Africa in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
This book offers a multifaceted examination of Africas development into the post-2015 global agenda from a geographical perspective. As a diversified and highly applied discipline, geography has a lot to offer to global debates, nuanced analysis of problems on and the search for innovative solutions to advance the African development agenda beyond 2015. The end of the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) era and the launch of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in September 2015 mark an important turning point for Africa and an opportune time to examine new challenges and opportunities that it faces. The regional disparities in MDG progress affirm an important geographic tenet that the unique yet internally differentiated socio-cultural, economic, political, ecological, biophysical and historical context give Africa distinctive challenges and opportunities that demand particular approaches to development. This edited book presents innovative contributions examining Africas development performance in diverse sectors during the MDG era as a basis for understanding prospects for its development in the SDG era and beyond. It offers new and innovative study perspectives and methodological approaches on urban transformation, development financing, food security, climate change, gender equality, health, and regional integration, among other topics, and useful insights for scholars, students and development practitioners.
This book was originally published as two special issues of African Geographical Review, the journal of the American Association of Geographers Africa Specialty Group, to mark the transition from MDGs to SDGs.
Leo Charles Zulu is an Associate Professor in the Department Geography, Environment and Spatial Sciences at Michigan State University. He was also the Editor of the African Geographical Review journal produced by the Africa Specialty Group of the American Association of Geographers. An interdisciplinary scholar, he has considerable professional and research experience on diverse issues including natural resources management, community resource management, forestry/conservation, solid biomass energy, climate change adaptation, health geography including HIV/AIDS, and international development, primarily in Africa. He also has more than 20 years of professional experience on environment and development work in Malawi and southern Africa.
Cristina DAlessandro is a Senior Fellow at the Centre on Governance of the University of Ottawa, Canada and an Associated Researcher at the UMR PRODIG, Paris, France. Previously she served as a Knowledge Expert at the African Capacity Building Foundation in Harare, Zimbabwe and as a professor at Sciences-Po Paris and at the University Lumire Lyon 2. As an international scholar with experience in Africa, Europe and America, she holds a number of board positions and serves as an advisor for international organizations/institutions.
Africa in the Post-2015 Development Agenda
A Geographical Perspective
Edited by
Leo Charles Zulu and Cristina DAlessandro
First published 2018
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Contents
Citation Information
The chapters in this book were originally published in African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017) and African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 2 (August 2017). When citing this material, please use the original page numbering for each article, as follows:
Introduction
From the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) to the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs): Africa in the post-2015 development Agenda. A geographical perspective
Cristina DAlessandro and Leo C. Zulu
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 118
Chapter 1
Advancing African agency in the new 2030 transformative development agenda
Hany Besada, Jiajun Xu, Annalise Mathers and Richard Carey
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 1944
Chapter 2
From global goals to regional strategies: towards an African approach to SDGs
Giovanni Valensisi and Stephen Karingi
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 4560
Chapter 3
Can using geographical factors leverage private equity to deliver sustainable development results?
Frannie A. Lautier
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 6184
Chapter 4
Reproducing spaces of embeddedness through Islamic NGOs in Sub-Saharan Africa: reflections on the post-2015 development agenda
M. Evren Tok and Ben OBright
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 8599
Chapter 5
Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal
Helen Arfvidsson, David Simon, Michael Oloko and Nishendra Moodley
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 100114
Chapter 6
MDGs to SDGs new goals, same gaps: the continued absence of urban food security in the post-2015 global development agenda
Jane Battersby
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 1 (April 2017), pp. 115129
Chapter 7
The SDG13 to combat climate change: an opportunity for Africa to become a trailblazer?
Agathe Maupin
African Geographical Review, volume 36, issue 2 (August 2017), pp. 131145
