Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from Urban Africa

Introduction * Conceptualising Urbanisation, Disaster Risk and Climate Change * Part I * A Safer Urban Future for Africa? * A Tool Kit for Urban Risk Reduction * Part II * Dar es Salaam, Tanzania: Building Disaster Resilient Communities * Algiers, Algeria: Evaluating Seismic Vulnerability * Greater Accra Metropolitan Area, Ghana: Environmental Health and Disaster Monitoring * Kisii and Kisumu, Kenya: Road Traffic Accidents as an Everyday Hazard * Saint Louis, Senegal: Multi-actor Governance for Flood Risk Reduction * Cape Town, South Africa: Fire Risk in Informal Settlements * Part III * A Vision of a Safer Urban Africa * Index