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Rethinking Urban Risk and Resettlement in the Global South
Environmental changes have significant impacts on people’s lives and livelihoods, particularly the urban poor and those living in informal settlements. In an effort to reduce urban residents’ exposure to climate change and hazards such as natural disasters, resettlement programmes are becoming widespread across the Global South. While resettlement may reduce a region’s future climate-related disaster risk, it often increases poverty and vulnerability, and can be used as a reason to evict people from areas undergoing redevelopment. A collaboration between the Bartlett Development Planning Unit at UCL, the Indian Institute for Human Settlements and the Latin American Social Science Facul...
Lifelong Learning and Education in Healthy and Sustainable Cities
This book presents essential insights into lifelong learning and education in healthy and sustainable cities, providing a basis for strategies to help achieve the 2030 Agenda sustainable development and health promotion goals. The interface between environment, health and lifelong learning is fundamental to attaining these goals, and as such, the book gathers interdisciplinary reflections from researchers, educators and other experts concerning the links between environmental quality, human health, human education and well-being, and addressing inequality, unplanned urbanization, migration, lifestyles, and consumption and production patterns. Topics include: Urban planning to address inequality in health and urban poverty; Healthy cities and healthy environments; Governance for sustainable development; Social determinants of health oriented on sustainable development goals; Education and lifelong learning for sustainability; Energy security, access and efficiency; Sustainable cities, buildings and infrastructure.
The Blinded City
‘One of the best works of narrative non-fiction to emerge from the country in years. Quite simply brilliant.’ – NIREN TOLSI Amid evictions, raids, killings, the drug trade, and fire, inner-city Johannesburg residents seek safety and a home. A grandmother struggles to keep her granddaughter as she is torn away from her. A mother seeks healing in the wake of her son’s murder. And displaced by the city’s drive for urban regeneration, a group of blind migrants try to carve out an existence. The Blinded City recounts the history of inner-city Johannesburg from 2010 to 2019, primarily from the perspectives of the unlawful occupiers of spaces known as hijacked buildings, bad buildings or ...
Transgressive Citizenship and the Struggle for Social Justice
This book analyses the struggle for social justice in São Paulo, Brazil. It takes the wave of protests that began in the city in 2013 as a starting point, and grounds them in the history of social movement mobilisation in urban Brazil. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork with a federation of housing movements, this work demonstrates the ongoing relevance of the concept of the right to the city for social movements of the urban poor, and examines these movements’ creative interpretation of national legislation to support their claims for housing and urban citizenship.
The Health of Workers in Selected Sectors of the Urban Economy
Aims at analysing and systematizing the health challenges faced by the poorest strata of urban workers and to discuss solutions. Uses interviews carried out with ILO and WHO staff members from different departments and programmes, completed with interviews with professionals from other institutions, and focuses on five sectors of urban workers, namely: construction, waste picking and recycling, street trading, domestic work and agriculture.
I'm Going to Have a Little House
"Never before published in English, Carolina's second diary, written in 1960-61, describes her life in the first year after the sudden (and, as it turned out, temporary) fame of Quarto de despejo (see HLAS 25:4741). Translated faithfully into English, evo
A moradia é a base estruturante para a vida e a inclusão social da população em situação de rua
Os múltiplos testemunhos relatados estão carregados de fatos concretos, dolorosos, mas também preciosos, que somados à descrição das mudanças ocorridas na vida dessas pessoas, além de tocarem fundo o nosso pensar e sentir, alicerçam a proposta de acesso à moradia como base estruturante da vida, intimando-nos à luta por políticas habitacionais ininterruptas. (Cristina Bove) A pesquisa empírica feita com a população de rua nos surpreende porque ela vai além dos números revelando detalhes das vidas das pessoas entrevistadas. O sofrimento humano intenso salta aos olhos. Encontramos aqui personagens que viveram mais de duas décadas nas ruas. Encontramos aqui mulheres que deram à luz nas ruas em decorrência de estupros sofridos pela condição de absoluta vulnerabilidade. Transitamos nesse livro das informações sobre números, índices demográficos, processos históricos, propostas de políticas públicas até aspectos de dramas pessoais sem nunca perder a referência do contexto social. (Ermínia Maricato)
