2021
DOI: 10.5871/jba/009s9.039
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Climate change and strategic low-carbon planning in African cities after COVID-19: inclusiveness or chaos?

Abstract: Cities in sub-Saharan African countries are feeling the impact of climate change with an increase in climate refugees and they have to deal with more intense flooding, land degradation and erosion, droughts, and heatwaves affecting in particular the poor living in informal settlements. Strategies on how to adapt and move to more resilient cities are being designed. But the question is how this transition can be done while municipalities in sub-Saharan Africa are facing difficulties coping with demographic grow… Show more

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“…Next, Xavier Lemaire (2021) focuses on cities in sub-Saharan Africa which are on the front line of climate destabilisation and migration. These cities have to deal with more intense flash floods, land degradation and erosion, droughts, and heatwaves affecting in particular the poor living in informal settlements.…”
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“…Next, Xavier Lemaire (2021) focuses on cities in sub-Saharan Africa which are on the front line of climate destabilisation and migration. These cities have to deal with more intense flash floods, land degradation and erosion, droughts, and heatwaves affecting in particular the poor living in informal settlements.…”
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confidence: 99%