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Urban Vulnerability
This text aims to stimulate debate about risk reduction in urban settings and to identify key issues for further advocacy. The authors propose a conceptual framework for understanding urban vulnerability and link the concept with disaster risk.
Published: 2002
Pages: 220
Paperback: 9780855984915
This text aims to stimulate debate about risk reduction in urban settings and to identify key issues for further advocacy. The authors propose a conceptual framework for understanding urban vulnerability and link the concept with disaster risk.
| Forward | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| Acknowledgements | |||
| Introduction | |||
| Christina Nomado | |||
| Part 1: Understanding urban vulnerability | |||
| Chapter 1: Urban vulnerability: A conceptual framework, Erika Coetzee | |||
| Chapter 2: Dimensions of urban environmental risk | |||
| Part 2: The Southern African context | |||
| Chapter 3: Urban challenges in southern Africa | |||
| Urban poverty and governance in southern Africa: | |||
| Local governments and urban poverty reduction in eastern and southern Africa, George Motovu | |||
| Challenges facing local governments in the SADC region with regard to their role in sustainable development, David Kithakye | |||
| Urban challenges in five southern African countries:- | |||
| Zambia, Darren Hedley, Malekiado Phiri and Liseli Bull-Kamanga | |||
| Mozambique, Vicento Vasco | |||
| Zimbabwe, Marck Chikanza | |||
| Malawi, Ruth Butao Ayoade | |||
| South Africa, South Africa's Urban Development Framework (1997) | |||
| Part 3: Case studies from southern Africa: Strategies for addressing urban vulnerability | |||
| Chapter 4: Increasing access to services, assets and opportunities | |||
| Case study 1: The Ntwanano Project: Urban vulnerability and youth - Maputo, Mozambique, Vincent Vasco | |||
| Case Study 2: The CSC-GTZ Urban Poverty Alleviation Project | |||
| Urban vulnerability and service delivery - Lilongwe and Mzuzu City, Malawi, Ruth Batao Ayoade | |||
| Case study 3: Partnership for adolescent Sexual and Reproductive health Project (PALS): Urban vulnerability and health - Ndola, Lusaka and Livingstone, Zambia, Francis K. Chanda | |||
| Chapter 5: Increasing security in the urban enviroment | |||
| Case study 4: Food security and nutrition: A comparison of rural and urban situations - Mozambique, Carina Ismael and Stephan Meershoek | |||
| Case study 5: MANDISA: Monitoring, Mapping and Analysis of Disaster Incidents in South Africa: Urban vulnerability and disaster mitigation, Christina Nomdo/Disaster Mitigation for Sustainable Livelihoods Programme | |||
| Case study 6: Incineration of obsolete pesticides: Urban vulnerability and waste management - Motola, Mozambique, Manuela D, Rassel and Jorge Guzman | |||
| Chapter 6: Increasing participation in urban development | |||
| Case study 7: PROSPECT (Programme of support for poverty Elimination and Community Transformation): Urban vulnerability and governance - Lusaka, Zambia | |||
| Darren Hedley, Malekiado Phiri and Liseli Bull-Kamanga | |||
| Case study 8: Local Government & Gender Project: Urban vulnerability and women in governance - South Africa Gender Advocasy Programme | |||
| Case study 9: Integrated Urban Development Project: Urban vulnerability and integrated planning - Chitungwiza, Zimbabwe, Marck Chikanza | |||
| Conclusion | |||
| Christina Nomdo. |
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