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

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...

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Main Authors:	White, Roland, Turpie, Jane, Letley, Gwyneth Letley
Format:	Report
Language:	en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2017
Subjects:	CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY GREEN GROWTH URBANIZATION ECOSYSTEMS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HYDROLOGY CONSEQUENCES GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN FINANCE GREEN FINANCE
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spelling	okr-10986-267302021-05-25T09:53:26Z Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services White, Roland Turpie, Jane Letley, Gwyneth Letley CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY GREEN GROWTH URBANIZATION ECOSYSTEMS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HYDROLOGY CONSEQUENCES GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN FINANCE GREEN FINANCE 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. 2017-05-23T20:33:50Z 2017-05-23T20:33:50Z 2017-05-23 Report P148662 http://hdl.handle.net/10986/26730 en_US CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Economic & Sector Work :: City Development Strategy Economic & Sector Work Africa Sub-Saharan Africa Nigeria Senegal South Africa Tanzania Uganda
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topic	CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY GREEN GROWTH URBANIZATION ECOSYSTEMS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HYDROLOGY CONSEQUENCES GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN FINANCE GREEN FINANCE
spellingShingle	CITY DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY GREEN GROWTH URBANIZATION ECOSYSTEMS NATURAL RESOURCE MANAGEMENT HYDROLOGY CONSEQUENCES GREEN URBAN DEVELOPMENT URBAN FINANCE GREEN FINANCE White, Roland Turpie, Jane Letley, Gwyneth Letley Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
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description	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.
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author	White, Roland Turpie, Jane Letley, Gwyneth Letley
author_facet	White, Roland Turpie, Jane Letley, Gwyneth Letley
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title	Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
title_short	Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
title_full	Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
title_fullStr	Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
title_full_unstemmed	Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services
title_sort	greening africa's cities : enhancing the relationship between urbanization, environmental assets, and ecosystem services
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
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Greening Africa's Cities : Enhancing the Relationship between Urbanization, Environmental Assets, and Ecosystem Services

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