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Languages : en
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A Special Issue on the Role of Small and Intermediate Urban Centres in Planning in Africa
Small And Intermediate Urban Centres
Author: Jorge HardoyPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1000311562
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 365
Book Description
This book is the result of contributions, help and support from numerous people and several agencies. We are particularly grateful to the Swedish Agency for Research Cooperation with Developing Countries, the Swedish Council for Building Research and the United Nations Centre for Human Settlements (Habitat) for funding the work on which this volume is based - and doing so before the subject had come to be regarded as important and relevant. Within these agencies, special thanks is due to Olle Edqvist, Pietro Garau, Bruce Hyland, Bob and Ingrid Munro and Arcot Ramachandran. We are also grateful to our friends and colleagues in IIED's Human Settlements Programme who have worked with us on this subject - Jane Bicknell, Silvia Blitzer, Ana Maria Cabrera, Maria Graciela Caputo and Julio Davila. Julio Davila deserves special thanks for his help in refining and editing the final text; so too do Jane Bicknell and Ana Maria Cabrera for patiently putting up with endless last minute changes to the text.
The Role of Small and Intermediate Urban Centres in Planning in Africa
Author: Poul O. PedersenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Economic development
Languages : en
Pages : 341
Book Description
Regional Development Planning and Management of Urbanization
Author: United Nations Centre for Human SettlementsPublisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211313468
Category : Cities and towns
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Small Town Africa
Author: Jonathan BakerPublisher: Nordic Africa Institute
ISBN: 9789171063052
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 280
Book Description
Small Urban Centres in Africa
Author: Robert A. ObudhoPublisher:
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Category : Central places
Languages : en
Pages : 150
Book Description
The Management of Secondary Cities in Sub-Saharan Africa
Author: United Nations Centre for Human SettlementsPublisher: UN-HABITAT
ISBN: 9789211311600
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
Languages : en
Pages : 166
Book Description
Quarterly Journal of the Local Self Government Institute (Bombay).
Author: Local Self-Government Institute (Bombay)Publisher:
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Category : Local government
Languages : en
Pages : 124
Book Description
The Bangladesh Journal of Agricultural Economics
Author: The Peri-Urban Interface
Author: Duncan McGregorPublisher: Taylor & Francis
ISBN: 113653606X
Category : Architecture
Languages : en
Pages : 356
Book Description
Peri-urban interfaces - the zones where urban and rural areas meet - suffer from the greatest problems to humans caused by rapid urbanization, including intense pressures on resources, slum formation, lack of adequate services such as water and sanitation, poor planning and degradation of farmland. These areas, home to hundreds of millions of people, face unique problems and need distinctive and innovative approaches and solutions. This book, authored by top researchers and practitioners, covers the full breadth and depth of the impacts of rapid urbanization on livelihoods, poverty and resources in the peri-urban zones in diverse African, Asian, Latin American and Caribbean contexts. Topics include peri-urban resource sustainability, ecosystems and societies and environmental changes in peri-urban zones. Rich case studies cover production systems and livelihoods including the impacts of irrigated vegetable production, horticulture, dairy enterprises, waste-fed fisheries and pastoral livelihoods. Also addressed are planning and development issues in the peri-urban interface including the difficulty in achieving sustainability, conflict and cooperation over resources, and a fresh look at the relationship between people and their environment. The final part of the book presents policies and strategies for promoting and measuring sustainability in peri-urban zones including community-based waste management, the co-management of watersheds and empowerment of the poor. This book is the most comprehensive examination of the challenges and solutions facing the people and environments of peri-urban zones and is essential reading for all practitioners, students and academics in geography and development.