Manoj Roy is Lecturer in Sustainability at Lancaster Environment Centre, Lancaster University, UK. Sally Cawood is a doctoral researcher at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK.Michaela Hordijk is Assistant Professor of International Development Studies at the University of Amsterdam, the Netherlands and at UNESCO-IHE Institute for Water Education, Delft, the Netherlands.David Hulme is Professor of Development Studies at the Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, UK.

• Part 1: Urban Poverty and Climate Change –An Overview1. Introduction: A short positioning (referring ClimUrb and Change2Sustain, and ClimUrb International Workshop) and chapter overview 2. The lived experience of climate change impacts and adaptation in low income settlements Part 2: Vulnerability, Adaptation and the Built environment 3. Generations of Migrants and Natures of Slums: Distress, Vulnerability and a Lower Middle-Class in Bengaluru, India 4. Emerging practices of community adaptation within innovative water and climate change policies in Durban, South Africa 5. A Built Environment Perspective on Adaptation in Urban Informal Settlements, Khulna, Bangladesh 6. Health implications of climate change for dwellers of low-income settlements in Tanzania Part 3: Understanding Change and Adaptation: From institutional interface to co-production 7. Urban Livelihoods in an Era of Climate Change: Household Adaptations and their Limitations in Dhaka, Bangladesh 8. Facing the Floods: Community Responses to increased rainfall in Guarulhos, Brazil and Arequipa, Peru 9. From asset vulnerability to asset planning: negotiating climate change adaptation solutions in an informal settlement in Cartagena, Colombia 10. Climate change and water scarcity: implications for the urban poor in coastal Bangladesh Part 4: From Learning to Knowledge, Innovation to Action 11. Innovation in the Context of Climate Change: What is happening in India’s informal economy? 12. Can asset transfer promote adaptation amongst the extreme urban poor? Lessons from the DSK-Shiree programme in Dhaka, Bangladesh 13. Redefining Risk from Below: Political Responses to Landslide Risk Assessments in the Informal Settlements of Bogota, Colombia 14. Mobilising Adaptation: Community Knowledge and Urban Governance Innovations in Indore, IndiaPart 5: Conclusion15. Conclusion: Re-Conceptualising Adaptation and Comparing Experiences