What does this research mean for the field?

Climate change exacerbates inequalities in urban informal systems, and achieving resilience requires governance structures that integrate informality and institutionalize coproduction rather than relying primarily on technical fixes. Novelty: ClaimNovelty.SYNTHESIS. Consensus alignment: ConsensusAlignment.NEUTRAL.

What question did this study set out to answer?

To examine how climate change intersects with urban informality and evaluate governance frameworks that can deliver equitable resilience.

September 3, 2026Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOpen Access

Urban Informality and Climate Change: Precarity, Governance, and Pathways to Resilience

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DCDavid Corbett PSPourya Salehi DRDebra C. Roberts

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Review reveals climate risks exacerbate precarity in informal settlements, highlighting that effective adaptation requires recognizing informal governance and coproduction rather than technical fixes.

Key Points

To examine how climate change intersects with urban informality and evaluate governance frameworks that can deliver equitable resilience.
Literature review analyzing empirical studies on climate impacts, community-based adaptation, and nature-based solutions in urban informal settings.
Theoretical synthesis integrating frameworks on urban informality, precarity, marginality, and multilevel governance.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier by exacerbating structural insecurity and compounding pressures from climate-induced rural-to-urban migration.
Interventions frequently trigger maladaptation, causing forced evictions, green gentrification, and the transfer of adaptation costs onto low-income populations.
Effective resilience demands collaborative governance mechanisms, including middle-out and multilevel coproduction, that treat informality as an essential mode of urbanization.

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Corbett et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a99351f636c6408cfa7d10c https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112624-023844

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September 3, 2026Annual Review of Environment and ResourcesOpen Access

Urban Informality and Climate Change: Precarity, Governance, and Pathways to Resilience

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Authors

DCDavid Corbett PSPourya Salehi DRDebra C. Roberts

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Overview

Key Points

To examine how climate change intersects with urban informality and evaluate governance frameworks that can deliver equitable resilience.
Literature review analyzing empirical studies on climate impacts, community-based adaptation, and nature-based solutions in urban informal settings.
Theoretical synthesis integrating frameworks on urban informality, precarity, marginality, and multilevel governance.
Climate change acts as a threat multiplier by exacerbating structural insecurity and compounding pressures from climate-induced rural-to-urban migration.
Interventions frequently trigger maladaptation, causing forced evictions, green gentrification, and the transfer of adaptation costs onto low-income populations.
Effective resilience demands collaborative governance mechanisms, including middle-out and multilevel coproduction, that treat informality as an essential mode of urbanization.

Cite This Study

Corbett et al. (2026) studied this question.

synapsesocial.com/papers/6a99351f636c6408cfa7d10c https://doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-112624-023844

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