Prospects For Sustainable Development In Sub Saharan Africa

Author : Jennifer L. De Maio,Suzanne Scheld,Mintesnot Woldeamanuel
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 197 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781498573962

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Sustainability in Sub-Saharan Africa by Jennifer L. De Maio,Suzanne Scheld,Mintesnot Woldeamanuel Pdf

This book considers the issue of sustainability in sub-Saharan Africa. It assesses the progress that has been made in sustainable development and the challenges that must still be addressed. Most importantly, it focuses on African experiences with sustainable development. Using the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as the framework for the analysis, the manuscript traces how the discourse on sustainability has evolved from a cultural, political, economic, and social perspective. It focuses on the goals for climate action, sustainable cities and communities, institutions, and partnerships to examine the vulnerability of Africans to climate change, attitudes towards sustainability, ethical challenges to implementing sustainable development programs, the relationship between governance, poverty, and sustainability, environmental terrorism, sustainable health care, sustainable transportation, and the use of open green space to promote a sustainable urban community. The book integrates the theory, practice, ethics, and policy of sustainability to better understand the implications for problems and responses to sustainable development in Africa. No book has applied the SDGs to an evaluation of sustainable development in Africa. This book fills that gap. Chapters from leading scholars utilize various research methods combined with case study analysis to provide context and a deeper understanding of the critical issues in sustainability in the sub-Saharan African world. The first section of the book examines the theory of sustainability and provides an overview of some of the most important institutional questions in the discourse on environmental policies in the African world. The next section of the book focuses on the issues and challenges that inform our understanding of sustainability and the implementation of best practices. Sustainability is examined in a global context as the difficulties in enforcing international standards and protections in the state-centered international order are considered. The final part of the book engages in a more in-depth examination of several specific examples of sustainability in urban Africa.

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 96 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : UCR:31210024916635

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Prospects for Sustainable Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science, Space, and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment Pdf

Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 998 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Africa, Sub-Saharan
ISBN : STANFORD:36105045598278

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Africa and Hunger by United States. Congress. House. Committee on Science and Technology. Subcommittee on Natural Resources, Agriculture Research, and Environment Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1573091871

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Anonim
Publisher : International Scholars Publications
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UVA:X004267672

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Sustainable Development in Africa by Anonim Pdf

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Author : Alexandros Gasparatos,Abubakari Ahmed,Merle Naidoo,Alice Karanja,Kensuke Fukushi,Osamu Saito,Kazuhiko Takeuchi
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 49,9 Mb
Release : 2020-09-04
Category : Science
ISBN : 9789811544583

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Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa I by Alexandros Gasparatos,Abubakari Ahmed,Merle Naidoo,Alice Karanja,Kensuke Fukushi,Osamu Saito,Kazuhiko Takeuchi Pdf

The aim of this 2-volume book is to highlight how Sustainability Science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces. The volumes collect a number of local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences. These are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges such using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach the proposed volume will provide an authoritative source that will pack in a single volume a large amount of information on how Sustainability Science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts. While there have been general books about sustainability science, none has had a strong African focus. As a result the 2-volume set fills a major gap in the Sustainability Science scholarship. This volume sets the stage for the series. Part I introduces key sustainability challenges in Africa. Parts II‐III highlights specific case studies related to these challenges from West and Central Africa.

Author : Aguibou Y. Yansané
Publisher : Praeger
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 1996-04-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105019183081

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Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa by Aguibou Y. Yansané Pdf

Nine world-class experts on the African economy share their knowledge regarding the potential for real improvement and growth in food production and the development of grassroots economies that will benefit citizens as well as governments. Economic models that assume good incentives, infrastructure, entrepreneurial skills, and a level trading field cannot be invoked. Structural adjustment in African countries has led to unintended consequences because the common people and the small farmers have not been consulted. Domestic food production, the crux of Africa's economic problem, has been downgraded because of the emphasis on export crops. To develop self-sufficiency and food security, African nations must mobilize domestic resources, improve the human resource capacity, and strengthen their scientific and technological bases. They must also cooperate in integration schemes rather than compete for the available Western aid.

Author : Deryke Belshaw,the late Arthur Ian Livingstone
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 500 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2005-06-29
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134528530

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Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa by Deryke Belshaw,the late Arthur Ian Livingstone Pdf

Renewing Development in Sub-Saharan Africa reviews the debates and brings together specialist contributions, to provide a clear guide to the major complexities of African development. They lay the foundation for designing a range of individual country-specific policy-sets, in which the strategic components are prioritized according to each country's constraints and opportunities. The emphasis of the book is on the identification of effective strategies that will enable individual countries to most effectively exploit their growth opportunities and to meet poverty-reducing and other key equity objectives.

Author : Mandivamba Rukuni
Publisher : World Resources Inst
Page : 6 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 1569734151

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Land Tenure, Governance and Prospects for Sustainable Development in Africa by Mandivamba Rukuni Pdf

Author : Kempe Ronald Hope
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 226 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-10-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789004491687

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From Crisis to Renewal by Kempe Ronald Hope Pdf

This volume deals with crisis and renewal in African development policy and management. It digs deep into, takes stock of, and thoroughly analyzes the nature, impact, and future of development policy and management on the continent. It demonstrates the failure of post-independence policy and management in most of Africa, traces the emergence and results of reform measures, and advocates the lessons of success for the rest of Africa derived from Botswana’s approach to sustainable development and its achievement of economic prosperity and the maintenance of political stability and good governance. It concludes, rather optimistically, that the prospects for sustainable development are much better now than they have ever been before with the 21st century likely to be hailed as ‘The African Century’ – bringing with it a durable peace and sustainable growth.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1031651499

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Prospects for Recovery and Sustainable Development in Africa by Anonim Pdf

Author : Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 488 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781580463928

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Globalization and Sustainable Development in Africa by Bessie House-Soremekun,Toyin Falola Pdf

The first comprehensive work on globalization within the context of sustainable development initiatives in Africa.

Author : Kemi Ogunyemi,Oreva Atanya,Vanessa Burgal
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 362 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-16
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783031049231

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Management and Leadership for a Sustainable Africa, Volume 2 by Kemi Ogunyemi,Oreva Atanya,Vanessa Burgal Pdf

To effectively deliver sustainable management in practice for Africa, we need responsible leadership. We need to deepen our understanding of sustainability in the unique socio-political and economic context of the continent. The roles of various actors across public, private and non-profit sectors as enablers of sustainable development need to be explored to understand the social, economic and environmental (SEE) trends in Africa and its emerging and developing economies, as well as to chart the way forward for the continent. This second volume explores the roles and responsibilities of the players—leaders and followers—in the core, public purpose and business spheres in delivering sustainable development outcomes for Africa. Drawing on interviews, cases and extensive literature, this volume contributes to reflection on the leadership values and practices required for a sustainable Africa and the crafting of new policy approaches to address the development challenges such as environmental degradation, economic inequities and social exclusion in Africa. The African scope of the book is hinged on collaboration from authors across Africa and the inclusion of case stories from emerging economies in the five African subregions (East, West, North, Central and Southern Africa) within the chapters. The core message is that, to achieve effective and sustainable management and development for Africa, the practice of responsible leadership is critical.

Author : Britt Baillie,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen
Publisher : Springer Nature
Page : 363 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2020-11-27
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789811543661

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African Heritage Challenges by Britt Baillie,Marie Louise Stig Sørensen Pdf

The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume identify shared challenges, good practices and failures, and use specific case studies to provide detailed insights into varied forms of heritage and heritage defining processes on the continent. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of ‘heritage’, ‘community engagement’, and ‘sustainable development’ the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.

Author : Olatunji Bankole
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 13 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2017-08-30
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783668513129

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Mortality Levels, Patterns and Determinants in Sub-Saharan Africa. Exploring the Region's Prospect for Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for Health by Olatunji Bankole Pdf

Presentation slides from the year 2017 in the subject Sociology - Social System, Social Structure, Class, Social Stratification, Obafemi Awolowo University, language: English, abstract: The life expectancy rates are lower in the sub-Saharan African region than in any other region of the world. Therefore, this presentation strives to draw attention to the determinants of mortality there. The goal is to extensively review the level and patterns of mortality in the area, to further explore the determining factors responsible for prevalence levels of mortality in the sub-Sharan African regions, and to explore the sub-Sahara region's prospect for achieving the Sustainable Development Goals for Health. Evidently, there are needs to be met and actions to be taken. While being exposed to the dangers of malaria, mental health and high infant mortality, striving for the attainment of the Sustainable Development Goals for Health in the region is non-negotiable.