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  • Sustainable Development Goals and Urban Health

    Strides, Challenges and Way Forward for Poor Neighborhoods

    Edited by Abraham R. Matamanda, Verna Nel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    The main aim of this book is to understand the interplay between the SDGs and urban health. This is a critical issue in cities, considering the complexity of health issues and how they transcend most SDGs. However, the SDGs are premised on a broad set of generalised indicators and targets. Simultaneously, local contexts differ; thus, a one-size-fits-all understanding of urban health problems is ... Read more

    $179.09 USD

  • Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa

    Edited by Abraham R. Matamanda, James Chakwizira, Kudzai Chatiza, Verna Nel ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on ... Read more

    $134.09 USD

  • Local Responses to Mine Closure in South Africa

    Dependencies and Social Disruption

    Edited by Sethulego Matebesi, Lochner Marais, Verna Nel ...
    Series series Routledge Studies of the Extractive Industries and Sustainable Development
    This book investigates mine closure and local responses in South Africa, linking dependencies and social disruption.Mine closure presents a major challenge to the mining industry and government policymakers globally, but particularly in the Global South. South Africa is experiencing notable numbers of mine closures, and this book explores the notion of social disruption, a concept often applied to ... Read more

    $64.99 USD

  • Land-Use Management to Support Sustainable Settlements in South Africa

    by Verna Nel, Stuart Paul Denoon-Stevens ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Sustainable Urbanism
    This book provides a theoretical and practical foundation needed to change the practice of land use management in Southern Africa.It presents an overview of alternative land use management system for South African municipalities that is economically, socially, and environmentally more sustainable than many of the land use schemes in effect at present. Land use management is a component of spatial ... Read more

    $60.99 USD

  • Urban Geography in Postcolonial Zimbabwe

    Paradigms and Perspectives for Sustainable Urban Planning and Governance

    Edited by Abraham R. Matamanda, Verna Nel, Innocent Chirisa ...
    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This interdisciplinary book provides a cross-sectoral and multi-dimensional exploration and assessment of the urban geography perspectives in Zimbabwe. Drawing on work from different disciplines, the book not only contributes to academia but also seeks to inform urban policy with the view of contributing to the national aspirations of Zimbabwe attaining middle-income status by 2030. Adopting a ... Read more

    $107.09 USD

  • Space and planning in secondary cities: Reflections from South Africa

    by Lochner Marais, Verna Nel ...
    Much of the urban research focuses on the large metropolitan areas in South Africa. This book assesses spatial planning in the second-tier cities of the country. Secondary cities are vital as they perform essential regional, and in some cases, global economic roles and help to distribute the population of a country more evenly across its surface. Apartheid planning left South African cities ... Read more

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    by Doctor Edgar Pieterse, Susan Parnell ...
    The facts of Africa's rapid urbanisation are startling. By 2030 African cities will have grown by more than 350 million people and over half the continent's population will be urban. Yet in the minds of policy makers, scholars and much of the general public, Africa remains a quintessentially rural place. This lack of awareness and robust analysis means it is difficult to make a policy case for a ... Read more

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Edited by Jeremiah O. Asaka, Alice A. Oluoko-Odingo ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Read more

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  • From Poverty to Power

    by Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Read more

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  • Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa

    Edited by Michael Addaney, Patrick Cobbinah ...
    Series series Routledge Research in Planning and Urban Design
    Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides a variety of conventional and emerging theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty, among others, within the context of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) in Africa.This ... Read more

    $59.99 USD

  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

    by David Booth, Diana Cammack ...
    Drawing on in-depth empirical research spanning a number of countries in Africa, Booth and Cammack's path-breaking book offers both an accessible overview of issues surrounding governance for development on the continent, whilst also offering a bold new alternative. In doing so, they controversially argue that externally imposed 'good governance' approaches make unrealistic assumptions about the ... Read more

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  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Edited by Ntombini Marrengane, Sylvia Croese ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Read more

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