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Built-in resilience: Learning from urban grassroots coping strategies to climate variability

This project examined how the urban poor are already coping with conditions of increased vulnerability by understanding how they respond to existing environmental hazards.

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13 June 2010

This project examined how the urban poor are already coping with conditions of increased vulnerability by understanding how they respond to existing environmental hazards, such as floods, heavy rains, landslides, heat and drought. The research focused on local coping strategies observable in the built environment, that is, how people have adapted their houses, living spaces, streets, open spaces and infrastructure to cope with existing environmental hazards. Conceptually and methodologically, the research comes from the disaster management perspective, drawing on a background of vulnerability and resilience literature. Empirically, the project draws on primary data collected in the informal settlements in Korail and Mohammedpur in Dhaka.

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