1st Edition
Climate Change, Health, and Adaptation in African Informal Settlements Living with Extremes on the Margins
1. Framing Climate Extremes and Urban Informality: Challenges, Vulnerabilities, and Pathways to Adaptation 2. Navigating The Impacts of Extreme Heat in Cape Town’s Informal Settlements 3. Climate Change and Extreme Heat Policies in South Africa: A Governance Critique 4. Hydrocitizenship and Flooding on the Margins: Lived Experiences and Everyday Adaptation in Cape Town’s Rough Neighbourhoods 5. Embodied Floods: Health, Gender, and Adaptation in the Face of Urban Flooding in Cape Town’s Rough Neighbourhoods 6. Spatiotemporal Analysis of Informal Settlement Dynamics Using Deep Learning and Sentinel-2 Time Series: A Cape Town Case Study 7. Uncertainty-Informed Bayesian Flood Hazard Mapping for Cost-Effective Municipal Planning: A Spatial Decision-Support Framework for eThekwini 8. Towards Just and Inclusive Climate Adaptation – Policy Pathways and Future Directions for African Informal Settlements
Biography
Johannes Bhanye is an Urban Planner and Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, where his work focuses on climate-induced disasters, hydro-citizenship, urban flood adaptation, and adaptive governance in informal settlements
Vuyisile Moyo is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, working on Heat Adaptation in Cape Town informal settlements.
Collins Matiza is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Climate Risk Lab under the African Climate and Development Initiative (ACDI), University of Cape Town, where his work equips communities and decision-makers with the spatial intelligence needed to adapt to a changing climate.
