Abstract
Climate change and disaster pose a serious and growing risk to sustainable urban development planning, with disasters having quadrupled in the last three decades. The extent of the changing climatic conditions, in combination with growing urbanisation, is making both Southern and Northern institutions and associated social security and governance systems increasingly inadequate in dealing with extreme weather events. This results in an urgent need to discover innovative ways to adapt “outdated” institutional responses and to increase local-level engagement. This paper analyses current risk financing mechanisms at local and institutional levels in both a Southern and a Northern city (San Salvador and Manchester respectively). The North’s dependency on insurance fails to contribute to resilience whereas the South’s reliance on nongovernmental aid organisations (NGOs) has driven a range of bottom-up approaches that support improved risk reduction. Although measures for risk financing are still not part of the NGOs’ repertoire, this provides lessons from which Northern cities could also learn.
Original language | English |
---|---|
Pages (from-to) | 197-223 |
Journal | Housing Studies |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | 2 |
DOIs | |
Publication status | Published - 2011 |
Bibliographical note
special issue on ‘Disasters, Housing and Actuarialism: On the Securitisation of Risk'Subject classification (UKÄ)
- Other Social Sciences
- Building Technologies
- Other Civil Engineering
Free keywords
- planning
- insurance
- risk financing
- Disaster risk reduction
- climate change
- social housing