Africa S Railway Renaissance

Author : Tim Zajontz,Pádraig Carmody,Mandira Bagwandeen,Anthony Leysens
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 239 pages
File Size : 45,5 Mb
Release : 2023-07-28
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781000919240

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Africa’s Railway Renaissance by Tim Zajontz,Pádraig Carmody,Mandira Bagwandeen,Anthony Leysens Pdf

This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa’s new railway architecture and its function within China’s Belt and Road Initiative. Leading and emerging scholars from Africa, China, Europe and the Americas offer interpretations through politicoeconomic, historical, geographical and post-colonial conceptual lenses. Case studies on projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia offer an empirically rich and cross-disciplinary picture of Sino-African railway developments at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Regional analyses on West and East Africa expose persistent obstacles to the regional integration of Africa’s railways. The volume outlines opportunities and challenges related to Africa’s railway renaissance in the post-COVID-19 global political economy and will be of great interest to academics, students and practitioners interested in Africa-China relations and their developmental effects or in the politics of infrastructure, spatial governance and the political economy of transport.

Author : Tim Zajontz,Pádraig Risteard Carmody,Mandira Bagwandeen,Anthony Leysens
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2023
Category : Africa
ISBN : 1032077425

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Africa's Railway Renaissance by Tim Zajontz,Pádraig Risteard Carmody,Mandira Bagwandeen,Anthony Leysens Pdf

"This book investigates the history, political economy and spatiality of Chinese railway projects in Africa. It examines the financial governance of Sino-African railway projects, their socio-cultural, political and economic effects as well as the regional dimension of Africa's new railway architecture and its function within China's Belt and Road Initiative. Leading and emerging scholars from Africa, China, Europe and the Americas offer interpretations through politico-economic, historical, geographical and post-colonial conceptual lenses. Case studies on projects in Angola, Ethiopia, Kenya, Nigeria, Tanzania and Zambia offer an empirically rich and cross-disciplinary picture of Sino-African railway developments at the micro-, meso- and macro-levels. Regional analyses on West and East Africa expose persistent obstacles to the regional integration of Africa's railways. The volume outlines opportunities and challenges related to Africa's railway renaissance in the post-Covid-19 global political economy and will be of great interest to academics, students and practitioners interested in Africa-China relations and their developmental effects or in the politics of infrastructure, spatial governance and the political economy of transport"--

Author : Tim Zajontz
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2023-12-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9783031444494

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The Political Economy of China’s Infrastructure Development in Africa by Tim Zajontz Pdf

This book sheds light on structural drivers that led to the Chinese omnipresence in African infrastructure markets and offers a strategic-relational approach to the study of African agency in Sino-African infrastructure encounters. Case studies cover the Tanzania-Zambia Railway Authority (TAZARA), Zambia’s road sector as well as Tanzania’s Bagamoyo port and Standard Gauge Railway. It is shown that African (state) agency in the infrastructure sector is contingent upon dynamic state-society relations and distinct political-economic contexts and constraints. The book problematises contradictions related to infrastructure debt, the emergence of Sino-African public-private partnerships and the intensifying geopolitics-cum-geoeconomics of infrastructure across Africa.

Author : Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos
Publisher : Lulu.com
Page : 741 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2014-04-22
Category : Reference
ISBN : 9781483410128

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Unleashing Africa’s Resilience: Pan-Africanist Renaissance In a New African Century by Costantinos Berhutesfa Costantinos Pdf

Africa includes five of the world's fastest-growing economies, as well as a treasure chest of natural resources. Those very things, however, have caused multinational corporations to flock to the continent in an attempt take control of those resources. An African renaissance is hard to conceptualize, but that is exactly what is beginning to effect real change, with the assistance of both public officials and ordinary citizens. This study theorizes an African renaissance as the dynamic interaction of strategy and process and seeks to motivate researchers to shift analysis in that direction. This shift emphasizes the task of broadly structuring African renaissance as a geopolitical system is more important than that of promoting it within a specific program of nations. Unleashing Africa's Resilience provides the necessary tools for research-based policymaking and the critical thinking needed to help Africa build a vibrant economy and become a more prominent player on the world stage.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2023-11-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9789004683082

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Yearbook on the African Union Volume 3 (2022) by Anonim Pdf

This is the third edition of the Yearbook on the African Union (YBAU). The YBAU is first and foremost an academic project that provides an in-depth evaluation and analysis of the institution, its processes, and its engagements. Despite the increased agency in recent years of the African Union in general, and the AU Commission in particular, little is known – outside expert policy or niche academic circles – about the Union’s activities. This is the gap the Yearbook on the African Union wants to systematically address. It seeks to be a reference point for in-depth research, evidence-based policy-making and decision-making. Contributors are Festus Kofi Aubyn, Mandira Bagwandeen, Habibu Yaya Bappah, Bruce Byiers, Annie Barbara Hazviyemurwi Chikwanha, Dawit Yohannes Wondemagegnehu, Linnea Gelot, Cheryl Hendricks, Jens Herpolsheimer, Aïssatou Kanté, Tim Murithi, Edefe Ojomo, Thomas Tieku, Gino Vlavonou, Tim Zajontz.

Author : South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 156 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1947
Category : Railroads
ISBN : STANFORD:36105128641623

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The South African Railways by South Africa. Railways and Harbours Board Pdf

Author : Trans-African Railway Company
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1914
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015020931062

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Report of the Council of Administration and Opinion of the Board of Control by Trans-African Railway Company Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 54,7 Mb
Release : 1911
Category : Railroads
ISBN : UOM:39015021327781

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Special African Railway Number by Anonim Pdf

Author : Mohamed Amin,Alastair Matheson
Publisher : Random House (UK)
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Transportation
ISBN : STANFORD:36105040634284

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Railway Across the Equator by Mohamed Amin,Alastair Matheson Pdf

This enthralling story is a fascinating narrative, illustrated with superb photographs, telling of the dramas and dangers involved in the construction of the line as well as looking at the different generations of locomotives and rolling stock used on the line.

Author : Robert R. Bianchi
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 272 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-01
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780190915308

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China and the Islamic World by Robert R. Bianchi Pdf

China is building a New Silk Road that runs through the heartland of the Muslim world, promising it will create integrated economies and stronger ties across Eurasia and Africa. Robert R. Bianchi argues that while China has the financial and technical resources to accomplish its infrastructure goals, it is woefully unprepared to deal with the social and political demands of its partner countries' citizens. China and the Islamic World explores how China's leaders and citizens are learning-through their relationships with Pakistan, Turkey, Indonesia, Iran, Nigeria and Egypt-that they have to respect and adjust to the aspirations of ordinary people throughout the Islamic world, not just cater to the narrow band of government and business elites. Bianchi demonstrates that turbulent countries along the New Silk Road are likely to transform Chinese society at least as much as China changes them. This realization will be deeply unsettling for China's authoritarian rulers, who desperately want to monopolize power domestically. The party and state bosses have responded to challenges with a contradictory blend of flexibility abroad and rigidity at home, compromising with popular demands in one country after another while refusing to negotiate many of the same issues with their own citizens. This book shows how China faces a growing struggle to maintain their double-sided statecraft as it becomes apparent that the New Silk Road is not a one way street.

Author : Krzysztof Zboinski
Publisher : BoD – Books on Demand
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-16
Category : Transportation
ISBN : 9789535122357

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Railway Research by Krzysztof Zboinski Pdf

This book focuses on selected research problems of contemporary railways. The first chapter is devoted to the prediction of railways development in the nearest future. The second chapter discusses safety and security problems in general, precisely from the system point of view. In the third chapter, both the general approach and a particular case study of a critical incident with regard to railway safety are presented. In the fourth chapter, the question of railway infrastructure studies is presented, which is devoted to track superstructure. In the fifth chapter, the modern system for the technical condition monitoring of railway tracks is discussed. The compact on-board sensing device is presented. The last chapter focuses on modeling railway vehicle dynamics using numerical simulation, where the dynamical models are exploited.

Author : Andrew Thatcher,Klaus J. Zink,Klaus Fischer
Publisher : CRC Press
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2019-06-14
Category : Nature
ISBN : 9781351269667

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Human Factors for Sustainability by Andrew Thatcher,Klaus J. Zink,Klaus Fischer Pdf

This book deals with the central question of how human factors and ergonomics (HFE) might contribute to solutions for the more sustainable development of our world. The contents of the book are highly compatible with the recent political agenda for sustainable development as well as with sustainability research from other disciplines.The book aims to summarize and profile the various empirical and theoretical work arising from the field of “Human Factors and Sustainable Development” in the last decade. The book gives a systematic overview of relevant theoretical concepts, their underlying philosophies, as well as global application fields and case studies.

Author : F. Söderbaum
Publisher : Springer
Page : 251 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2004-10-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780230513716

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The Political Economy of Regionalism by F. Söderbaum Pdf

The Political Economy of Regionalism: The Case of Southern Africa challenges prevailing wisdom, showing how ruling political elites and 'big business' join forces with certain external actors in order to promote market integration and economic globalization, boost regimes, and to satisfy group-specific and even personal interests. Only rarely do these forms of regionalism contribute to the poor and disadvantaged, who instead opt out, and survive through informal economic regionalisms or seek to create regionalisms rooted in civil society.

Author : Craig Arceneaux,Anika Leithner,Benjamin F. Timms,Shanruo Ning Zhang,Joseph N. Weatherby,Ira Reed
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 423 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 2017-07-20
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134858781

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The Other World by Craig Arceneaux,Anika Leithner,Benjamin F. Timms,Shanruo Ning Zhang,Joseph N. Weatherby,Ira Reed Pdf

The Other World combines a thematic and area studies approach to explore contemporary global issues in the developing world. Accessible and interdisciplinary, this text offers political, economic, social, and historical analysis plus case studies on Latin America, Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia and Eurasia, and the Middle East and North Africa. Highlighting similarities and differences among these regions and focusing on enduring problems, The Other World is a practical look at the issues affecting the majority of the world's population. New to the 10th Edition: Shift of focus from colonialism toward globalization, with continued attention to the legacy of colonialism. Expanded coverage of Asia. Re-cast connections between conceptual chapters (politics, economics, and culture) and regional chapters, allowing students and professors to make comparisons and contrasts more readily.

Author : Raboaca, Maria Simona,Djohra, Saheb,Moussaoui, Omar,Mihaltan, Traian Candin,Koussa, Mustapha
Publisher : IGI Global
Page : 346 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2024-04-26
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 9798369310151

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Advancements in Renewable Energy and Green Hydrogen by Raboaca, Maria Simona,Djohra, Saheb,Moussaoui, Omar,Mihaltan, Traian Candin,Koussa, Mustapha Pdf

The demand for sustainable energy solutions in rapidly evolving academic and industrial environments is at an all-time high. Challenges faced by those championing sustainability and energy solutions include the integration of green hydrogen, a clean and renewable energy carrier, into hybrid energy systems. Ensuring its traceability, certification, and efficient utilization creates an issue that academics, industry experts, and policymakers are struggling to solve. With the increasing importance of green hydrogen in reducing carbon emissions and addressing climate change, the need for a comprehensive guide to navigate this intricate territory is more pressing than ever. The Handbook of Research on Digitalization and Green Hydrogen Production is a groundbreaking book that provides a holistic and innovative approach to the challenges surrounding green hydrogen integration. It serves as a roadmap for academic scholars and industry professionals, providing deep insights into the various facets of green hydrogen, from production and storage to transportation and utilization. This book tackles the safety concerns associated with transporting green hydrogen and explores innovative technologies like Power-to-Gas-to-Power (P2G2P) and the conversion of hydrogen into ammonia. It also highlights the crucial role of standards and security regulations in ensuring the reliability of green hydrogen processes.