书目名称 | Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Africa |
副标题 | Context, Facets and |
编辑 | Innocent Chirisa,Andrew Chigudu |
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概述 | Contextualises resilience and sustainability to Africa as a Global South point of reference.Appeals to a transdisciplinary audience including engineers, planners, geographers, policy-makers, sociologi |
丛书名称 | Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements |
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描述 | Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development. This book presents a resilience framework for sustainable cities and towns in Africa. The rise in informal settlements is due to the urban planning practices in most African cities that rarely reflect the realities of urban life and environment for urban development. Aspects of places, people and process are central to the concept of urban resilience and sustainable urban growth. It stems from the observation that urban vulnerability is on the increase in Zimbabwe and beyond. In history, disasters have adversely affected nations across the world, inflicting wide ranging losses on one hand while on the other hand creating development opportunities for urban communities. Cooperation in disaster management is a strategy for minimising losses and uplifting the affected urban settlements. The significance of urban planning and design in the growth and development of sustainableurban centres is well documented. Urbanisation has brought with it challenges that most developing countries such as Zimbabwe are not equipped to handle. This has been accompanied by problems such as |
出版日期 | Book 2021 |
关键词 | Urban Land Dynamics; Urban Development; Disaster Management; Urban Resilience; Climate-Resilient Infrast |
版次 | 1 |
doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3288-4 |
isbn_softcover | 978-981-16-3290-7 |
isbn_ebook | 978-981-16-3288-4Series ISSN 2198-2546 Series E-ISSN 2198-2554 |
issn_series | 2198-2546 |
copyright | The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Singapor |