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Chigudu, Andrew.

Resilience and sustainability in urban Africacontext, facets and alternatives in Zimbabwe /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	Resilience and sustainability in urban Africaedited by Innocent Chirisa, Andrew Chigudu.
Reminder of title:	context, facets and alternatives in Zimbabwe /
other author:	Chirisa, Innocent.
Published:	Singapore :Springer Singapore :2021.
Description:	ix, 228 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Sustainable urban developmentZimbabwe.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-16-3288-4
ISBN:	9789811632884$q(electronic bk.)

Resilience and sustainability in urban Africacontext, facets and alternatives in Zimbabwe /
Resilience and sustainability in urban Africacontext, facets and alternatives in Zimbabwe /[electronic resource] :edited by Innocent Chirisa, Andrew Chigudu. - Singapore :Springer Singapore :2021. - ix, 228 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Advances in 21st century human settlements,2198-2546. - Advances in 21st century human settlements..

Resilience and Sustainability in Urban Land Dynamics in Africa: A Review -- The Many Faces to Resilience and the Practical Implications to Urban Development and Management in Zimbabwe -- Disaster Management Capabilities in Zimbabwe: The Context of Africa Agenda 2063 -- Planning and Design as Defining Parameters for Urban Resilience: The Case of Zimbabwe -- Climate-Resilient Infrastructure for Water and Energy in Greater Harare -- Building Urban Resilience in the Post-2015 Development Agenda: A Case Study of the City of Harare, Zimbabwe -- Urban Resilience under Austerity: A Case Study of Street Children Vending in the Harare Central Business District, Post-2018 -- Resilience-Based Interventions to Street Childhood among Street Children in Zimbabwe -- Childcare and Familial Relations During the Migration Period -- Resilience as a Governance Factor: The Case of Institutional Multiplicity in the Planning of Caledonia, Harare -- 'Land Barons' as the Elephant in the Room: Planning and the Management of Urban Space in Chitungwiza and Harare -- Climate Change and the Resilience Cause in Masvingo City Urban Landscape, Zimbabwe -- Towards a Resilience Framework for Urban Zimbabwe.

Resilience has become a very topical issue transcending many spheres and sectors of sustainable urban development. This book presents a resilience framework for sustainable cities and towns in Africa. The rise in informal settlements is due to the urban planning practices in most African cities that rarely reflect the realities of urban life and environment for urban development. Aspects of places, people and process are central to the concept of urban resilience and sustainable urban growth. It stems from the observation that urban vulnerability is on the increase in Zimbabwe and beyond. In history, disasters have adversely affected nations across the world, inflicting wide ranging losses on one hand while on the other hand creating development opportunities for urban communities. Cooperation in disaster management is a strategy for minimising losses and uplifting the affected urban settlements. The significance of urban planning and design in the growth and development of sustainable urban centres is well documented. Urbanisation has brought with it challenges that most developing countries such as Zimbabwe are not equipped to handle. This has been accompanied by problems such as overpopulation, overcrowding, shortages of resources and the growth of slum settlements. There need is to seriously consider urban planning and design in order to come up with contemporary designs that are resilient to current urban challenges. There are major gaps in urban resilience building for instance in Harare and the local authority needs to prioritise investment in resilient urban infrastructure.

ISBN: 9789811632884$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-981-16-3288-4doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

902022
Sustainable urban development
--Zimbabwe.

LC Class. No.: HT243.Z55 / R47 2021

Dewey Class. No.: 307.116096891

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