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 |
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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 |
Notes |
Print version record |
Subject |
Emergency management -- Africa -- Case studies
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Risk management -- Africa -- Case studies
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Disaster relief -- Africa -- Case studies
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Emergency management.
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Urbanization.
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Urban health.
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Disaster Planning
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Urbanization
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Urban Health
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Relief Work
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disaster planning.
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urbanization.
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NATURE -- Natural Disasters.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Disasters & Disaster Relief.
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Urbanization
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Urban health
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Disaster relief
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Emergency management
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Risk management
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Stadt
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Katastrophenschutz
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Africa
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Afrika
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books
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Case studies
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Electronic book
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Author |
Pelling, Mark, 1967-
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Wisner, Ben.
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ISBN |
9781849771016 |
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1849771014 |
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9781441606969 |
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1441606963 |
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9781844075560 |
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1844075567 |
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1282100971 |
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9781282100978 |
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