Prosperity and Inequality in Metro Manila: Reflections on Housing the Poor, Climate Risk, and Governance of Cities

Prosperity and Inequality in Metro Manila: Reflections on Housing the Poor, Climate Risk, and Governance of Cities

Wallerstein (1979, p. 119) posed these intellectual–moral questions more than three decades ago: ‘I would phrase the intellectual questions of our time—which are the moral questions of our time—as follows: (1) Why is there hunger amidst plenty, and poverty amidst prosperity? (2) Why the many who are...

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Main Author: Porio, Emma E
Format: text
Published: Archīum Ateneo 2016
Subjects:
Disaster Risk
Social Housing
Informal Settler
Flooding Disaster
Gross Domestic Product Growth
Emergency and Disaster Management
Sociology
Online Access:https://archium.ateneo.edu/sa-faculty-pubs/8
https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1057/978-1-137-57654-5_9
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Institution: Ateneo De Manila University
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Summary:Wallerstein (1979, p. 119) posed these intellectual–moral questions more than three decades ago: ‘I would phrase the intellectual questions of our time—which are the moral questions of our time—as follows: (1) Why is there hunger amidst plenty, and poverty amidst prosperity? (2) Why the many who are afflicted do not rise up against the few who are privileged, and smite them?’

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