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cases from urban Africa

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Earthscan
Language
English
Pages
224

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Subjects

Emergency management, Risk management, Case studies, Disaster relief, Africa, environmental conditions, Urbanization, Urban health, Disaster Planning, Urban Health, Relief Work, Gestion du risque, Études de cas, Secours aux victimes de catastrophes, Gestion des situations d'urgence, Urbanisation, Santé urbaine, Disaster planning, NATURE, Natural Disasters, SOCIAL SCIENCE, Disasters & Disaster Relief, Stadt, Katastrophenschutz, Nature, Natural disasters

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Africa
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Table of Contents

Urbanization and disaster risk reduction in Africa
Urbanisation, human security and disaster risk in Africa / Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner
African cities of hope and risk / Ben Wisner and Mark Pelling
Reducing urban disaster risk in Africa / Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner
Case studies of urban disaster risk in Africa
Integrated disaster risk and environmental health monitoring: greater Accra metropolitan area, Ghana / Jacob Songsore ... [et al.]
Road traffic accidents as an everyday hazard: Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya / Andre Yitambe ... [et al.]
Fire-risk in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa / Robyn Pharoah
A city of contrasts
Building disaster resilient communities: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Robert B. Kiunsi ... [et al.]
History, governance and the millennium development goals: flood risk reduction in Saint-Louis, Senegal / Khady Diagne and and Abdoulaye Ndiaye
Disaster risk reduction in Algiers, Algeria / Djillali Benouar and Yamina Ait Meziane
A vision for a safer urban Africa
Toward a safer urban future: conclusions and recommendations / Djillali Benouar ... [et al.].

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references and index.

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Sterling, VA
Genre
Case studies.

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Dewey Decimal Class
363.34/6096091732
Library of Congress
HV551.5.A35 D57 2008, HV551.5, HV551.5.A35 D57 2009, HV551.5.A35 D57 2009eb

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p. cm.
Number of pages
224

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OL17101601M
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disasterriskredu00pell
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9781844075560
LCCN
2008036287
OCLC/WorldCat
320903577, 244354529
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4772687

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