Road safety is a major development, public health and transportation problem in many countries. Road traffic injuries take a way the human and financial resources that countries need for development. This book, based on a Ph.D degree thesis by the author, provides a comprehensive analysis of road safety policy in Kenya. The book focuses on three key issues: spatio-temporal patterns of road traffic injuries, selected underlying socio-economic dynamics and effectiveness of intervention measures.

Climate change is one of the multiple contemporary environmental and development problems that human societies, including policy makers, have to respond to. Global level negotiations and programmes in climate are important but there is a need to translate them into operational plans of actions and actual activities at local country and urban level. An understanding of the perception of the seriousness of the problem of climate change is important in the overall programme of developing and initiating interventions at both local and global levels. This book provides an analysis of the...