Africa in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Geographical Perspective

ISBN-13: 9781138066809 / Angielski / Twarda / 2017 / 226 str.

Leo Charles Zulu; Cristina D'Alessandro

Opis

The book presents contributions inspired by a desire by the contributors to contribute a geographical approach to analyse African challenges and solutions during the Millennium Development Goals and prospects for development in the context of the Sustainable Development Goals and their implementation on the African continent. This book was originally published as a special issue of African Geographical Review.

Spis treści

Introduction – From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Africa in the post-2015 development Agenda. A geographical perspective   1. Advancing African agency in the new 2030 transformative development agenda   2. From global goals to regional strategies: towards an African approach to SDGs   3. Can using geographical factors leverage private equity to deliver sustainable development results?   4. Reproducing spaces of embeddedness through Islamic NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: reflections on the post-2015 development agenda   5. Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal   6. MDGs to SDGs – new goals, same gaps: the continued absence of urban food security in the post-2015 global development agenda   7. The SDG13 to combat climate change: an opportunity for Africa to become a trailblazer?   8. Gender equality as a means to women empowerment? Consensus, challenges and prospects for post-2015 development agenda in Africa   9. Defining and measuring water access: lessons from Tanzania for moving forward in the post-Millennium Development Goal era  10. Ecological sanitation: a sustainable goal with local choices. A case study from Taita Hills, Kenya   11. The Millennium Development Goals and Chinese involvement in French-speaking West Africa: which contributions for which issues?   12. Understanding the spatial context of sustainable urban health in Africa for the SDGs: Some lessons from the corridors of deprivation in Ilorin, Nigeria    13. The marginalization of walking, the Achilles’ heel of sustainable mobility policies in Oran (Algeria)

O autorze

Leo Charles Zulu is an Associate Professor in the Department Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. He was also the Editor of the African Geographical Review journal produced by the Africa Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. An interdisciplinary scholar, he has considerable professional and research experience on diverse issues including natural resources management, community resource management, forestry/conservation, solid biomass energy, climate change adaptation, health geography including HIV/AIDS, and international development, primarily in Africa. He also has more than 20 years of professional experience on environment and development work in Malawi and southern Africa. Cristina D'Alessandro is a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa, Canada and an Associated Researcher at the UMR PRODIG, Paris, France. Previously she served as a Knowledge Expert at the African Capacity Building Foundation in Harare, Zimbabwe and as a professor at Sciences-Po Paris and at the University Lumière Lyon 2. As an international scholar with experience in Africa, Europe and America, she holds a number of board positions and serves as an advisor for international organizations/institutions.