Sub-Saharan African Sustainable Development
Climate Change, Energy, and Urbanization
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Beschreibung
Focused on urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, this book deals with current challenges facing Africa's rapidly-growing cities. This book presents three studies conducted by Canadian researchers that explore the socioeconomic and political impacts of climate change, unplanned urban development, and renewable energy in the context of sub-Saharan African cities. This book brings together a wide range of facts and insights related to urbanization and climate change. It is relevant far beyond the study context of sub-Saharan African cities, with takeaways that can inform future research into the urban geographies and political ecologies of the developing world.
Focused on urbanization in sub-Saharan Africa, this book deals with current challenges facing Africa's rapidly-growing cities. This book presents three studies conducted by Canadian researchers that explore the socioeconomic and political impacts of climate change, unplanned urban development, and renewable energy in the context of sub-Saharan African cities. This book brings together a wide range of facts and insights related to urbanization and climate change. It is relevant far beyond the study context of sub-Saharan African cities, with takeaways that can inform future research into the urban geographies and political ecologies of the developing world.
Covers the social and environmental sustainability of current pressures in urban Africa Highlights the importance and potential challenges to sustainable development in sub-Saharan Africa Applies an urban political ecology theoretical lens in several topic areas to the sub-Saharan African context
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Ria Perrault
Themen in »Sub-Saharan African Sustainable Development«
African Sustainable Development Urbanization Climate Change Adaptation Sub-Saharan Africa African Urban Development Informal Settlements Urban Political Ecology Renewable Energy Urban Heat Island Post-Colonial Urbanization