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Title: | African cities and the water-food-climate-energy nexus: an agenda for sustainability and resilience at a local level |
Authors: | Chirisa, Innocent Bandauko, Elmond |
Year: | 2015 |
Periodical: | Urban Forum (ISSN 1874-6330) |
Volume: | 26 |
Issue: | 4 |
Pages: | 391-404 |
Language: | English |
Geographic terms: | Zimbabwe South Africa Tanzania Egypt |
Subjects: | towns urban planning sustainable development |
External link: | https://doi.org/10.1007/s12132-015-9256-6 |
Abstract: | This article seeks to identify and explain the major factors in African cities' reluctance to embracing the water-food-climate-energy nexus, in order to set the agenda for building sustainable regions and cities. It argues for a systems approach and for considering cities, not as isolated entities, but networked systems of defined regions within a country. In doing so, the article brings back the core-periphery syntax, from the regional planning philosophy of the 1960s and 1980s. The article makes use of four case studies of African cities: Bulawayo (Zimbabwe), Cape Town (South Africa), Dar es-Salam (Tanzania) and Cairo (Egypt), to demonstrate the issues and factors prohibiting the incorporation of the water-food-climate-energy nexus in the sustainability agenda. Bibliogr., sum. [Journal abstract, edited] |