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

• 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
• Institution: Ateneo De Manila University

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...