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Disaster risk reduction : cases from urban Africa / edited by Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner ; with foreword by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.
- Title
- Disaster risk reduction : cases from urban Africa / edited by Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner ; with foreword by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.
- Publication
- London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
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- Description
- xvi, 224 p. : ill., maps; 24 cm.
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Contents
- Urbanization and disaster risk reduction in Africa -- Urbanization, 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 -- 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 Abdoulaye Ndiaye -- Disaster risk reduction in Algiers, Algeria / Djillali Benouar and Yamina Ait Meziane -- A vision for a safer urban Africa -- Towards a safer urban future : conclusions and recommendations / Djillali Benouar ... [et al.].
- ISBN
- 9781844075560 (hardback)
- 1844075567 (hardback)
- LCCN
- 2008036287
- Owning Institutions
- Columbia University Libraries