Urban Climate Resilience in Southeast Asia

Amrita Daniere is Vice Principal, Academic and Dean of the University of Toronto at Mississauga. She teaches courses on the geography of Southeast Asia, environmental issues in the Global South, research design and research methods, community-based service learning and urban planning workshop Professor Danieres research focuses on community-based approaches to environmental issues in cities of the Global South. She has published extensively on a planning in cities of Southeast Asian and Latin America and is currently the co-director of a multi-year partnership network project called the Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Project (funded by SSHRC and IDRC). Dr. Matthias Garschagen is the Head of Vulnerability Assessment, Risk Management and Adaptive Planning (VARMAP) at United Nations University, Institute for Environment and Human Security (UN-EHS) and a Honorary Professor at RMIT University, Melbourne, in the School of Global, Urban and Social Studies. His main research focus is on urban vulnerability, social resilience and climate change adaptation, particularly in Asia. He serves as a Lead Author in the IPCCs Special Report on Ocean and the Cryosphere in a Changing Climate (SROCC) and the Sixth Assessment Report (AR6).

Why Focusing on Urban Climate Change Resilience in Southeast Asia Is Relevant and Urgent.- Part 1: Understanding Vulnerability: Neighbourhoods, Cities, and Nations Beyond.- Bridging Systems and People-centred Approaches in Urban Vulnerability Research: Insights for Resilience from Dawei, Myanmar.-Water Access and Resilience to Climate-induced Droughts in the Thai Secondary City of Khon Kaen: Unequal and Unjust Vulnerability.- Migrating Toward Vulnerabilities: The Impacts of Structural Violence on Myanmar Migrants in Phuket, Thailand.