Publication: Pro-Poor Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Centers : Case Studies of Vulnerability and Resilience in Kenya and Nicaragua
Date
2010-06-01
ISSN
Published
2010-06-01
Author(s)
Moser, Caroline
Norton, Andrew
Stein, Alfredo
Georgieva, Sophia
Abstract
The objective of this economic sector
work (ESW) is to address these gaps by piloting a
methodology capable of quickly and cost-effectively
introducing into adaptation planning processes an
appreciation of the significance of climate change impacts
for poor people in informal urban settlements. Specifically
in the two case study sites (Mombasa in Kenya and Esteli in
Nicaragua) sought to: a) make visible climate change impacts
of various kinds on poor people; b) illustrate what poor
households, small businesses and groups in communities are
doing to cope with such climate change impacts (experienced
as increasingly variable and capricious weather patterns);
and c) identify how policy and institutional systems can
best build on local realities to develop pro-poor urban
climate change adaptation actions, particularly relating to
resilience. The report introduces an asset-based framework
to analyze the vulnerability of urban poor people to severe
weather events whose frequency or intensity climate change
may be increasing, and is very likely to increase in the
future as well as their asset-based adaptation strategies as
a source of long-term resilience, to cope with the onset of
severe weather and to rebuild after such events. The
importance of this study relates to the fact that urban
centers of low and middle-income countries concentrate a
large proportion of those most at risk from the effects of
severe weather associated with climate change as lives,
assets, environmental quality and future prosperity are
threatened by 'the increasing risk of storms, flooding,
landslides, heat waves and drought and by overloading water,
drainage and energy supply systems'. The report
describes an analytical framework and action research
methodology developed so as to enable local authorities and
other relevant institutions to incorporate socio-economic
vulnerability and local level asset-based adaptation into
climate change adaptation actions and strategies.
Citation
“Moser, Caroline; Norton, Andrew; Stein, Alfredo; Georgieva, Sophia. 2010. Pro-Poor Adaptation to Climate Change in Urban Centers : Case Studies of Vulnerability and Resilience in Kenya and Nicaragua. © World Bank. http://openknowledge.worldbank.org/handle/10986/3001 License: CC BY 3.0 IGO.”