Disaster risk reduction
Subtitle: cases from urban Africa
By: edited by Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner ; with foreword by Anna Kajumulo Tibaijuka.
Contributors: Pelling, Mark, 1967-; Wisner, Benjamin.
Publisher: Earthscan
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Sterling, VA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 224
ISBN-13: 9781844075560
Subjects: Emergency management -- Africa -- Case studies; Risk management -- Africa -- Case studies; Disaster relief -- Africa -- Case studies
Genres: Case studies.
Description: "Focusing on Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing world region, Disaster Risk Reduction also illustrates global processes. Together, the three parts provide a one-of-a-kind book packed with original research and offering an innovative way of thinking about the reduction of risk in rapidly urbanizing cities across the globe."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Urbanization and disaster risk reduction in Africa; title: Urbanisation, human security and disaster risk in Africa / Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner; title: African cities of hope and risk / Ben Wisner and Mark Pelling; title: Reducing urban disaster risk in Africa / Mark Pelling and Ben Wisner; title: Case studies of urban disaster risk in Africa; title: Integrated disaster risk and environmental health monitoring: greater Accra metropolitan area, Ghana / Jacob Songsore ... [et al.]; title: Road traffic accidents as an everyday hazard: Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya / Andre Yitambe ... [et al.]; title: Fire-risk in informal settlements in Cape Town, South Africa / Robyn Pharoah; title: A city of contrasts; title: Building disaster resilient communities: Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / Robert B. Kiunsi ... [et al.]; title: History, governance and the millennium development goals: flood risk reduction in Saint-Louis, Senegal / Khady Diagne and and Abdoulaye Ndiaye; title: Disaster risk reduction in Algiers, Algeria / Djillali Benouar and Yamina Ait Meziane; title: A vision for a safer urban Africa; title: Toward a safer urban future: conclusions and recommendations / Djillali Benouar ... [et al.].