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    Implementing the Urban Community Resilience Assessment in Vulnerable Neighborhoods of Three Cities

    Reports & Research
    December, 2018
    Brazil, Indonesia, India

    Climate change affects poor and marginalized communities first and hardest. Particularly in cities, a lack of access to basic services, a long history of unsustainable urban development, and political exclusion render the urban poor one of the most vulnerable groups to climate induced natural hazards and disasters. Yet strategies focused on reducing these people’s vulnerability to climate change often overlook crucial differences in their needs and situations.

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    Facts and Analysis 2016

    Conference Papers & Reports
    September, 2016
    South Africa, India, China, Brazil

    This compendium and analysis of Cities in the BRICS countries were developed through a partnership between the South African Cities Network (SACN) and the South African Research Chair in Spatial Analysis and City Planning (SA&CP) at the University of the Witwatersrand. Since South Africa joined BRICS in 2010, multiple connections have been forged between South Africa and its alliance partners. However, although there is a growing volume of engagements, there is still inadequate knowledge and understanding across the BRICS.

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    Reports & Research
    December, 2006
    Qatar, Mozambique, Zambia, Afghanistan, Guatemala, Iran, Ethiopia, Mongolia, New Zealand, Nepal, Laos, Turkey, Kyrgyzstan, Kuwait, India, Bahrain, Georgia, Cambodia, Asia

    This paper presents the application of the Sustainable Livelihoods Approach (SLA) to forest-poverty linkages and the analysis of the main issues that are raised for the Forestry Outlook study. The LSP Sub-programme on access to natural resources initially intended to begin its work in support of the FOWECA project with a regional desk study. However, with Forest - poverty linkages in West and Central Asia 2 sparse literature available, a decision was made to focus the initial work on Kyrgyzstan given the experience of the Collaborative Forest Management (LSP Working Paper 13).

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    Household Savings and Residential Mobility in Informal Settlements cover image
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    India

    Strategies to help the one billion people worldwide who live in informal settlements have mainly focused on slum upgrading, sites and services programs, and tenure security. In contrast, there has been less attention on what enables slum dwellers to transition into the formal housing sector, which has the dual benefits of improving service access and escaping social stigma. In this paper the authors investigate residential mobility among slum dwellers in Bhopal, India.

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    The Welfare Effects of Slum Improvement Programs : The Case of Mumbai cover image
    Reports & Research
    June, 2012
    India

    The authors compare the welfare effects of in situ slum upgrading programs with programs that provide slum dwellers with better housing in a new location. Evaluating the welfare effects of slum upgrading and resettlement programs requires estimating models of residential location choice, in which households trade off commuting costs against the cost and attributes of the housing they consume, including neighborhood attributes. The authors accomplish this using data for 5,000 households in Mumbai, a city in which 40 percent of the population live in slums.

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    Working with the Market : Approach to Reducing Urban Slums in India cover image
    Reports & Research
    March, 2012
    India

    This paper examines the policy options
    for India as it seeks to improve living conditions of the
    poor on a large scale and reduce the population in slums.
    Addressing the problem requires first a diagnosis of the
    market at the city level and a recognition that government
    interventions, rather than thwarting the operations of the
    market, should seek to make it operate better. This can
    substantially reduce the subsidies required to assist low

  7. Library Resource
    Improving Energy Access to the Urban Poor in Developing Countries cover image
    Reports & Research
    March, 2014
    Brazil, Colombia, Bangladesh, India

    The case studies documented in this
    report aim to inform the energy access community (including
    practitioners, civil society groups, project planners, end
    users) about best practices of successful energy access
    initiatives targeted at slum dwellers. Eight case studies
    focusing on electrification and household energy were
    selected from India, Bangladesh, Colombia and Brazil, all
    countries that have had varying success in providing access

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