'Informal Housing: Asia'
Article by Erhard Berner in the International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Vol 4.
Description
'International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home is the first international foundational reference source for housing professionals. This comprehensive work is edited by distinguished researcher and Professor Susan J. Smith, together with Marja Elsinga, Ong Seow Eng, Lorna Fox O'Mahony, and Susan Wacher, and a multi-disciplinary editorial team comprising 20 world-class scholars.'
'This seven-volume set contains over 500 entries, grouped into seven thematic sections including methods and approaches; economics and finance; environments; home and homelessness; institutions; policy; and welfare and well-being.'
Citation:
Berner, E. (2012) 'Informal Housing: Asia', in: Susan J. Smith, Marja Elsinga, Lorna Fox O’Mahony, Ong Seow Eng, Susan Wachter, Richard Ronald (eds) International Encyclopedia of Housing and Home, Vol 4, pp. 56–62. Oxford: Elsevier.
About the author
| Dr. Erhard Berner is Associate Professor of Development Sociology. He has done extensive research on urban poverty and community responses in the Philippines and elsewhere, and published a book and numerous articles on the subject. He has also served as a consultant to UN-Habitat, the World Bank, international and Dutch NGOs, and government institutions in the fields of urban poverty, housing, basic services, and small business promotion. Current research focuses on local effects of globalization, urban governance, microenterprises and poverty alleviation. Teaching experience includes universities and institutes in the Philippines, Indonesia, Uganda, Namibia, Costa Rica, the Czech Republic and Germany. |
Publication date: Wednesday, 25 July 2012
