Informal Urbanism and the Hard Question of the Anthropocene

According to estimates by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and the International Organization for Migration, "Between 50 million and 200 million people-mainly subsistence farmers and fishermen-could be displaced by 2050 because of climate change" (...

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Published inJournal of West Indian literature Vol. 24; no. 2; pp. 46 - 62
Main Author Prieto, Eric
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Kingston Journal of West Indian Literature 01.11.2016
Subjects
Children
Cities
Climate change
Displaced persons
Ecocriticism
Environmental impact
Globalization
Housing
Humanities
Land settlement
Morris, Ian
Urbanism
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Summary:According to estimates by the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security and the International Organization for Migration, "Between 50 million and 200 million people-mainly subsistence farmers and fishermen-could be displaced by 2050 because of climate change" (Davenport and Robertson 2016). Many of those displaced people, indeed probably the vast majority, will find themselves in the nearest city that offers better opportunities for survival. [...]although de Jesus, who spends every available hour of every day wandering the city in search of paper and metals to recycle, shows no particular distaste for the work, she brings in so little money that she is not always able to feed herself or her children. [...]nature and the urban mangrove In order to develop this point, it will be useful to look at Patrick Chamoiseau's Texaco, which comes very close to Patterson's novel in its interest in preserving a more traditional, sustainable relationship with the natural environment, while also maintaining a more Brand-like emphasis on the important transitional role that squatter communities play in the process of urbanization.
ISSN:0258-8501
2414-3030