Meeting the Challenge of Risk-Sensitive and Resilient Urban Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for Future Research and Practice
This editorial review paper distills findings from the special Issue Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 26, December 2017
Abstract
This editorial review paper distills key findings from the special Issue and identifies 3 (inter-related) elements that open up a new research frontier for future work on sub-Saharan Africa’s risk and resilience, building on earlier volumes.
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First, understanding the process of risk accumulation in Africa’s urban development, which needs local research that focuses on complex interactions that produce risk and inform how it can be mitigated.
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Second, understanding the linkages between everyday risks (in particular environmental/public health risks), small disasters and extreme events and relative changes in their nature, scale and distribution.
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Third, research that can inform reform of the governance of the urbanisation-risk nexus.
This is an output from the Urban Africa: Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) programme
Citation
Fraser, A., Leck H, Parnell S, Pelling M, Brown D, Lwasa S (2017). Meeting the Challenge of Risk-Sensitive and Resilient Urban Development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for Future Research and Practice, International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction Volume 26, December 2017, Pages 106-109 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.10.001.