Climate Change, Health, and Adaptation in African Informal Settlements: Living with Extremes on the Margins (Routledge Studies in Climate Justice)

This transdisciplinary book explores how climate extremes - specifically extreme heat and urban flooding - are experienced, governed, and resisted within African informal settlements. Focusing on the nexus of environmental stress, public health inequities, infrastructural fragility, and adaptation politics, the authors unpack how these converging crises disproportionately affect marginalised urban populations and expose the limitations of dominant climate governance models.The book takes Cape Town as its principal empirical site, particularly the informal settlements of Khayelitsha, Philippi, and Masiphumelele.These settlements serve as “urban laboratories” through which the book investigates the everyday, embodied, and gendered impacts of climate change.While deeply grounded in the Cape Town context, the book also draws comparative insights from similarly climate-vulnerable and socially complex informal settlements in Lagos (Makoko), Nairobi (Kibera and Mukuru), Accra (Agbogbloshie),