Housing and human settlements in a world of change

The challenge of housing is increasingly recognized in international policy discussions in connection to the processes of migration, climate change, and economic globalization. This book addresses the challenges of housing and emerging solutions along the lines of three major dynamics: migration, climate change, and neo-liberalism. It explores the outcomes of neo-liberal »enabling« ideas, responses to extreme climate events with different housing approaches, and how the dynamics of migration reshape the urban housing provision in a changing world. The aim is to contextualize the theoretical discourses by reflecting on the case study context of the eleven papers published in this book.With forewords by Rachel Rolnik (University Sao Paulo) and Mohammed El Soufi (UN-Habitat).

Introduction: Housing and Human Settlements in a World of Change --Chapter 1: Indonesian Housing Policy in the Era of Globalization --Chapter 2: Let's Get Down to Business - Private Influences in the Making of Affordable Housing Policies --Chapter 3: Mutual Aid, Self-Management and Collective Ownership --Chapter 4: Understanding the Housing Needs of Low-Skilled Bangladeshi Migrants in Oman --Chapter 5: Between Need for Housing and Speculation --Chapter 6: Influence of Migrants' Two-Directional Rural-Urban Linkages in Urban Villages in China --Chapter 7: Urban Environmental Migrants --Chapter 8: Heat-Stress-Related Climate-Change Adaptation in Informal Urban Communities --Chapter 9: From the Hyper-ghetto to Statesubsidised Urban Sprawl --Chapter 10: Learning From Co-Produced Landslide Risk Mitigation Strategies in Low-Income Settlements in Medellín (Colombia) and São Paulo (Brazil) --Bio Notes