Impact Initiative: Recent submissions
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Cleaner Production Audit at Kagem Mining Canteens, Lufwanyama District, Copperbelt Province, Zambia
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)Cleaner production in the view of assessing the utilisation efficiency of raw materials, water and energy consumption as well as waste generation and management at Kagem Mine Canteens is a systematic approach aimed at ... -
Tomatoes and Taxi Ranks: Running Our Cities to Fill the Food Gap
(African Centre for Cities, University of Cape Town, 2018)Despite their apparent abundance of resources, our cities often leave the urban poor hungry, heavy, and sick. This book isn’t really about the food that most people eat in Africa’s cities, though. Rather, it’s about the ... -
African Dreams: Locating Urban Infrastructure in the 2030 Sustainable Developmental Agenda
(Taylor & Francis Group, 2018)This paper examines African urban infrastructure and service delivery as an entry point for connecting African aspirations with the harsh developmental imperatives of urban management, creating a dialogue between scholarly ... -
Food Poverty in Kisumu, Kenya
(Routledge, 2018)This chapter investigates the extent of food insecurity in Kisumu and examines the sources of food of the city’s residents. Seventy-one percent of sampled households in Kisumu were found to be moderately or severely food ... -
Consuming Urban Poverty Field Report No.2 Food systems description - Kitwe
(University of Cape Town, 2018)This report is based on the fieldwork conducted in Kitwe analyzing the flow of food within the markets. The information presented in this report is based on published literature, filed observations and ... -
Breaking Cycles of Risk Accumulation in African Cities
(United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat), 2020)This publication covers a range of disaster risk management (DRM) themes, from community participation in DRM data collection to risk mapping and from urban waste management to hazard accumulation in urban risk traps. Yet ... -
Resilience Planning Under Information Scarcity in Fast Growing African Cities and Towns: The CityRAP Approach
(Elsevier Ltd, 2020)Urban planners seeking to enhance resilience contend with the complexity of interdependent systems and severe gaps in data and information. This complexity-capacity gap is most evident in smaller, rapidly growing cities. ... -
Revealing and Responding to Multiple Health Risks in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan African Cities
(Springer, 2019)This paper underscores the need for detailed data on health and disaster risks for sub-Saharan African cities, particularly for their informal settlements. Systems that should contribute to the information base on health ... -
The Routledge Handbook of Urban Resilience
(Routledge, 2020)This volume provides a comprehensive discussion and overview of urban resilience, including socio-ecological and economic hazard and disaster resilience. It provides a summary of state of the art thinking on resilience, ... -
Understanding the Role of Networks in Stimulating Adaptation Actions on the Ground: Examples from Two African Case Studies
(Springer, 2019)The networks that support collaboration and knowledge exchange around climate risk and response are emerging as central to climate adaptation. Yet, there is limited empirical knowledge about the conditions by which these ... -
Urban Resilience Building in Fast-growing African Cities
(Urban ARK, 2019)Small- and medium-sized cities and towns in sub-Saharan Africa are growing fast and accumulating risks. Local governments seek to build the resilience of their city in conditions of complex interdependent urban systems and ... -
Filling the Data Gaps on Every Day and Disaster Risks in Cities: the Case of Ibadan
(Urban ARK, 2019)Many cities in sub-Saharan Africa lack official records of deaths and of serious illnesses and injuries from everyday hazards and disaster events at all scales. This is a major limitation to effective planning for risk ... -
From Global Climate Narratives to Local Urban Adaptation Decisions
(Urban ARK, 2019)Dominant global climate change narratives and framings frequently do not translate well into local adaptation decision making. Narratives, such as increasing droughts, increasing flooding, and more frequent extreme events, ... -
Improving Solid Waste Management (SWM) Practices and Addressing Associated Risks to Health in Dakar, Senegal
(Urban ARK, 2018)Dakar can efficiently handle current and future volumes of solid waste if the following steps are taken: i) informal waste collection is synchronised with that of the municipal authorities; ii) environmental laws and ... -
Assessing Health Risks in Informal Settlements in Sub-Saharan African Cities
(Urban ARK, 2018)Around half of the urban population in sub-Saharan Africa live in informal settlements, lacking the basic infrastructure and services on which good health depends. These include safe, regular water piped to homes, good ... -
A Spectrum of Methods for a Spectrum of Risk: Generating Evidence to Understand and Reduce Urban Risk in sub-Saharan Africa
(John Wiley & Sons Ltd, 2018)Many African towns and cities face a range of hazards, which can best be described as representing a “spectrum of risk” of events that can cause death, illness or injury, and impoverishment. Yet despite the growing numbers ... -
Emerging Climate Change-related Public Health Challenges: the Potential Impacts of Temperature Rise on Health Outcomes in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
(Urban ARK, 2018)In Dar es Salaam, climate model analysis strongly suggests that both day- and night-time temperatures will rise, with heat waves also expected to increase. Heat will likely aggravate many existing health and well-being ... -
Urban Dynamics and Everyday Hazards and Disaster Risks in Ibadan, Nigeria
(Urban ARK, 2018)The lack of systematic and homogenous records of people being impacted by everyday hazards and disaster events at all scales in many African cities is a major limitation to effective planning for risk reduction. A preliminary ... -
Why Sub-Saharan cities should look into Parametric Insurance Schemes to Enhance their Climate Risk Management Policy
(Urban ARK, 2018)For the global humanitarian community, disaster risk is most concerning in developing countries where natural hazards are increasingly threatening their fragile economies and the lives, health, and livelihoods of vulnerable ... -
Inserting Rights and Justice into Urban Resilience: a Focus on Everyday Risk in Cities in the South
(Urban ARK, 2018)Community-based organisation and action can contribute greatly to disaster risk reduction, and interlinked to this, to building resilience to the impacts of climate change. However, as the case study cities from the Urban ...