Mark Pelling is Reader in Human Geography at King's College London and author of The Vulnerability of Cities (2003). Ben Wisner is retired Professor of Geography and Director of International Studies at CSU at Long Beach, California and is co-editor of Towards a New Map of Africa (2005).
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
