Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change

Africa’s urbanization rate has increased steadily over the past three decades and is reported to be faster than in any other region in the world . It is estimated that by 2030, over half of the African population will be living in urban areas . But the nature of Africa’s urbanization and subsequent...

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Autor principal: Lwasa, Shuaib; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. Makerere University.
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Publicado: Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades 2014
Acceso en línea:http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/inter/article/view/46528
http://biblioteca.clacso.edu.ar/gsdl/cgi-bin/library.cgi?a=d&c=mx/mx-005&d=article46528oai
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description Africa’s urbanization rate has increased steadily over the past three decades and is reported to be faster than in any other region in the world . It is estimated that by 2030, over half of the African population will be living in urban areas . But the nature of Africa’s urbanization and subsequent form of cities is yet to be critically analyzed in the context of city authorities’ readiness to address the challenges . Evidence is also suggesting that urbanization in African countries is increasingly associated with the high economic growth that has been observed in the last two decades . Both underlying and proximate drivers are responsible for the urbanization, and these include population dynamics, economic growth, legislative designation, increasing densities in rural centers, as well as the growth of mega cities such as Lagos, Cairo and Kinshasa, that are extending to form urban corridors . With the opportunities of urbanization in Sub–Saharan Africa, there are also challenges in the development and management of these cities . Those challenges include provision of social services, sustainable economic development, housing development, urban governance, spatial development guidance and environmental management, climate change adaptation, mitigation and disaster risk reduction . The challenge involves dealing with the development and infrastructure deficit, in addition to required adaption to and mitigation of climate change . This paper examines the current state of urban management in Africa .
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author Lwasa, Shuaib; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. Makerere University.
spellingShingle Lwasa, Shuaib; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. Makerere University.
Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
author_facet Lwasa, Shuaib; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. Makerere University.
author_sort Lwasa, Shuaib; Department of Geography, Geoinformatics and Climatic Sciences. Makerere University.
title Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
title_short Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
title_full Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
title_fullStr Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
title_full_unstemmed Managing African Urbanization in the Context of Environmental Change
title_sort managing african urbanization in the context of environmental change
publisher Centro de Investigaciones Interdisciplinarias en Ciencias y Humanidades
publishDate 2014
url http://www.revistas.unam.mx/index.php/inter/article/view/46528
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