Urban growth and land degradation in developing cities change and challenges in Kano, Nigeria /
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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Aldershot ; Burlington, VT :
Ashgate,
c2007.
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| Series: | King's SOAS studies in development geography
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| Online Access: | http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10211477 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction
- Sustainability, land degradation and peri-urban expansion
- Historical background to farming in the Kano close-settled zone
- The area of study : the Kano close-settled zone
- Land, soil and sustainable livelihoods
- Urban pressure and woodland degradation : perceptions of tree cover change in the Kano close-settled zone
- Water quality, urban waste and sustainability
- Sustainability challenged? seeing beyond Kano's political-ecological footprint.