CLIMATE CHANGE, ASSETS AND FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN CITIES
There is overwhelming evidence that the climate is changing. It is the poorest countries and people who are the most vulnerable to this threat and who will suffer the most. This book shows how increasing urbanization and growing poverty levels mean that it is imperative to ask how climate change might impact on asset accumulation and food security for the urban poor. It demonstrates how these three, often separate foci, can be brought together to frame a holistic urban adaptation approach.
Furthermore, although much has been written about climate change, limited evidence exists in Southern Africa of how climate change has been integrated in urban planning. The authors explore the urban climate change nexus linking asset adaptation, climate change science and food security through several case study cities. These include Cape Town, George and //Khara Hais (South Africa), Lusaka (Zambia), Maputo (Mozambique), Mombasa (Kenya) and Harare (Zimbabwe). The results shed light on how this nexus might be explored from different perspectives, both theoretical and practical, in order to plan for a more resilient future.
The book comprises ten chapters which focus on southern African cities, with each chapter written by highly experienced academics, research-focused practitioners and professional planners. Although the book concentrates on southern African cities, the insights that this book presents can be used to understand other urban centres in low and middle-income countries outside of this region and around the world.
Bruce Frayne is Assistant Professor and Director of the Master of Development Practice (MDP) program in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), University of Waterloo, Canada.
Caroline Moser is Professor of Urban Development and Director of the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC), School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, UK, and Senior Non-Resident Fellow, Global Economy and Development, Brookings Institution, Washington DC, USA.
Gina Ziervogel is a lecturer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
CLIMATE CHANGE, ASSETS AND FOOD SECURITY IN SOUTHERN AFRICAN CITIES
Edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser and Gina Ziervogel
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Climate change, assets, and food security in Southern African cities / edited by Bruce Frayne, Caroline Moser, and Gina Ziervogel. -- 1st ed.
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Simultaneously published in the USA and Canada--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
1. Climatic changes--Social aspects--Africa, Southern. 2. Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Africa, Southern. 3. Poverty--Africa, Southern. 4. Food security--Africa, Southern. 5. Africa, SouthernEnvironmental conditions. 6. Africa, Southern--Social conditions. 7. Africa, Southern--Economic conditions. I. Frayne, Bruce. II. Moser, Caroline O. N.
III. Ziervogel, Gina, 1975
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ISBN: 978-1-84971-418-1 (hbk)
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CONTENTS
BRUCE FRAYNE, CAROLINE MOSER AND GINA ZIERVOGEL
JANE BATTERSBY
GODFREY TAWODZERA
BELINDA DODSON
INS RAIMUNDO AND BRUCE FRAYNE
DANNY SIMATELE
GARETH HAYSOM
ALFRED OMENYA, GRACE LUBAALE AND COLLINS MIRUKA
WILLEMIEN FALING
BRUCE FRAYNE, CAROLINE MOSER AND GINA ZIERVOGEL
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
List of figures
List of tables
List of Boxes
Contributors
Jane Battersby is a Lecturer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Belinda Dodson is an Associate Professor in the Department of Geography, University of Western Ontario, Canada.
Willemien Faling is a Lecturer in the Department of Town and Regional Planning, University of Pretoria, South Africa.
Bruce Frayne is Assistant Professor in International Development in the School of Environment, Enterprise and Development (SEED), Faculty of Environment, University of Waterloo, Canada.
Gareth Haysom is a Researcher in the African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town and a Research Fellow in the Sustainability Institute, Stellenbosch University, South Africa.
Grace Lubaale is Director of Eco-Build Africa Trust, Nairobi, Kenya, and is a PhD candidate at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa.
Collins Miruka is Associate Professor of Management Sciences in the Graduate School of Business and Government Leadership, North West University, Mafikeng Campus, Mmabatho, South Africa.
Caroline Moser is Professor of Urban Development and Director of the Global Urban Research Centre, School of Environment and Development, University of Manchester, United Kingdom.
Alfred Omenya is Senior Lecturer in the School of the Built Environment, University of Nairobi, and Director of Eco-Build Africa Trust, Nairobi, Kenya.
Ins Raimundo is Director of the Centre for Policy Analysis, Department of Population Studies, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.
Danny Simatele is a Teaching Fellow in Sustainable Development in the School of Geography and Geosciences, St Andrews University, United Kingdom.
Godfrey Tawodzera is a Post-Doctoral Fellow in the African Centre for Cities (ACC) and Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Gina Ziervogel is a Lecturer in the Department of Environmental and Geographical Science, University of Cape Town, South Africa.
Acknowledgements
This project has been funded by the Ford Foundation, New York City and is a collaboration between the African Centre for Cities (ACC) at University of Cape Town, the Global Urban Research Centre (GURC) at University of Manchester and the African Food Security Urban Network (AFSUN). The editors would like to thank the Ford Foundation for their generous support that brought researchers and other experts together in a workshop held at the University of Cape Town in February 2010. The aim of the workshop was to explore the idea of a climate change, asset adaptation and food security nexus in Southern African cities. The Ford Foundation grant also made possible the production of this edited book, which is gratefully acknowledged.
