powerful catalyst for reducing losses from natural disasters, while simultaneously helping to develop a sustainable environment. Yet, the existing situation indicates that sustainable planning and risk management measures are not taken into consideration or may not be put into practice for a variety of financial, political, and social reasons. This book argues that, on one hand, socio-economic disparities resulting from unsustainable urban development can increase vulnerability to natural hazards, and on the other hand, when paired with natural hazards this increased vulnerability can negatively affect urban areas, resulting in further inequality. This book will showcase this argument with theoretical reviews and quantitative analyses on the interplay between sustainable development and disaster vulnerability as well as an in-depth case study of the role of urban planning and risk management practices in creating the socio-economic and spatial vulnerabilities and predicted earthquake risk in the megacity of Istanbul.

Living Standards And Economic Vulnerability In Turkey Between 1987 And 1994

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Author : Ruslan Yemtsov
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 2001

Living Standards And Economic Vulnerability In Turkey Between 1987 And 1994 written by Ruslan Yemtsov and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2001 with categories.

Until recently, poverty was a relatively unexplored field of studies in Turkey. This is one of the first attempts outside Turkey to use household survey data from two nationally representative surveys conducted in 1987 and 1994 to get a picture of poverty and its main driving forces. The 1994 data remain until today the latest household level data available for Turkey. The paper finds that Turkey does not face a problem of absolute poverty by the standards of a developing country (in 1994 only 2.5 percent of population lived at less than 1 dollar a day at 1985 purchasing power parity). However, applying a standard that is adequate to Turkey's level of development we find that 7 percent of the population were not able to afford a minimum food basket in 1994 and 36 percent were below the threshold that included alongside minimum food requirements also essential non-food spending. There was a rather small reduction in the poverty risk in Turkey between 1987 and 1994, despite an impressive economic growth, - largely due to negative effects of the macroeconomic crisis of 1996. Poverty in Turkey affects mostly specific groups of the population. Employment and earnings opportunities are key determinants of poverty risks. The profile of poverty by labor market characteristics has remained stable in the 1987-94 period. Macroeconomic and demographic factors (falling fertility and migration from the poorest rural areas to cities) were the main driving forces behind changes in the number of poor.