EDITORIAL

Why is community action needed for disaster risk reduction and climate change adaptation?
David Satterthwaite

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COMMUNITY-DRIVEN DISASTER RISK REDUCTION

Seeing a disaster as an opportunity – harnessing the energy of disaster survivors for change
Diane Archer and Somsook Boonyabancha

Addressing disaster risk reduction through community-rooted interventions in the Philippines: experience of the Homeless People’s Federation of the Philippines
Norberto Carcellar, Jason Christopher Rayos Co and Zarina O Hipolito

Urban governance and disaster risk reduction in the Caribbean: the experiences of Oxfam GB
Mark Pelling

Local disaster risk reduction in Latin American urban areas
Jorgelina Hardoy, Gustavo Pandiella and Luz Stella Velásquez Barrero

Kernels of change: civil society challenges to state-led strategies for recovery and risk reduction in Turkey
Cassidy Johnson

Coping with urban flooding: a study of the 2009 Kurnool floods, India
C Ramachandraiah

Haiti: post-earthquake lessons learned from traditional construction
Joel F Audefroy

CLIMATE CHANGE AND CITIES

Implementing urban participatory climate change adaptation appraisals: a methodological guideline
Caroline Moser and Alfredo Stein

Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: research, policy and action in the context of climate change
Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy and David Hulme

Constraints of pro-poor climate change adaptation in Chittagong city
Ronju Ahammad

FEEDBACK

The evolution of the microcredit programme of the OPP’s Orangi Charitable Trust, Karachi
Arif Hasan and Mansoor Raza

Land and revenue in a “traditional town” in Ghana: the case of the Nkwanta sub-division in Mpasatia
Jørgen Andreasen, Jørgen Eskemose Andersen and Daniel K B Inkoom

Urban governance and health care provision in Delhi
Stéphanie Tawa Lama-Rewal

Analyzing urban layouts – can high density be achieved with good living conditions?
Shirish B Patel

Developing urban waste management in Brazil with waste picker organizations
Oscar Fergutz with Sonia Dias and Diana Mitlin

BOOK NOTES

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BULLETIN BOARD

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SUMMARIES

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