Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

ISBN-13: 9781844075560 / Angielski / Twarda / 2008 / 240 str.

Mark Pelling; Mark Pelling; Ben Wisner

Opis

This title is packed with original research and offers an innovative way of thinking about the reduction of risk in rapidly urbanizing cities across the globe. It is ideal for professional, researchers and policy makers.

Spis treści

Introduction * Conceptualising Urbanisation, Disaster Risk and Climate Change * Part I * A Safer Urban Future for Africa? * A Tool Kit for Urban Risk Reduction * Part II * Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Building Disaster Resilient Communities * Algiers, Algeria: Evaluating Seismic Vulnerability * Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: Environmental Health and Disaster Monitoring * Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya: Road Traffic Accidents as an Everyday Hazard * Saint Louis, Senegal: Multi-actor Governance for Flood Risk Reduction * Cape Town, South Africa: Fire Risk in Informal Settlements * Part III * A Vision of a Safer Urban Africa * Index

O autorze

Mark Pelling is Reader in Human Geography at King's College London and author of The Vulnerability of Cities (2003). Ben Wisner is retired Professor of Geography and Director of International Studies at CSU at Long Beach, California and is co-editor of Towards a New Map of Africa (2005).