Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

1. Front Matter

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2. Why Focusing on Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Is Relevant and Urgent

   • Amrita G. Daniere, Matthias Garschagen, Pakamas Thinphanga

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3. Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 17-17

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   2. Bridging Systems and People-Centred Approaches in Urban Vulnerability Research: Insights for Resilience from Dawei, Myanmar

      • Taylor Martin, Melissa Marschke, Saw Win

      Pages 19-40

   3. Water Access and Resilience to Climate-Induced Droughts in the Thai Secondary City of Khon Kaen: Unequal and Unjust Vulnerability

      • Danny Marks

      Pages 41-62

   4. Migrating Towards Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of Structural Violence on Myanmar Migrants in Phuket, Thailand

      • Angelica de Jesus-Bretschneider

      Pages 63-79

4. Creating Resilient Urban Governance: Facing Floods in Southeast Asia

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 81-81

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   2. Flood Vulnerability and Resilience in Peri-urbanizing Vietnam: A Case Study from Ninh Binh Province

      • Hue Le, Ly Bui Ha

      Pages 83-101

   3. Urban Governance of Flooding in Myanmar: A Case Study of Bago

      • Graham Reeder

      Pages 103-126

   4. Resistance for Resilience: A Reflexive Exploration of Battambang, Cambodia

      • Try Thuon, Yanjun Cai

      Pages 127-146

5. Improving Well-being: Forces of Migration, Ecotourism, and Urban Development

   1. Front Matter

      Pages 147-147

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   2. From Sea to City: Migration and Social Well-Being in Coastal Cambodia

      • Furqan Asif

      Pages 149-177

   3. Green for Whom? Exploring Ecotourism as a Climate-Adaptation Strategy in Trang An, Vietnam

      • Thao Hoang, Gwenn Pulliat

      Pages 179-199

   4. The Implementation Gap: Environmental Rhetoric Versus Reality in Lao Cai, Vietnam

      • Gwenn Pulliat

      Pages 201-222

   5. Towards an Agenda for Profound Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

      • Matthias Garschagen, Danny Marks

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This volume explores how climate change impacts interact with poverty and vulnerability to increase the risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia. It combines knowledge from both academic literature and action research to explore the creation of climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable.

The book contains contributions from researchers in different cities in Southeast Asia involved with the major research project Building Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asian Cities (UCRSEA). The authors respond to three urgent questions:

1. How does climate change interact with poverty and vulnerability to create risk for urban residents in Southeast Asia?
   
2. What does knowledge, from both academic literature and action research, tell us about creating climate resilient urban governance that is both inclusive and equitable?
   
3. How can we strengthen the agency of individuals, groups and institutions to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change?

The book hopes to answer to current challenges posed by climate change. In the volume, the authors discuss how the agency of individuals, groups and institutions can be strengthened to improve economic, physical and social well-being in urban areas, particularly in response to climate change.

• Urban Climate Change Resilience
• Climate Resilient Urban Governance
• Southeast Asia
• Climate Vulnerability
• Anthropogenic Action
• Urban Government for Adaptation
• Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia
• UCRSEA
• Climatic Change Impact Cambodia
• Climatic Change Impact Myanmar
• Climatic Change Impact Thailand
• Climatic Change Impact Vietnam
• urban geography and urbanism
• Climate change management
• climate change
• climate change impacts

• Department of Geography and Planning, University of Toronto Mississauga, Mississauga, Canada

  Amrita G. Daniere

• Vulnerability Assessment Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP), Institute for Environment and Human Security, United Nations University, Bonn, North Rhine-Westphalia, Germany

  Matthias Garschagen

Amrita Daniere is Vice Principal, Academic and Dean of the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She teaches courses on the geography of Southeast Asia, environmental issues in the Global South, research design and research methods, community-based service learning and urban planning workshop  Professor Daniere’s research focuses on community-based approaches to environmental issues in cities of the Global South.  She has published extensively on a planning in cities of Southeast Asian and Latin America and is currently the co-director of a multi-year partnership network project called the Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Project (funded by SSHRC and IDRC).

Dr. Matthias Garschagen is the Head of Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) at United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UN-EHS) and a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His main research focus is on urban vulnerability, social resilience and climate change adaptation, particularly in Asia. He serves as a Lead Author in the IPCC’s Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

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