COVID-19, Slums and Resilience

Amaia Celaya Alvarez, Essay, Middle Density, Politics and economics, Urban Paradigms

Accessibility, Agenda, Built environment, Cities, City challenge, COVID-19, Crisis, Economy, Essay, Facilities, Global Awareness, Health, Health crisis, Human rights, Informal settlements, Infrastructure, Opportunities, Resilience, Resilient cities, Slums, Social sustainability, Sustainable Development, Transformation, Urban policies, Well-being

In the world of disaster risk reduction and resilience, it is always said that crises should be windows of opportunity; although when we are immersed in one of those crises, as is the case of the current global emergency of COVID- 19, it is really difficult to think this way, especially in slums, now seriously threatened in Africa, Asia and Latin America and the Caribbean.