Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

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作者：

White, Roland

来源地址：

http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26730

关键词：

CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY;  ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY;  GREEN GROWTH;  URBANIZATION;  ECOSYSTEMS;  NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT;  HYDROLOGY;  CONSEQUENCES;  GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT;  URBAN FINANCE;  GREEN FINANCE;  Report; 

年份：

2017

出版地：

Washington,USA

语种：

English

摘要：

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.