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The Role of Migrant Communities in Building Climate Resilience in Urban Environments

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The number and diversity of migrant communities living in cities in developed countries are increasing. These have exerted more pressure on both physical and social infrastructures that have already been impacted by climate change. Improving migrant communities’ resilience to adverse climate events is a priority of the inclusive disaster risk reduction strategy prescribed in the urban resilience agendas in the Global North. This chapter discusses the characteristics of migrant communities and wider social environments that contribute to their vulnerability or resilience to climate extremes. It contends that physical, built, and natural environments make an insignificant contribution to migrant communities’ climatic vulnerability. In contrast, their social, cultural, and economic conditions are stronger determining factors of their adaptive capacity. Further, the disaster management system and the broader social, economic, and political systems of the host country play a substantial structural role in effecting their vulnerability and resilience. Hence, approaches to enhancing climate resilience of urban migrant communities in developed countries should go beyond technical planning and embrace sociopolitical and cultural complexities embedded in urban governance systems. Assistance should go beyond short-term relief and recovery, focus on risk mitigation and preparedness, and prioritize long-term, diversity-sensitive community development that mitigates inherent structural bottlenecks.

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Ngin, C., Neef, A., Grayman, J.H. (2021). The Role of Migrant Communities in Building Climate Resilience in Urban Environments. In: Brears, R.C. (eds) The Palgrave Handbook of Climate Resilient Societies. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-42462-6_21

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