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Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa II

Insights from Eastern and Southern Africa

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Editors:
  1. Alexandros Gasparatos

    1. Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  2. Merle Naidoo

    1. Graduate Programme in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  3. Abubakari Ahmed

    1. Department of Planning, University for Development Studies, Wa, Ghana

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  4. Alice Karanja

    1. Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  5. Kensuke Fukushi

    1. Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

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  6. Osamu Saito

    1. Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), Hayama, Japan

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  7. Kazuhiko Takeuchi

    1. Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), Hayama, Japan

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  • Shed light on how sustainability science approaches can help solve some of the pervasive challenges that Africa faces
  • Offers local case studies throughout Africa that adopt transdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches using methodologies from the natural and the social sciences
  • Provides an authoritative source of information on how sustainability science approaches sustainability challenges in African contexts through the multi-scale and inter/transdisciplinary approach

Part of the book series: Science for Sustainable Societies (SFSS)

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Table of contents (10 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Eastern Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Tackling Child Malnutrition by Strengthening the Linkage Between Agricultural Production, Food Security, and Nutrition in Rural Rwanda

      • Makiko Sekiyama, Hirotaka Matsuda, Geetha Mohan, Ayumi Yanagisawa, Noriko Sudo, Yukiko Amitani et al.
      Pages 3-28

    3. Weather Shocks, Gender, and Household Consumption: Evidence from Urban Households in the Teso Sub-region, Uganda

      • Precious Akampumuza, Kasim Ggombe Munyegera, Hirotaka Matsuda
      Pages 29-62

    4. Indigenous and Local Knowledge Practices and Innovations for Enhancing Food Security Under Climate Change: Examples from Mijikenda Communities in Coastal Kenya

      • Leila Ndalilo, Chemuku Wekesa, Musingo T. E. Mbuvi
      Pages 63-82

    5. Reframing the Challenges and Opportunities for Improved Sanitation Services in Eastern Africa Through Sustainability Science

      • Sara Gabrielsson, Angela Huston, Susan Gaskin
      Pages 83-111

  3. Southern Africa

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 113-113
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    2. Ethanol as a Clean Cooking Alternative in Sub-Saharan Africa: Insights from Sugarcane Production and Ethanol Adoption Sites in Malawi and Mozambique

      • Anne Nyambane, Francis X. Johnson, Carla Romeu–Dalmau, Caroline Ochieng, Alexandros Gasparatos, Shakespear Mudombi et al.
      Pages 115-144

    3. The Effect of Introduced Opuntia (Cactaceae) Species on Landscape Connectivity and Ecosystem Service Provision in Southern Madagascar

      • Rivolala Andriamparany, Jacob Lundberg, Markku Pyykönen, Sebastian Wurz, Thomas Elmqvist
      Pages 145-166

    4. The Legacy of Mine Closure in Kabwe, Zambia: What Can Resilience Thinking Offer to the Mining Sustainability Discourse?

      • Orleans Mfune, Chibuye Florence Kunda-Wamuwi, Tamara Chansa-Kabali, Moses Ngongo Chisola, James Manchisi
      Pages 167-188

    5. Knowledge Co-production in Sub-Saharan African Cities: Building Capacity for the Urban Age

      • Zarina Patel, Ntombini Marrengane, Warren Smit, Pippin M. L. Anderson
      Pages 189-214

  4. Synthesis

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 215-215
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    2. Harnessing Science-Policy Interface Processes for Tackling Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa

      • Graham Paul von Maltitz
      Pages 217-243

    3. Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa: Trade-Offs, Opportunities and Priority Areas for Sustainability Science

      • Alexandros Gasparatos, Abubakari Ahmed, Merle Naidoo, Alice Karanja, Osamu Saito, Kensuke Fukushi et al.
      Pages 245-262

  5. Back Matter

    Pages 263-268
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About this book

The aim of this two-volume book series is to highlight some of the most pervasive sustainability challenges that Sub-Saharan Africa faces. The two volumes contain 20 chapters that illustrate very diverse sustainability challenges throughout the continent, adopting interdisciplinary and problem-oriented research approaches, and methods from the natural and the social sciences. The very diverse case study chapters are put into perspective with chapters that introduce key sustainability challenges using a regional focus. Through this multi-scale and interdisciplinary approach the two volumes provide an authoritative source about the major sustainability challenges in the continent, and how to mobilise such perspectives to develop appropriate solutions. The two volumes have a uniquely broad focus that fills a major gap in the emerging Sustainability Science scholarship.

Parts I-II highlight specific case studies onmajor sustainability challenges from Eastern and Southern Africa. Part III synthesizes the main lessons learnt from the chapters in the two edited volumes. 

Editors and Affiliations

  • Institute for Future Initiatives (IFI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Alexandros Gasparatos, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi

  • Graduate Programme in Sustainability Science – Global Leadership Initiative (GPSS-GLI), The University of Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan

    Merle Naidoo

  • Department of Planning, University for Development Studies, Wa, Ghana

    Abubakari Ahmed

  • Institute for Global Environmental Studies (IGES), Hayama, Japan

    Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Sustainability Challenges in Sub-Saharan Africa II

  • Book Subtitle: Insights from Eastern and Southern Africa

  • Editors: Alexandros Gasparatos, Merle Naidoo, Abubakari Ahmed, Alice Karanja, Kensuke Fukushi, Osamu Saito, Kazuhiko Takeuchi

  • Series Title: Science for Sustainable Societies

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-5358-5

  • Publisher: Springer Singapore

  • eBook Packages: Earth and Environmental Science, Earth and Environmental Science (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd. 2020

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5357-8Published: 06 September 2020

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-981-15-5360-8Published: 07 September 2021

  • eBook ISBN: 978-981-15-5358-5Published: 05 September 2020

  • Series ISSN: 2197-7348

  • Series E-ISSN: 2197-7356

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XI, 268

  • Number of Illustrations: 10 b/w illustrations, 25 illustrations in colour

  • Topics: Sustainable Development, Natural Resources, Development and Sustainability

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