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Urban Environments in Africa : A Critical Analysis of Environmental Politics.

Av: Materialtyp: TextUtgivningsuppgift: Bristol : Policy Press, 2016Datum för upphovsrätt: ©2016Utgåva: 1st edBeskrivning: 1 online resource (230 pages)Innehållstyp:
  • text
Medietyp:
  • computer
Bärartyp:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447322948
Genre/form: DDK-klassifikation:
  • 307.76096
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Innehåll:
Intro -- URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN AFRICA -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary of foreign terms -- Note on the author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Urban environments in Africa -- Introduction -- Africa's cities: geographical scope -- Analyzing Africa's urban environments -- A theoretical framework for Africa's urban environments -- Conclusion -- 1. The experts -- Introduction -- Scientists, scholars, policymakers, and planners on African urban environments -- Planning and Nairobi's environment -- Implementing Nairobi metro 2030 -- Conclusion -- 2. The past -- Introduction -- Pre-colonial urban environments in Africa -- Africa's colonial urban environments -- Lusaka past and present -- Conclusion -- 3. The cityscape -- Introduction -- Urban political ecology, landscapes, and structures of feeling -- Cityscapes in Africa in physical and metaphysical contexts -- Zanzibar's cityscape and socio-natural structures of feeling -- Mji wa Kusadikika (city of make-believe) -- Place-names, trees, socio-nature, and structures of feeling in Zanzibar -- Conclusion -- 4. The artists -- Introduction -- Ecocriticism and Africa's urban environments -- Four visions of urban wastes -- Dakar -- Conclusion -- 5. The grassroots -- Introduction -- The grassroots and the politics of Africa's urban environment -- Cape Town -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Urban environments, politics, and policies -- Introduction -- Examples of interactionist urban political ecologies in practice -- Other related approaches -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.
Sammanfattning: Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.
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Intro -- URBAN ENVIRONMENTS IN AFRICA -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- List of abbreviations -- Glossary of foreign terms -- Note on the author -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction. Urban environments in Africa -- Introduction -- Africa's cities: geographical scope -- Analyzing Africa's urban environments -- A theoretical framework for Africa's urban environments -- Conclusion -- 1. The experts -- Introduction -- Scientists, scholars, policymakers, and planners on African urban environments -- Planning and Nairobi's environment -- Implementing Nairobi metro 2030 -- Conclusion -- 2. The past -- Introduction -- Pre-colonial urban environments in Africa -- Africa's colonial urban environments -- Lusaka past and present -- Conclusion -- 3. The cityscape -- Introduction -- Urban political ecology, landscapes, and structures of feeling -- Cityscapes in Africa in physical and metaphysical contexts -- Zanzibar's cityscape and socio-natural structures of feeling -- Mji wa Kusadikika (city of make-believe) -- Place-names, trees, socio-nature, and structures of feeling in Zanzibar -- Conclusion -- 4. The artists -- Introduction -- Ecocriticism and Africa's urban environments -- Four visions of urban wastes -- Dakar -- Conclusion -- 5. The grassroots -- Introduction -- The grassroots and the politics of Africa's urban environment -- Cape Town -- Conclusion -- Conclusion. Urban environments, politics, and policies -- Introduction -- Examples of interactionist urban political ecologies in practice -- Other related approaches -- Conclusion -- References -- Index.

Explores the impact of Africa's rapidly growing urban population on local resources and the environment, acknowledging the clash between Western focus on sustainable development and the lived realities of residents of often poor, informal settlements.

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