Urban planning and public health in Africa historical, theorectical and practical dimensions of a continent's water and sanitation problematic /

Main Author: Njoh, Ambe J.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Farnham, England ; Burlington, Vt. : Ashgate, c2012.
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Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10579691
Table of Contents:
  • A brief history of public health and the built environment
  • The state, ideology, health and built space in Africa
  • Town planning, public health and the colonial project
  • Racism versus health concerns as the rationale for racial segregation
  • Public health implications of modernist planning
  • Hygiene and sanitation conditions in west and central africa
  • Hygiene and sanitation in the Eastern and Southern Africa region
  • Hygiene and sanitation in Northern Africa
  • Solid waste disposal and sanitation technologies, and determinants
  • Of access to improved sanitation
  • Sustainable hygiene and sanitation strategies.