Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

by Ben Wisner and Mark Pelling

Book Overview

Published with ProVention Consortium, UNDP and UN-Habitat 'This excellent book is essential reading for those concerned with urban risk and its reduction in Africa, the most rapidly urbanizing region of the world.' Professor Jo Beall, Development Studies Institute, London School of Economics 'At last a book that recognizes the impacts of disasters on Africa's 350 million urban dwellers, including the many disasters that get overlooked and go unrecorded...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1844075567
• ISBN13: 9781844075560
• Release Date: December 2008
• Publisher: Routledge
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.2"