Averting a downward spiral: Building resilience in informal urban settlements through adaptive governance

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 184-199

  Seeliger, Leanne ^a   Turok, Ivan ^a  

^a HUMAN SCIENCES RESEARCH COUNCIL   (South Africa)

Author keywords

adaptive governance; resilience; risk; urban informal settlements; vulnerability

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; POVERTY; PUBLIC SECTOR; RISK FACTOR; URBAN AREA; VULNERABILITY;

SOUTH AFRICA; STELLENBOSCH; WESTERN CAPE;

EID: 84899619332     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247813516240     Document Type: Article

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