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Title Disaster risk reduction : cases from urban Africa / edited by Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner ; with foreword by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka
Published London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, ©2009

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Description 1 online resource (xvi, 224 pages) : illustrations, maps
Contents Contents; List of Boxes, Figures and Tables; List of Acronyms and Abbreviations; Foreword: Risks of Urbanization; Part I Urbanization and Disaster Risk Reduction in Africa; Chapter 1 Introduction: Urbanization, Human Security and Disaster Risk in Africa; Chapter 2 African Cities of Hope and Risk; Chapter 3 Reducing Urban Disaster Risk in Africa; Part II Case Studies of Urban Disaster Risk in Africa; Chapter 4 Integrated Disaster Risk and Environmental Health Monitoring: Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana; Chapter 5 Road Traffic Accidents as an Everyday Hazard: Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya
Chapter 6 Fire Risk in Informal Settlements in Cape Town, South AfricaChapter 7 Building Disaster-Resilient Communities: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania; Chapter 8 History, Governance and the Millennium Development Goals: Flood Risk Reduction in Saint-Louis, Senegal; Chapter 9 Disaster Risk Reduction in Algiers, Algeria; Part III A Vision for a Safer Urban Africa; Chapter 10 Towards a Safer Urban Future: Conclusions and R
Summary Published with ProVention Consortium UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall Development Studies Institute London School of Economics 'At last a book that recognizes the impacts of disasters on Africa's 350 million urban dwellers including the many disasters that get overlooked and go unrecorded. But also a book that through careful case studies shows what creates disaster risk and what local measures can be taken to address it.' David Satte
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Emergency management -- Africa -- Case studies
Risk management -- Africa -- Case studies
Disaster relief -- Africa -- Case studies
Emergency management.
Urbanization.
Urban health.
Disaster Planning
Urbanization
Urban Health
Relief Work
disaster planning.
urbanization.
NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
Urbanization
Urban health
Disaster relief
Emergency management
Risk management
Stadt
Katastrophenschutz
Africa
Afrika
Genre/Form Electronic books
Case studies
Form Electronic book
Author Pelling, Mark, 1967-
Wisner, Ben.
ISBN 9781849771016
1849771014
9781441606969
1441606963
9781844075560
1844075567
1282100971
9781282100978