Overview
- This open access book presents a multidisciplinary approach on developing cities
- Places the UN SDG's at the heart of research questions
- Serves as an example to researchers, policy makers, and practitioners
- This book is available open access, which mean that you have free and unlimited access
Part of the book series: Sustainable Development Goals Series (SDGS)
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Table of contents (13 chapters)
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Front Matter
Keywords
- Open access
- Sustainable development in southern Africa
- Mountain cities in Africa
- Informal settlements in Africa
- Homeland cities South Africa
- Sustainable development goals and urban planning
- Informal urban settlements southern Africa
- Mountain economy in Africa
- Migrations and African cities
- Natural resources and cities in Africa
- Post-apartheid cities and development
- Mountain society in Africa
- African urban communities
- Commons and cities in Africa
- African urban sociology
- African urban economy
- Urban infrastructure and informal settlements
About this book
Editors and Affiliations
About the editors
Andrea Membretti (PhD in Sociology) is Assistant Professor of Territorial Sociology at the University of Pavia (Italy) and Research Fellow at the University of the Free State, Afromontane Research Unit (South Africa). He is also Research Affiliate at the Department of Cultures, Politics & Society of the University of Turin (Italy), where he leads a national project on new peopling in the Alps. His main field of research is migration and mobility to/from mountain and remote regions, in relationship to sustainable development.
Susan Jean Taylor (PhD) is a development consultant with experience in researching, writing and lecturing about climate change and social/development issues in South Africa and Africa. She has worked in the research sector doing crop biotechnology, in nature conservation and in the NGO sector as a climate change activist, and then in the academic sector as a science writer. Her current interest is cities and climate change adaptation.Jess L. Delves is a researcher at Global Mountain Safeguard Research (GLOMOS), a joint research programme of the United Nations University Institute for Environment and Human Security (Germany) and Eurac Research (Italy). Her research takes a political ecology perspective in investigating land degradation and water management in Lesotho and South Africa.
Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Sustainable Futures in Southern Africa’s Mountains
Book Subtitle: Multiple Perspectives on an Emerging City
Editors: Andrea Membretti, Sue Jean Taylor, Jess L. Delves
Series Title: Sustainable Development Goals Series
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15773-8
Publisher: Springer Cham
eBook Packages: Social Sciences, Social Sciences (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2023
Hardcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15772-1Published: 31 January 2023
Softcover ISBN: 978-3-031-15775-2Published: 31 January 2023
eBook ISBN: 978-3-031-15773-8Published: 30 January 2023
Series ISSN: 2523-3084
Series E-ISSN: 2523-3092
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XIV, 192
Number of Illustrations: 6 b/w illustrations, 33 illustrations in colour
Topics: Sustainable Development, Human Geography, Climate, general