Urban resilience and justice: Exploring the tensions, building upon the connections

Abstract

The conclusion reflects on the theoretical, conceptual, methodological and empirical breadth of the contributing chapters and returns to the question outlined at the beginning of the book: what is the relationship, emerging connections and tensions between environmental justice and resilience in urban areas of the Global South? As explored throughout the chapters, in the face of environmental injustices, people develop survival strategies to cope. These actions might lead to both positive and negative outcomes for resilience. Resilience can be a policy objective enacted by governments in the face of shocks and stresses, and environmental justice and resilience might further have a co-function, as justice is required for resilience.