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Lessons from Coastal Slums of Global South Toward Flood Resilience
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Urban slums are among the areas most vulnerable to the impacts of climate extremes. At the same time hosts a major urban population in developing countries. More than a billion people in developing countries live in slums. Coastal and river basin slums are particularly vulnerable because they are located in low-lying marshy swamps and have limited options for prevention and absorption, far from the way developed countries do. The challenge put forward has forced slum dwellers to adopt vernacular measures. The objective of the paper is to identify and present these measures as a framework or a compendium of vernacular flood adaptation and mitigation actions. The excess of water which has been generally seen as a threat is progressively changing into also being seen as an opportunity. Cities from developing countries such as Jakarta, Dhaka, and Mumbai set an example while showcasing urban slum adaptation through measures particularly pertinent to public space retrofits. The methodology to identify the measures involves observations and interpretation from assessed cities. A framework of vernacular measures is created and presented from coastal urban slums within each studied city. Results provide a theoretical framework of vernacular measures, conceived for coastal urban slums in developing countries that complement state-of-the-art measures from the developed countries. It is therefore highlighted the significant role of urban slums of the global south in the search for local adaptation building for flood resilience.
Lessons from Coastal Slums of Global South Toward Flood Resilience
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-2681
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-3975
Urban slums are among the areas most vulnerable to the impacts of climate extremes. At the same time hosts a major urban population in developing countries. More than a billion people in developing countries live in slums. Coastal and river basin slums are particularly vulnerable because they are located in low-lying marshy swamps and have limited options for prevention and absorption, far from the way developed countries do. The challenge put forward has forced slum dwellers to adopt vernacular measures. The objective of the paper is to identify and present these measures as a framework or a compendium of vernacular flood adaptation and mitigation actions. The excess of water which has been generally seen as a threat is progressively changing into also being seen as an opportunity. Cities from developing countries such as Jakarta, Dhaka, and Mumbai set an example while showcasing urban slum adaptation through measures particularly pertinent to public space retrofits. The methodology to identify the measures involves observations and interpretation from assessed cities. A framework of vernacular measures is created and presented from coastal urban slums within each studied city. Results provide a theoretical framework of vernacular measures, conceived for coastal urban slums in developing countries that complement state-of-the-art measures from the developed countries. It is therefore highlighted the significant role of urban slums of the global south in the search for local adaptation building for flood resilience.
Lessons from Coastal Slums of Global South Toward Flood Resilience
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1364-2681
https://orcid.org/http://orcid.org/0000-0003-4608-3975
Urban slums are among the areas most vulnerable to the impacts of climate extremes. At the same time hosts a major urban population in developing countries. More than a billion people in developing countries live in slums. Coastal and river basin slums are particularly vulnerable because they are located in low-lying marshy swamps and have limited options for prevention and absorption, far from the way developed countries do. The challenge put forward has forced slum dwellers to adopt vernacular measures. The objective of the paper is to identify and present these measures as a framework or a compendium of vernacular flood adaptation and mitigation actions. The excess of water which has been generally seen as a threat is progressively changing into also being seen as an opportunity. Cities from developing countries such as Jakarta, Dhaka, and Mumbai set an example while showcasing urban slum adaptation through measures particularly pertinent to public space retrofits. The methodology to identify the measures involves observations and interpretation from assessed cities. A framework of vernacular measures is created and presented from coastal urban slums within each studied city. Results provide a theoretical framework of vernacular measures, conceived for coastal urban slums in developing countries that complement state-of-the-art measures from the developed countries. It is therefore highlighted the significant role of urban slums of the global south in the search for local adaptation building for flood resilience.
Lessons from Coastal Slums of Global South Toward Flood Resilience
Advances in Science, Technology & Innovation
Battisti, Alessandra (editor) / Piselli, Cristina (editor) / Strauss, Eric J (editor) / Dobjani, Etleva (editor) / Kristo, Saimir (editor) / Goyal, Anubhav (author) / Silva, Maria Matos (author)
International Conference on Green Urbanism
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2022
International Conference On Urban Regeneration and Sustainability
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2022
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Tirana, Albania
Greening Our Cities: Sustainable Urbanism for a Greener Future ; Chapter: 25 ; 347-359
2024-05-31
13 pages
Article/Chapter (Book)
Electronic Resource
English
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