Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
Africa is urbanizing late but fast. This brings many benefits but, as this report shows: thus far, urbanization in Africa, unique in a number of respects, is having deleterious and largely unchecked impacts on the natural environment; the degradation of natural assets and ecosystems within African cities carries tangible economic, fiscal and social costs; there are important opportunities to change the current environmental trajectory of African cities so that they move towards a more harmonious relationship between their natural and built environments. For this to happen, focused action is necessary.
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Main Authors: | White, Roland, Turpie, Jane, Letley, Gwyneth Letley |
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Format: | Report biblioteca |
Language: | en_US |
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World Bank, Washington, DC
2017-05-23
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Subjects: | CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY, ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY, GREEN GROWTH, URBANIZATION, ECOSYSTEMS, NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT, HYDROLOGY, CONSEQUENCES, GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT, URBAN FINANCE, GREEN FINANCE, |
Online Access: | http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26730 |
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