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Record Nr.

UNINA9910136574203321

Titolo

Handbook on Africa : challenges and issues of the 21st century / / editors, Whitney Sherman

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York : , : Nova Publishers, , 2016

©2016

ISBN

1-5361-0076-5

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (346 pages) : illustrations

Collana

African Political, Economic, and Security Issues

Disciplina

338.960905

Soggetti

Economic development - Africa - 21st century

Economic development - Africa - International cooperation

Electronic books.

Africa Economic conditions 21st century

Africa Social conditions

Africa Environmental conditions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

US vote in African Development Bank / Djeto Assané and Nicole Parks -- The PEACE model : a sustainable approach to conflict prevention and resolution in Africa / Enyonam Canice Kudonoo -- The energy-development nexus in Sub-Saharan Africa / Raphael M. Jingura and Reckson Kamusoko -- The vulnerable nature of water security in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) : a country by country analysis / Gurudeo Anand Tularam and Omar Moalin Hassan -- Between wizards and devils of the forest on development, health and diseases in Sierra Leone / Javier Rodríguez Mir -- Ebola and rumours in Sierra Leone : contextualising and elucidating perceptions of ebola through rumours / Rosie Wigmore -- Late quaternary environmental change in the Namibia of southern Africa / Bingqi Zhu, Xunming Wang, Jingjie Yu, Patrick Rioual, Yichi Zhang, and Ping Wang -- Fluorspar deposits at Okorusu, north-central Namibia : economic importance, history of mining, and geology / Richard D. Hagni -- Rabies in Namibia, more than a horrendous disease : the social, environmental and economic challenges faced / Scott, T.P.,



Coetzer, A. and Nel, L.H -- Malaria : an environmental health issue with tremendous socioeconomic impact on households in Democratic Republic of Congo / Di-Mosi Roger Wumba, Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Luzitu Severin Nangana, Sakiko Kanbara, Sifa Marie-Joelle Muchanga, Madone Mandina, Kei Tanaka, Stanislas Wembonyama, and Sayumi Nojima -- Solid waste management and environmental justice in Kinshasa, the Democratic Republic of Congo / Nzalalemba Serge Kubanza and Danny Simatele -- Disasters and related health issues in Democratic Republic of Congo : epidemiologic profile and perspectives for efficient health care delivery / Nlandu Roger Ngatu, Sayumi Nojima, Jean Boleme-Izankoy, Francoise Malonga-Kaj, Di-Mosi Roger Wumba, Sakiko Kanbara, Mitsunori Ikeda, and Ayami Nakano -- Education and income inequality in the Democratic Republic of Congo / Christian S. Otchia -- Which demographic quintile benefits from public health expenditure in Nigeria : a marginal benefit analysis / Kanayo Ogujiuba and Nancy Stiegler -- Fighting female vulnerability with football : challenging the gender effects of poverty in the South African context / Cassandra Ogunniyi.