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Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate (2017)
Journal Article
Pelling, M., Leck, H., Pasquini, L., Ajibade, I., Osuteye, E., Parnell, S., …Boubacar, S. (2018). Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate. Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability, 31, 10-15. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cosust.2017.11.005

For cities in sub-Saharan Africa a 1.5 °C increase in global temperature will bring forward the urgency of meeting basic needs in sanitation, drinking water and land-tenure, and underlying governance weaknesses. The challenges of climate sensitive ma... Read More about Africa's urban adaptation transition under a 1.5° climate.

Africa’s urban risk and resilience (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Leck, H., Parnell, S., & Pelling, M. (2017). Africa’s urban risk and resilience. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26, 1-6. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.09.050

The literature on disaster risk and its reduction in Africa’s urban centres remains limited, despite evidence of disaster risks increasing with urban growth. This Special Issue brings together new synthetic reviews, detailed empirical case studies an... Read More about Africa’s urban risk and resilience.

Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A., Leck, H., Parnell, S., Pelling, M., Brown, D., & Lwasa, S. (2017). Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice. International Journal of Disaster Risk Reduction, 26, 106-109. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijdrr.2017.10.001

At the heart of the papers in this Special Issue is the call for research and practice to move to understand and act on the direct and indirect interlinkages between urban development and risk accumulation processes; a broader conception of risk on a... Read More about Meeting the challenge of risk-sensitive and resilient urban development in sub-Saharan Africa: Directions for future research and practice.

The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk (2017)
Journal Article
Fraser, A. (2017). The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk. Environment and Planning A, 49(12), 2835-2852. https://doi.org/10.1177/0308518X17732341

© 2017, © The Author(s) 2017. Studies of urban disaster and climate change risk have increasingly invoked governmentality as a theoretical frame for understanding how urban risk governance functions. This article argues that the use of governmentalit... Read More about The missing politics of urban vulnerability: The state and the co-production of climate risk.