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dc.titleEcological Design: Strategies for the Vulnerable City: Adapting Precarious Areas in Latin America and the Caribbean to Climate Change
dc.contributor.authorVera, Felipe
dc.contributor.authorSordi, Jeannette
dc.contributor.orgunitHousing and Urban Development Division
dc.coverageLatin America and the Caribbean
dc.date.available2021-05-17T00:00:00
dc.date.issue2020-12-23T00:00:00
dc.description.abstractAccording to the United Nations, approximately three out of every five cities in the world with at least 500,000 inhabitants are at high risk of a natural disaster. If no better work is done on mitigating and adapting cities, in the future they will be more populated, hotter, and less biodiverse. The environmental and climate crisis accentuates inequality, given that the most socially and economically vulnerable groups are more exposed to natural risks and generally have less access to infrastructure and ecosystem services. In Latin America and the Caribbean, the most vulnerable populations often reside in informal, precarious or popular settlements. In recent years, important advances have been made in rethinking these settlements, developing intervention strategies to improve the quality of life, safety and opportunities for their inhabitants. Today it is essential to effectively incorporate climate criteria into urban interventions. Ecological Design measures the impacts of the climate crisis in the most vulnerable areas of our cities - the informal city - while reflecting on how to protect those who are most strongly affected by the consequences of climate change. In addition, it provides new lenses to analyze risk and design nature-based solutions in precarious, informal, popular, vulnerable urban settlements, to make the informal city a more resilient city in the face of the climatic pressures that will come in the coming decades.
dc.format.extent188
dc.identifier.doihttp://dx.doi.org/10.18235/0003271
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/english/document/211203_bid_disenoecologico_Ingles_LIBRO_DIGITAL_en_baja_pdf.pdf
dc.identifier.urlhttps://publications.iadb.org/publications/spanish/document/Diseño-ecologico-Estrategias-para-la-ciudad-vulnerable-adaptando-las-areas-precarias-de-america-latina-y-el-caribe-al-cambio-climatico.pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.mediumAdobe PDF
dc.publisherInter-American Development Bank
dc.subjectClimate Change Adaptation
dc.subjectInformal Settlement
dc.subjectWater and Sanitation
dc.subjectUrban Development
dc.subjectHousing
dc.subjectFlood Damage
dc.subjectGreenhouse Gas Emission
dc.subjectSlum Upgrading
dc.subjectInfrastructure Development
dc.subjectGreen Infrastructure
dc.subjectDrought
dc.subjectEconomy
dc.subject.jelcodeO54 - Latin America • Caribbean
dc.subject.jelcodeQ54 - Climate • Natural Disasters and Their Management • Global Warming
dc.subject.jelcodeQ56 - Environment and Development • Environment and Trade • Sustainability • Environmental Accounts and Accounting • Environmental Equity • Population Growth
dc.subject.jelcodeO21 - Planning Models • Planning Policy
dc.subject.jelcodeO12 - Microeconomic Analyses of Economic Development
dc.subject.jelcodeR21 - Housing Demand
dc.subject.jelcodeQ57 - Ecological Economics: Ecosystem Services • Biodiversity Conservation • Bioeconomics • Industrial Ecology
dc.subject.jelcodeR31 - Housing Supply and Markets
dc.subject.jelcodeR14 - Land Use Patterns
dc.subject.jelcodeO35 - Social Innovation
dc.typeMonographs
idb.identifier.pubnumberIDB-MG-00861
idb.operationAR-T1220
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