Articles included in this issue are: Seeing a disaster as an opportunity-harnessing the energy of disaster survivors for change by Diance Archer and Somsook Boonyabancha Local disaster risk reduction in Latin American urban areas by Jorgelina Hardoy & Gustavo Pandiella et.al. Constraints of pro-poor climate change adaption in Chittagong city by Ronju Ahammad. Neglecting the urban poor in Bangladesh: Research, policy and action in the context of climate change by Nicola Banks, Manoj Roy and David Hulme and etc.