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

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 22, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 415-431

  Jabeen, Huraera ^a   Johnson, Cassidy ^b   Allen, Adriana ^b  

^a BRAC UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

adaptation planning; Bangladesh; built environment; climate variability; grassroots coping strategies; urban poor

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE MANAGEMENT; CLIMATE VARIATION; COPING STRATEGY; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; GRASSROOTS LEVEL; INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; LOW INCOME POPULATION; URBAN PLANNING; URBAN POPULATION;

BANGLADESH;

EID: 78049523249     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247810379937     Document Type: Article

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