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Community Resilience under the Impact of Urbanisation and Climate Change Cases and Experiences from Zimbabwe / edited by Innocent Chirisa & Christopher Mabeza.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Community development--Zimbabwe.
- Community development.
- Climatic changes--Social aspects--Zimbabwe.
- Climatic changes.
- Urbanization--Environmental aspects--Zimbabwe.
- Urbanization.
- Zimbabwe--Social conditions.
- Zimbabwe.
- Zimbabwe--Economic conditions.
- Zimbabwe--Environmental conditions.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF (x, 241 pages) :) color illustrations.
- Manufacture:
- Baltimore, Md. : Project MUSE, 2019
- Place of Publication:
- Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2019
- Summary:
- As the world today faces messy problems, what in some circles has been called global weirding, the term resilience has taken centre stage. This is crunch time--as we grapple with the negative effects of both climate change and urbanisation. Some commentators have compared the huge problems we face today to Oom Schalk's proverbial leopard waiting for us in the withaak's shade. Do we endlessly count Oom Schalk's proverbial leopard's spots? This is the question posed by a stellar cast of academics, researchers, and experts whose contributions in this text is a rallying cry for action to build resilience to the challenging impact of urbanisation and climate change. To that end, this volume gives hope about the potential for human agency. Our challenge however, is to re-examine our values, to change our conservation conversation and return to a more wise and holistic understanding of ourselves and our place in the Universe. Perhaps, then only can the obituaries on our demise stay locked in the drawer.
- Contents:
- Community resilience under urbanisation and climate change
- an overview / Innocent Chirisa, Brilliant Mavhima & Archimedes Muzenda
- Consilience as the basis for community resilience : lessons for Zimbabwe / Innocent Chirisa, Nicq Paradza & Liaison Mukarwi
- Vulnerability to climate change and resilience of child-headed households in Buhera District / Vincent Mabvurira & Memory Mpambela
- Urban resilience in cities of the developing world with reference to Harare, Zimbabwe / Phineas T Dohwe & Ndarova Audrey Kwangwama
- Resilience : an account of the survival and lifestyles of street children in Harare / Samson Mhizha & Patrick Chiroro
- Community resilience and the sustainable development goals in Zimbabwe / Joseph Kamuzhanje
- Everyday local level sources of weather forecasting in rural Zimbabwe in the face of climate change / Ignatius Gutsa
- Thwarting the sword of Damocles : community resilience challenges in the age of the Anthropocene / Christopher Mabeza
- The politics of community resilience : a closer look into the settlement hierarchy of Zimbabwe / Charity Manyeruke & Archimedes Muzenda
- Externally-fostered sorghum and millets production in semi-arid regions of Zimbabwe / Julius Musevenzi
- Havana (Cuba) and Harare (Zimbabwe) as innovative hubs of resilient systems in urban food security / Innocent Chirisa & Elmond Bandauko.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9956-550-07-8
- OCLC:
- 1085648340
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