Climate change increases the chances of worsening drought, with warmer temperatures set to increase water demands and evaporation, putting greater stress on water supplies and the agricultural sector.
The quest to understand how urban neighbourhood characteristics impact on crime has become an important theoretical and policy-relevant component of contemporary criminology thinking and a potential gauge for the relative value of informal and for
People living in informal urban settings in Latin America and the Caribbean are highly vulnerable to water-related risks associated with climate change. They are also effective incubators of bottom-up, grassroots-driven mechanisms of adaptation.
Decentralized renewable energy technologies can help address vulnerability, food security, health, education, and rural-urban migration and resettlement.
Together, rapid population growth, increased commercialization and exploitation of aquatic resources, deforestation and pollution, and encroachments on communally owned resources by national and transnational private interests are placing the worl