Part 1: Urban Poverty and Climate Change –An Overview 1. Introduction: A short positioning (referring ClimUrb and Change2Sustain, and ClimUrb International Workshop) and chapter overview Michaela Hordijk, Manoj Roy, David Hulme and Sally Cawood 2. The lived experience of climate change impacts and adaptation in low income settlements Manoj Roy, David Hulme, Michaela Hordijk and Sally Cawood Part 2: Vulnerability, Adaptation and the Built environment 3. Generations of Migrants and Natures of Slums: Distress, Vulnerability and a Lower Middle-Class in Bengaluru, India M.S. Sriram and Anirudh Krishna 4. Emerging practices of community adaptation within innovative water and climate change policies in Durban, South Africa Catherine Sutherland, Michaela Hordijk and Dianne Scott 5. A Built Environment Perspective on Adaptation in Urban Informal Settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh Afroza Parvin, Ashraful Alam, and Rumana Asad 6. Health implications of climate change for dwellers of low-income settlements in Tanzania Iddi Mwanyoka, Kelvin Haule, Riziki Shemdoe and Manoj Roy Part 3: Understanding Change and Adaptation: From institutional interface to co-production 7. Urban Livelihoods in an Era of Climate Change: Household Adaptations and their Limitations in Dhaka, Bangladesh Nicola Banks 8. Facing the Floods: Community Responses to increased rainfall in Guarulhos, Brazil and Arequipa, Peru Michaela A. Hordijk, Francine Van Den Brandeler and Maria Evangelina Fillipi 9. From asset vulnerability to asset planning: negotiating climate change adaptation solutions in an informal settlement in Cartagena, Colombia Alfredo Stein and Caroline Moser 10. Climate change and water scarcity: implications for the urban poor in coastal Bangladesh Aftab Opel Part 4: From Learning to Knowledge, Innovation to Action 11. Innovation in the Context of Climate Change: What is happening in India’s informal economy? Barbara Harriss-White and Gilbert Rodrigo 12. Can asset transfer promote adaptation amongst the extreme urban poor? Lessons from the DSK-Shiree programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh Syed Hashemi, Sally Cawood, Noara Razzak, Mamun Ur Rashid and Manoj Roy 13. Redefining Risk from Below: Political Responses to Landslide Risk Assessments in the Informal Settlements of Bogota, Colombia Arabella Fraser 14. Mobilising Adaptation: Community Knowledge and Urban Governance Innovations in Indore, India Eric K Chu Part 5: Conclusion 15. Conclusion: Re-Conceptualising Adaptation and Comparing Experiences David Hulme, Manoj Roy, Michaela Hordijk and Sally Cawood