Financing climate-related resettlements in uneven geographies of risk: Lessons from Bogota Humana

Sarmiento, Hugo

doi:10.1080/07352166.2020.1760721

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“…Cusco's (Peru) Urban Risk Assessment, a WB tool, highlighted the city's social adaptability, migration trends, tourism dependence, informal settlements participation, data scarcity and CCA as noticeable traits for LRR management, which, wisely, was first disseminated in institutions (Bloch et al, 2014). A similar assessment of the climate-related resettlements of the Bogota Humana program revealed uneven geographies and the resistance of residents, because their real needs were unattended, e.g., legalization and fair compensation (H. Sarmiento, 2020).…”

Section: Land and Urban Managementmentioning

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Land policies for landslide risk reduction in Andean cities

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Egas

Teller

2021

Habitat International

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Land policies for landslide risk reduction in Andean cities Highlights• The landslide susceptibility of the Andes demands more risk reduction research to be conducted.• Landslide risk reduction practices have been proven successful by articulating bottom-up approaches.• Risk reduction networks across formal structures are more effective than cliché policies and grouped actors.• Understanding Andean informality may lead to strategic landslide risk reduction and climatic adaptation.

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Section: Land and Urban Managementmentioning

confidence: 99%

Land policies for landslide risk reduction in Andean cities

Puente-Sotomayor

Egas

Teller

2021

Habitat International

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“…Yet in the face of increased climate-related pressures, there are examples emerging of communities resisting relocation plans and choosing to remain in places of belonging; such preferences for immobility must be accounted for in relocation policy and planning [28,29]. In Bogota, Colombia, despite avalanches that have resulted in the loss of lives and recognition by many residents that current sites are not habitable, people remain and resist a government resettlement plan [30]. After a government relocation plan was implemented in response to flood risks in the village of Etsha 13 in the Okavango delta of Botswana, many households returned to their previous location [31].…”

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confidence: 99%

Climate Change, Voluntary Immobility, and Place-Belongingness: Insights from Togoru, Fiji

Yee

Piggott-McKellar

McMichael

et al. 2022

Climate

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Many low-lying communities around the world are increasingly experiencing coastal hazard risks. As such, climate-related relocation has received significant global attention as an adaptation response. However, emerging cases of populations resisting relocation in preference for remaining in place are emerging. This paper provides an account of residents of Togoru, a low-lying coastal settlement on Viti Levu Island, Fiji. Despite facing significant coastal impacts in the form of coastal erosion, tidal inundation, and saltwater intrusion, Togoru residents are opposing plans for relocation; instead opting for in-situ adaptation. We conceptualize place-belongingness to a land and people—through personal, historic and ancestral, relational, cultural, economic, and legal connections—as critical to adaptation and mobility decision-making. We argue that for adaptation strategies to be successful and sustainable, they must acknowledge the values, perspectives, and preferences of local people and account for the tangible and intangible connections to a place.

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