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  • Secondary Cities and Local Governance in Southern Africa

    Series series Earth and Environmental Science (R0)
    This book is the first to consider the roles, challenges and governance responses of secondary cities in southern Africa to changing circumstances. Among the challenges are governance under conditions of resource scarcity, managing informality, the effects and responses to climate change and the changing roles of the cities within the national space economy. It fills the gap in the literature on ... Leer más

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  • Human Security and Sustainable Development in East Africa

    Series series Routledge Studies in Peace, Conflict and Security in Africa
    This book investigates contemporary human security issues in East Africa, setting forth policy recommendations and a research agenda for future studies.Human security takes a people-centered rather than state-centered approach to security issues, focusing on whether people feel safe, free from fear, want, and indignity. This book investigates human security in East Africa, encompassing issues as ... Leer más

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  • From Poverty to Power eBook

    How active citizens and effective states can change the world

    de Duncan Green ...
    This new edition of From Poverty to Power has been fully revised and now includes a new chapter with an in-depth analysis of the human impact of the global financial and food crises. From Poverty to Power argues that a radical redistribution of power, opportunities, and assets rather than traditional models of charitable or government aid is required to break the cycle of poverty and inequality. ... Leer más

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  • Urban Food Systems Governance and Poverty in African Cities

    Edición de Jane Battersby, Vanessa Watson ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Food, Society and the Environment
    As Africa urbanises and the focus of poverty shifts to urban centres, there is an imperative to address poverty in African cities. This is particularly the case in smaller cities, which are often the most rapidly urbanising, but the least able to cope with this growth. This book argues that an examination of the food system and food security provides a valuable lens to interrogate urban poverty. ... Leer más

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  • Forty Years of Community-Based Forestry: A Review of Its Extent and Effectiveness

    de FAOoftheUN ...
    Since the 1970s and 1980s, community-based forestry has grown in popularity, based on the concept that local communities, when granted sufficient property rights over local forest commons, can organize autonomously and develop local institutions to regulate the use of natural resources and manage them sustainably. Over time, various forms of community-based forestry have evolved in different ... Leer más

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  • Beyond Gridlock

    It is now conventional wisdom to see the great policy challenges of the 21st century as inherently transnational. It is equally common to note the failures of the international institutions the world relies on to address such challenges. As the acclaimed 2013 book Gridlock argued, the world increasingly needs effective international cooperation, but multilateralism appears unable to deliver it in ... Leer más

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  • Reframing the Urban Challenge in Africa

    Knowledge Co-production from the South

    Series series Routledge Studies in Cities and Development
    This book explores the changing dynamics and challenges behind the rapid expanse of Africa’s urban population.Africa’s urban age is underway. With the world’s fastest growing urban population, the continent is rapidly transforming from one that is largely rural, to one that is largely urban. Often facing limited budgets, those tasked with managing African cities require empirical evidence on the ... Leer más

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  • Land Tenure Security and Sustainable Development

    This open access book presents a nuanced and accessible synthesis of the relationship between land tenure security and sustainable development. Contributing authors have collectively worked for decades on land tenure as connected with conservation and development across all major regions of the globe. The first section of this volume is intended as a standalone primer on land tenure security and ... Leer más

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  • Governance for Development in Africa

    Solving Collective Action Problems

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  • Africa's Urban Revolution

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  • Women and the Informal Economy in Urban Africa

    From the Margins to the Centre

    Series series Africa Now
    In this highly original work, Mary Njeri Kinyanjui explores the trajectory of women's movement from the margins of urbanization into the centres of business activities in Nairobi and its accompanying implications for urban planning.While women in much of Africa have struggled to gain urban citizenship and continue to be weighed down by poor education, low income and confinement to domestic ... Leer más

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  • Cities in a Globalizing World

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