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Adapting to climate change: cities and the urban poor

This paper explores some of the emerging issues that cities in the developing world confront as they begin to develop plans and strategies to adapt to the effects of global climate change. The emphasis is on low-income populations, both those now settled in cities and those still to migrate from rural areas, whom quality of housing is poor and least resistant to extreme weather events and who lack the resources, and often the information, to respond in ways to mitigate their increasingly precarious situations. The paper is an overview of current knowledge, meant to highlight the amount of cross-sector research and programming that can and must be built from this basis of understanding.

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