Editors:
Explores several in depth case studies in climate change adaptation response in Urban Africa
Focuses on the geography of urban adaptation to climate in Africa
Discusses future directions for climate change adaptation response from multiple perspectives
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Table of contents (19 chapters)
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Front Matter
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Introduction
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Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa: Land Tenure, Biodiversity Conservation and Local Responses
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Urban Climate Change Adaptation in Africa: Towards Policy and Practice
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Climate Change Adaptation Planning and Institutional Responses in Urban Africa
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About this book
In addition to the focus on the geography of urban adaptation to climate change in Africa, this collection offers a broader perspective by blending the use of case studies and theory based research. It examines transformations in climate change adaptation and its future orientation from the perspectives of urban planners, political economists, environmentalists, ecologists, economists and geographers, thereby addressing the challenges facing African cities adaptation responses from all angles.
Providing up-to-date and authoritative contributions covering the key aspects of climate change adaptation in urban Africa, this book will be of great interest to policymakers, practitioners, scholars and students of geography, urban development and management, environmental science and policy, disaster management, as well as those in the field of urban planning.
Keywords
- climate change
- Sustainable Urban Development
- food security in Africa
- urban agriculture
- gender and poverty in Africa
- Urban planning
- Urban management theories
- climate change adaptation
- Urban land governance
- housing and property rights in Africa
- Urban land governance
- urban Africa
- Climate change management
- Environmental Geography
- urban geography and urbanism
- climate change impacts
Editors and Affiliations
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Department of Planning, Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology, Kumasi, Ghana
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
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Institute for Land, Water and Society, Charles Sturt University, Albury, Australia
Patrick Brandful Cobbinah
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Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China
Michael Addaney
About the editors
Michael Addaney is a senior research assistant at the University of Energy and Natural Resources, Sunyani, Ghana and PhD candidate at the Research Institute of Environmental Law, Wuhan University, Wuhan, China. Michael’s research interests broadly focus on the role of international human rights law in framing and implementing responses to sustainability challenges in sub-Saharan Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: The Geography of Climate Change Adaptation in Urban Africa
Editors: Patrick Brandful Cobbinah, Michael Addaney
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-04873-0
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG, part of Springer Nature 2019
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-030-04872-3Published: 08 February 2019
eBook ISBN: 978-3-030-04873-0Published: 29 January 2019
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XXXVI, 548
Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 41 illustrations in colour
Topics: Environment Studies, Climate Change Management and Policy, Environmental Geography, Urban Studies/Sociology, Urban Geography / Urbanism (inc. megacities, cities, towns), Climate Change/Climate Change Impacts