John Abbott

Green Infrastructure for Sustainable Urban Development in Africa (eBook, ePUB)

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Green infrastructure is physical infrastructure which balances the needs of societies, economies and the natural environment. Africa's fast-growing towns and cities have the opportunity to build green infrastructure because to a large extent they do not have existing sunken investments in unsustainable infrastructure, as Western towns and cities do.

This book shows for the first time how green infrastructure can work in an African urban context, using Ethiopian experiences which align infrastructure development with African society and culture. Indigenous African solutions can mediate the use of natural resources including land, energy and water to provide economic growth with social equity.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 512
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. Juli 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781136491382
• Artikelnr.: 38268499

Autorenporträt

John Abbott is an international consultant specialising in the management of urban infrastructure, most recently with the government of Ethiopia. Over his career he has worked in local government, NGOs, the private sector and academia, where he was Professor of Urban Engineering at the University of Cape Town, South Africa.