Land tenure and urban climate resilience in the South Pacific

McEvoy, Darryn; Mitchell, David; Trundle, Alexei

doi:10.1080/17565529.2019.1594666

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“…Boonyabancha 2009 ). The Pacific presents unique conditions and responses given the interconnectivity between a diverse array of socio-cultural, spatial, and temporal urban migration patterns and the spatial typologies and climate vulnerabilities faced by Small Island Developing States (Jones 2016 ; McEvoy et al 2020 ).…”

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Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Towards a Transformative Upgrading Agenda

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Trundle

Korte³

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Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies

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Informal settlements are on the frontline in the battle against climate change. Home to one billion people, their infrastructure deprivations pose challenges for the health and resilience of communities and ecosystems. Upgrading of informal settlements can improve urban services and infrastructure, strengthen tenure security, and empower local communities. This chapter examines the conceptual and practice relationships between climate resilience and in-situ upgrading. It critiques prevailing approaches, which centre upon threshold, coping, recovery, and adaptive capacities. Transformative capacity offers greater scope for addressing climate change impacts at a level commensurate with the size of the challenge, and for redressing the entrenched structural inequalities and deep socio-spatial injustices shaping cities in the Global South that perpetuate vulnerability and socio-spatial exclusion. Five elements are identified to advance transformative informal settlement upgrading: socio-technical innovation; a climate justice framing; greater attention to intersectional dimensions; inclusive governance and community empowerment; and fit for purpose finance.

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Section: In-situ Settlement Upgradingmentioning

confidence: 99%

Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Towards a Transformative Upgrading Agenda

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Trundle

Korte³

et al. 2020

Palgrave Studies in Climate Resilient Societies

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“…As shown in Figure 3, the three settlements subject to HURCAP community consultations were Ontong Java (hotspot 1), Kukum Fishing Village (2), and the Aekafo Planning Area (3). The two settlements identified for climate action planning in a follow-up phase were White River (4) and Gilbert Camp (5). Each of these informal settlements suffers from water supply, flooding, erosion, sanitation, drainage, and waste problems to varying degrees.…”

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“…Each of these informal settlements suffers from water supply, flooding, erosion, sanitation, drainage, and waste problems to varying degrees. up phase were White River (4) and Gilbert Camp (5). Each of these informal settlements suffers from water supply, flooding, erosion, sanitation, drainage, and waste problems to varying degrees.…”

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“…The portfolio of actions, in addition to completing climate action plans for all five case study settlements, includes: comprehensive community profiles, local engineering solutions, climate risk communication with women and youth groups, urban organic farming, climate resilient spaces (hard and soft), and recommendations for responsible land administration in peri-urban areas. Capacity strengthening efforts include: community awareness raising, 'Planning up phase were White River (4) and Gilbert Camp (5). Each of these informal settlements suffers from water supply, flooding, erosion, sanitation, drainage, and waste problems to varying degrees.…”

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“…A combination of urbanisation and a changing climate present significant challenges for many fast-growing cities in the Global South [1][2][3]. This is particularly the case for small island nations in the South Pacific, where a changing climate will impact primary cities characterised by geographical isolation, high levels of exposure to natural hazards, rapid urbanisation, and growth of informal settlements, deficits in urban infrastructure, and a lack of institutional capacity to respond [4,5].…”

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Integrating Teaching and Learning with Inter-Disciplinary Action Research in Support of Climate Resilient Urban Development

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The capital cities of the South Pacific are experiencing rapid urbanisation pressures as increasing numbers of people migrate to the primary cities either in search of employment and greater access to healthcare and education, or as a consequence of environmental ‘push’ factors. However, the limited capacity of municipal Governments to respond to the scale and pace of change is leading to a growth of informal settlements in peri-urban locations. Factors of exposure, sensitivity, and adaptive capacity combine to make these informal settlements the most vulnerable areas to natural hazards. In response to this critical urban resilience agenda, this paper looks at how participatory action research is providing inter-disciplinary scientific support for the implementation of urban resilience and climate actions in Honiara, Solomon Islands. Adaptation measures involve a combination of hard and soft actions; as well as activities designed to strengthen local capacity to respond to contemporary resilience challenges. Addressing the adaptive capacity component, this paper also highlights the opportunities for Australian universities to integrate teaching and learning with action research to achieve a substantive real-world impact in the Pacific region, as well as illustrating the capacity strengthening benefits that can be achieved through sustained engagement and collaborative partnerships with local organisations.

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Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research

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While climate change adaptation research has increasingly focused on aspects of culture, a systematic treatment of the role of legal culture in how communities respond to climate risk has yet to be produced. This is despite the fact that law and legal authority are implicated in most, if not all, of the ways in which actors seek to reduce the risks posed to communities by climate change. Using a scoping review methodology, this article examines the intersection of climate change adaptation and legal culture in existing research. Overall, we find that the significance of legal culture for adaptation actions has been under-explored.Yet, it is also clear that a focus on legal culture holds significant promise for our understanding of climate change adaptation. We set out a research agenda for the field, highlighting the ways in which a focus on legal culture may enrich existing key themes within climate change adaptation research.

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Land tenure and urban climate resilience in the South Pacific

Cited by 29 publications

References 15 publications

Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Towards a Transformative Upgrading Agenda

Climate Resilience in Urban Informal Settlements: Towards a Transformative Upgrading Agenda

Integrating Teaching and Learning with Inter-Disciplinary Action Research in Support of Climate Resilient Urban Development

Legal culture and climate change adaptation: An agenda for research

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