Environmental Justice and Urban Resilience in the Global South

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xix

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2. Environmental Justice and Resilience in the Urban Global South: An Emerging Agenda

   • Liza Griffin, Deena Khalil, Adriana Allen, Cassidy Johnson

   Pages 1-11

3. The Institutional Governance of Resilience and Environmentally Just Practice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 13-15

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   2. Top-Down, Bottom-Up and Beyond: Governance Perspectives on Urban Resilience and Environmental Justice in the People’s Republic of China

      • Linda Westman

      Pages 17-35

   3. Planning for Mobility and Socio-Environmental Justice: The Case of Medellín, Colombia

      • Caren Levy, Julio D. Dávila

      Pages 37-55

   4. Institutional Discourses on Urban Water Poverty, Considering the Example of Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Reconciling Justice and Resilience?

      • Pascale Hofmann

      Pages 57-78

   5. Post-disaster Institutional and Community Responses: Uneven Outcomes on Environmental Justice and Resilience in Chaitén, Chile

      • Vicente Sandoval, Claudia Gonzalez-Muzzio, Cristian Albornoz

      Pages 79-94

4. Everyday Practices: Informal or Bottom-up Attempts to Achieve Resilience and Environmental Justice

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 95-98

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   2. Justice, Resilience and Illegality: Energy Vulnerability in Romani Settlements in Bulgaria

      • Rosalina Babourkova

      Pages 99-116

   3. The Resilient Agrocity Metabolism: Evidence from the Neighbourhoods of Dondo, Mozambique

      • Céline F. Veríssimo

      Pages 117-135

   4. Pathways Towards the Resilient City: Presupposition of Equality and Active Justice in Bangkok, Thailand

      • Camillo Boano

      Pages 137-152

   5. Adaptability of the Built Environment of Informal Settlements to Increase Climate Resilience in Dhaka‚ Bangladesh

      • Huraera Jabeen

      Pages 153-168

5. Co-produced Governance

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 169-173

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   2. The Co-production of Water Justice in Latin American Cities

      • Adriana Allen, Anna Walnycki, Étienne von Bertrab

      Pages 175-193

   3. Building Community Resilience to Recurrent Flooding: Field Experience from the 2012 Assam Floods, India

      • Sneha Krishnan

      Pages 195-214

   4. Floods and Food in the City: Lessons from Collaborative Governance Within the Policy Network on Urban Agriculture in Bangkok, Thailand

      • Piyapong Boossabong

      Pages 215-230

   5. Mapping the Contradictions: An Examination of the Relationship Between Resilience and Environmental Justice

      • Rita Lambert, Adriana Allen

      Pages 231-257

   6. Urban Infrastructure and Energy Poverty in Maputo, Mozambique

      • Diana Salazar, Vanesa Castán Broto, Kevin Adams

      Pages 259-276

   7. Urban Resilience and Justice: Exploring the Tensions, Building upon the Connections

      • Adriana Allen, Cassidy Johnson, Deena Khalil, Liza Griffin

      Pages 277-289

6. Back Matter

   Pages 291-307

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This edited volume provides a fresh perspective on the important yet often neglected relationship between environmental justice and urban resilience. Many scholars have argued that resilient cities are more just cities. But what if the process of increasing the resilience of the city as a whole happens at the expense of the rights of certain groups? If urban resilience focuses on the degree to which cities are able to reorganise in creative ways and adapt to shocks, do pervasive inequalities in access to environmental services have an effect on this ability? This book brings together an interdisciplinary and intergeneration group of scholars to examine the contradictions and tensions that develop as they play out in cities of the Global South through a series of empirically grounded case studies spanning cities of Asia, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe.

• Environmental justice
• Urbanization
• Resilience
• Global South
• Cities
• Urban resilience
• Climate change
• Infrastructure
• Emergency response systems
• Healthcare
• Rule of law
• Social inequality
• Social capital
• Urban poor
• latin american politics

“The volume is distinctive amid other literature in this field in its focus on the connection of resilience to environmental justice in the Global South. … The book will be most useful to researchers in environmental justice, particularly in the developing world, but also to those interested more generally in how resilience is being approached in a global context.” (Christopher L. Atkinson, International Journal of Public Administration, April 2018) “This timeous volume does more than bring together a collection of essays on issues of poverty, climate change and urban planning in the global south. The book knits together rich case studies from across the world to speak, individually and collectively, to the urban sustainability nexus of power, injustice and the environment.” (Susan Parnell, Professor of Urban Geography, University of Cape Town, South Africa, and Visiting Professor at LSECities, UK)

“An impressively detailed and wide-ranging collection of case studies that holds urban resilience and environmental justice to account, providing a baseline for work aspiring to enhance justice and resilience in the city. The authors quickly identify a deepened democratic foundation if either, let alone both, agendas are to move forward.” (Mark Pelling, Professor of Geography, King's College London, UK)

• The Bartlett Development Planning Unit (DPU), University College London (UCL), London, United Kingdom

  Adriana Allen, Liza Griffin, Cassidy Johnson

Adriana Allen is Professor of Urban Sustainability and Development Planning at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK, where she leads the Research Cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience. 


Liza Griffin is Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK, where she co-directs the MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development. 


Cassidy Johnson is Senior Lecturer at The Bartlett Development Planning Unit, University College London, UK. 

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