Urban Vulnerability and Resilience
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Program background
There exists an important knowledge gap regarding the relationship between informal settlement tenants and structure owners, including the rights and entitlements of inhabitants of informal settlements, and how security or insecurity of tenure relates to individual and household vulnerability. Such information is critical for developing urban informal settlement policy and has important implications for future urban development planning.
Priority areas
To know more about this research program, please contact Dr. Joseph M. Macarthy (Executive Director) on
Tel: +23279684818 or
Email: jm72macarthy@yahoo.com
- Humanitarian Responses and Empowerment Outcomes in Informal Settlements
- Building Collective Capacity to Disrupt Urban Risk Traps
Program background
There exists an important knowledge gap regarding the relationship between informal settlement tenants and structure owners, including the rights and entitlements of inhabitants of informal settlements, and how security or insecurity of tenure relates to individual and household vulnerability. Such information is critical for developing urban informal settlement policy and has important implications for future urban development planning.
Priority areas
- Vulnerability of individuals/households/communities to disaster risks and the coping/adaptation approaches
- Urban disaster trends and the influencing factors
- Effects of urban disaster on household livelihoods
To know more about this research program, please contact Dr. Joseph M. Macarthy (Executive Director) on
Tel: +23279684818 or
Email: jm72macarthy@yahoo.com