{"id":56,"date":"2017-06-07T11:57:42","date_gmt":"2017-06-07T11:57:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/?page_id=56"},"modified":"2017-06-07T15:01:57","modified_gmt":"2017-06-07T15:01:57","slug":"climurb","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/climurb\/","title":{"rendered":"ClimUrb: Poverty and Climate Change in Urban Bangladesh"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">Launched in 2009, ClimUrb is a major research platform on urban poverty and climate change at University of Manchester, UK in collaboration with BRAC University, Bangladesh.<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">In 2013, the ClimUrb team has completed an ESRC-DFID sponsored project on \u2018Community and Institutional Responses to the Challenges facing Poor Urban People in Bangladesh in an Era of Climate Change\u2019. The research had four objectives:<\/span><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">To examine the key challenges facing poor urban people in Bangladesh and understand how these challenges are compounded by climate change. <\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">To investigate current adaptive practices by individuals and communities to build, protect and maintain their livelihoods in the face of these challenges.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">To examine the institutional structures which mediate the urban poor\u2019s livelihood practices, and assess their comparability across a selection of urban contexts in Bangladesh.<\/span><\/li>\n<li style=\"text-align: justify\"><span style=\"font-size: 10pt\">To provide policy relevant findings that help public, private and non-profit agencies contribute more effectively to support the urban poor, particularly with adaptation to climate change.<\/span><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Launched in 2009, ClimUrb is a major research platform on urban poverty and climate change at University of Manchester, UK in collaboration with BRAC University, Bangladesh. In 2013, the ClimUrb team has completed an ESRC-DFID sponsored project on \u2018Community and &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/climurb\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":714,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-56","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/714"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":157,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/56\/revisions\/157"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/ecopoor\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}