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Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities (Kings Soas Studies in Development Geography)

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Author(s): Roy Maconachie
Year: 2007

Language: English
Pages: 194

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures......Page 8
List of Tables......Page 10
List of Plates......Page 12
Preface......Page 14
List of Abbreviations......Page 18
Glossary of Hausa Words......Page 20
1 Introduction......Page 22
2 Sustainability, Land Degradation and Peri-Urban Expansion......Page 44
3 Historical Background to Farming in the Kano Close-Settled Zone......Page 60
4 The Area of Study: The Kano Close-Settled Zone......Page 76
5 Land, Soil and Sustainable Livelihoods......Page 94
6 Urban Pressure and Woodland Degradation: Perceptions of Tree Cover Change in the Kano Close-Settled Zone......Page 132
7 Water Quality, Urban Waste and Sustainability......Page 156
8 Sustainability Challenged? Seeing beyond Kano’s ‘Political-Ecological Footprint’......Page 178
Bibliography......Page 190
M......Page 214
W......Page 215