Natural Disasters - General & Miscellaneous

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Name: Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa
Author: Mark Pelling
ISBN: 9781136567988

by Mark Pelling (Editor), Ben Wisner (Editor)

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Overview

Focusing on Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing world region, Disaster Risk Reduction also illustrates global processes. Part one reviews development, urbanization and disaster risk in Africa as a whole, identifies state-of-the-art practices and policies for building urban resilience, and provides a tool kit for urban risk reduction. It also presents a powerful conceptual framework to analyse and compare disaster risk and resilience in different cities and communities. Part two presents detailed case studies from Algeria, Ghana, Senegal, Kenya, Tanzania and South Africa, illustrating vulnerability to earthquake, fire, environmental health hazards, traffic hazards and flooding. Part three looks to the future and outlines a vision for a safer urban Africa based on achieving gains in human security through inclusive governance and investment in the creative capacities of Africa's urban dwellers. 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.

About the Author, Mark Pelling

Mark Pelling is Reader in Human Geography at King's College London and author of The Vulnerability of Cities (2003). Ben Wisner is retired Professor of Geography and Director of International Studies at CSU at Long Beach, California and is co-editor of Towards a New Map of Africa (2005).