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| DOI | 10.1007/s10584-019-02535-1 |
| Planned retreat in Global South megacities: disentangling policy; practice; and environmental justice | |
| Ajibade I. | |
| 发表日期 | 2019 |
| ISSN | 0165-0009 |
| 起始页码 | 299 |
| 结束页码 | 317 |
| 卷号 | 157期号:2 |
| 英文摘要 | The retreat of urban populations as an adaptation strategy has the potential to protect people, businesses, and infrastructure from the severe impacts of climate change. However, it can also lead to the unjust dislocation of the urban poor whose contributions to climate change are negligible but whose exposure to climatic risk is high. These groups of people also have little say in the decision-making about whether to retreat, when and how, thus raising concerns about equity and justice. In this paper, I examine the policy and practice of managed retreat and its environmental justice dimensions in Manila (Philippines) and Lagos (Nigeria) from 2010 to 2018. Expert interviews, focus group discussions, and policy documents were collected and analyzed for both cities. Findings reveal a complex picture of contradictions. In Lagos, retreat was stated in climate change policy but in practice only the urban poor were forcibly removed from waterfront areas and in their place new urban development projects are being constructed. In Manila, retreat was not mentioned in policy but evidence indicates informal settlers and national government offices were the target of planned retreat. Unlike Lagos, the urban poor in Manila were offered a mortgaged pathway to homeownership outside the city. However, the lack of livelihood opportunities in relocation sites engendered a cycle of retreat and return. This study further discusses how climatic uncertainties, property values, government distrust, utopian imaginaries, and environmental injustices served as barriers to managed retreat in both cities. The paper concludes with a call for an environmentally and socially just approach to retreat. It argues that the rights of the urban poor to the city must be taken into consideration even under complex climatic and socio-ecological disruptions. © 2019, Springer Nature B.V. |
| 语种 | 英语 |
| scopus关键词 | Behavioral research; Decision making; Urban growth; Adaptation strategies; Climate change policies; Complex pictures; Environmental justice; Livelihood opportunities; National governments; Policy documents; Urban development; Climate change; climate change; environmental justice; homeownership; livelihood; megacity; uncertainty analysis; urban development; urban planning; urban policy; urban renewal; Lagos [Nigeria]; Manila; National Capital Region; Nigeria; Philippines |
| 来源期刊 | Climatic Change
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| 文献类型 | 期刊论文 |
| 条目标识符 | http://gcip.llas.ac.cn/handle/2XKMVOVA/147376 |
| 作者单位 | Department of Geography, Portland State University, 1721 SW Broadway, Portland, OR 97201, United States |
| 推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Ajibade I.. Planned retreat in Global South megacities: disentangling policy; practice; and environmental justice[J],2019,157(2). |
| APA | Ajibade I..(2019).Planned retreat in Global South megacities: disentangling policy; practice; and environmental justice.Climatic Change,157(2). |
| MLA | Ajibade I.."Planned retreat in Global South megacities: disentangling policy; practice; and environmental justice".Climatic Change 157.2(2019). |
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