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Climate Change: Learning from Grassroots Coping Strategies
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Built-in resilience: learning from grassroots coping strategies Fifth Urban Research Symposium 2009
This paper attempts to establish the relations between adaptation, disaster risk reduction and coping strategies for urban areas. It summarizes some of the existing coping strategies of the urban poor in Korail area – the largest informal settlement in Dhaka, Bangladesh. The paper discusses how local planning, adaptation, and governance mechanisms can support the existing coping strategies in urban areas.
The purpose of this paper is to contribute to our current understanding of local coping strategies by examining the coping mechanisms developed and adopted by the urban poor - and to discuss how these mechanisms can be mainstreamed into urban planning responses to climate change adaptation. The research focuses on local coping strategies that can be observed in the built environment such as, how people adapt their houses, living spaces, streets, open spaces and infrastructure to cope with existing environmental hazards.
