Mumbai (Bombay) is India's main industrial and commercial centre. According to the United
Nations it is the seventh largest city in the world with the fifth fastest rate of population …

By January 2015 the world's richest 80 people had as much wealth as the poorest 50 per
cent of the world's population. It is a global unevenness through which the barriers to in …

This study deals with a normative concept of participatory development approach, which
originates in the developed world. In particular, it analyses and explains the limitations to the …

When disaster strikes in cities the effects can be catastrophic compared to other
environments. But what factors actually determine the vulnerability or resilience of cities …

The burgeoning interest in social capital within the climate change community represents a
welcome move towards a concern for the behavioural elements of adaptive action and …

More than half of the world's population now lives in urban areas, and a billion of these
urban dwellers reside in neighborhoods of entrenched disadvantage—neighborhoods that …

Some 90% of the Guyanese population are at risk from contemporary flood hazard and the
potential impacts of climate change and sea-level rise. Such risks are not the product of …

There is huge geographical variation in the extent to which excrement represents a threat to
human and environmental health. In the UK, we tend to think little of such risks. By contrast …

The tension between international agencies, national and local institutions of the Global
South has received much recent attention. This paper contributes to the debate by …

The City in the Developing World is a comprehensive and up-to-date introduction to
urbanisation in developing countries. The goal of this text is to place an understanding of the …