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Fighting disaster: reducing risk in cities
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
How can links between disaster mitigation and urban planning be strengthened? Can urban livelihood strategies reduce poor city dwellers’ vulnerability to disaster? Scant attention is currently paid by relief organisations to urban planning and disaster mitigation, according to a recent Care International report.
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Trouble in the air for food production as urban pollution hits rural development
id21 Development Research Reporting Service, 2002
Concern over air pollution has traditionally been focused on urban situations.
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Governance for sustainability?: balancing social and environmental concerns in Harare
Chr. Michelsen Institute, Norway, 2002
The paper examines urban governance in the framework of sustainable urban development, and agrees with most analyses that sustainable settlements embrace social, ecological and economic dimensions.
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A matter of timing: migration and housing access in metropolitan Johannesburg
Centre for Social Science Research, University of Cape Town (UCT), South Africa, 2002
The main findings from this study sheds new light on the dynamics of state control over African urbanisation in Johannesburg and its consequences for social differentiation.It reveals that , in spite of state control to limit African urbanisation, the African population of Johannesburg grew steadily throughout the apartheid period.