Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa (eBook, PDF)

Redaktion: Addaney, Michael; Cobbinah, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Sustainable Urban Futures in Africa provides theoretical frameworks to inform understandings and responses to critical urban development issues such as urbanisation, climate change, housing/slum, informality, urban sprawl, urban ecosystem services and urban poverty within the context of the sustainable development goals in Africa.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 426
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000468144
• Artikelnr.: 63072663

Autorenporträt

Patrick Brandful Cobbinah is a senior lecturer in urban planning at the Melbourne School of Design and the Faculty of Architecture, Building and Planning at the University of Melbourne, Australia. He holds a PhD in Human Geography with emphasis on regional planning and resource conservation from Charles Sturt University, Australia. Patrick's background is in human geography with broad experience in urban and regional planning gained through teaching and research conducted at universities in Ghana and Australia. Michael Addaney is a lecturer in environmental policy and planning at the Department of Planning and Sustainability of the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Ghana, and Senior Research Associate at the Centre for Public Management and Governance at the University of Johannesburg, South Africa. He is also a Research Fellow of the Earth System Governance Project at Utrecht University, The Netherlands. Michael is an environmental social scientist whose expertise and current research interests are in the multifaceted and embedded relationships between humans and the environment, whether facilitated by institutions or by local organizations/communities, and the effects of this on public policy and planning processes and outcomes, particularly in relation to notions of rights, justice, and equity. Michael holds a PhD in environment and natural resources law from the Wuhan University, China, and a BSc in Development Planning from the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Ghana.

Inhaltsangabe

Part I: Conceptual and Theoretical Foundations; 1. Sustainable Urban
Futures in Africa: Concepts, Practices and Prospects (Patrick Brandful
Cobbinah and Michael Addaney); 2. Deconstructing Africa's Urban Space:
Sustainable Development and Spatial Planning Challenge (Patrick Brandful
Cobbinah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, and Marita Basson); 3. Tradition
Meets Modernity: Creation of Sustainable Urban Spaces in Africa (Bernard
Afiik Akanpabadai Akanbang, Millicent Awialie Akaateba, and Prosper
Issahaku Korah); 4. Local Activism and Climate Action in Africa: Protecting
the Environment as a Social Justice Imperative (Luckymore Matenga); 5.
Memories of Futures-Past and Visions of Future-Futures: An
Architecture-to-Backcasting Metaphor Approach Towards Sustainable City
Transitioning in Africa (Vipua Rukambe And Daniel Irurah); Part II: Land
Use and Ecological Integrity; 6. Towards Sustainable and Resilient Urban
Development: Rethinking Stormwater Management in Sub-Saharan African Cities
(Desmond Ofosu Anim, Eric Gaisie, and Abena Boatemaa Asare-Ansah); 7.
Monitoring changing land use-land cover change to reflect the impact of
urbanisation on environmental assets in Durban, South Africa (Bahle Mazeka,
Kwanele Phinzi, and Catherine Sutherland); 8. Informal Greenspaces in
Peripheral Luanda, Angola: Benefits and Challenges (Euridice Lurdes Jorge
Pedrosa, Seth Asare Okyere, Stephen Kofi Diko, and Michihiro Kita); 9.
Collaborative Spatial Expressions of Sustainability: River Rehabilitation
Projects in Durban, South Africa (Patrick Martel, Catherine Sutherland,
Sylvia Hannan, and Fanele Magwaza) 10. Regulation of Physical Development
in Ghana: Systems and Practices (Michael Addaney, Seth Opoku Mensah, and
Florence Abugtane Avogo); 11. Spatial Expression of Climate Change in
Rapidly Urbanising City of Tamale, Ghana (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Patrick
Brandful Cobbinah, and Joseph Nyaaba Akongbangre); 12. Planning for
Sustainable Metro Express in Mauritius (Roopanand Mahadew, Michael Addaney,
and Patrick Brandful Cobbinah); Part III: Urban Informality, Regeneration
and Tenure Security; 13. Situating Everyday Urban Struggles within the
Context of the SDGs in an Informal Settlement in Accra, Ghana (Seth Asare
Okyere, Louis Kusi Frimpong, Stephen Kofi Diko, Matthew Abunyewah, and
Michihiro Kita); 14. Connecting solid waste management to sustainable urban
development in Africa (Enoch Akwasi Kosoe, Issaka Kanton Osumanu, and
Francis Diawuo Darko); 15. Urban Informality and Flexible Land Tenure
Arrangements in Namibia: Lessons and Insights (Kennedy Kariseb, and Ivone
Tjilale); 16. The Shifting Sanitation Landscapes Through the Lens of
Governmentality in Durban, South Africa (Anthony Odili, and Catherine
Sutherland); 17. Transforming Urban Informal Settlements in Kenya through
Adaptive Spatial Planning and Tenure Regularisation (Collins Odote, and
Philip Olale)