Book Review

Disaster Risk Reduction: Cases from urban Africa

Willi Faling
Jàmbá: Journal of Disaster Risk Studies | Vol 3, No 1 | a37 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/jamba.v3i1.37 | © 2010 Willi Faling | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 25 April 2010 | Published: 25 April 2010

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Willi Faling, Department of Town and Regional Planning University of Pretoria, South Africa

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Very little has been written on the growing number of urban disaster risk hotspots, or the integration of disaster risk reduction and human settlement planning in Africa aside from publications by the World Bank, United Nations and a few other international organisations. This book aspires to fill these gaps, and I recommend it as essential reading for any urban development or disaster management practitioner or academic concerned with risk reduction in African cities. I also recommended the book for courses on sustainable human settlements, development planning and disaster risk reduction.

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