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Urban planning and public health in Africa : historical, theoretical and practical dimensions of a continent's water and sanitation problematic
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- Creator
- Ambe J. Njoh
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Farnham, Surrey, England ; Burlington, VT : Ashgate, [2012]
- ©2012
- Physical Details
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- xii, 237 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
- ISBNs
- 9781409443193, 1409443191, 1409443183, 9781409443186
- OCLC
- ocn801409218, ocn777364357
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [213]-225) and index.
- A brief history of public health and the built environment -- The state, ideology, health and built space in Africa -- Town planning, public health and the colonial project -- Racism versus health concerns as the rationale for racial segregation -- Public health implications of modernist planning -- Hygiene and sanitation conditions in West and Central Africa -- Hygiene and sanitation in the Eastern and Southern Africa region -- Hygiene and sanitation in Northern Africa -- Solid waste disposal and sanitation technologies, and determinants of access to improved sanitation -- Sustainable hygiene and sanitation strategies