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Environmental Health and Agenda 2030 in Africa : Critical Perspectives
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Environmental Health and Agenda 2030 in Africa : Critical Perspectives
This book draws on diverse perspectives and insights to analyze environmental health within African development and sustainable development in a globalized post-COVID-19 world. It lays bare the profound political ecology contradictions, barriers, and opportunities in African political economy across themes of urbanization and housing, natural resource management, water, nutrition, and knowledge production, and examines their implications for environmental health. This volume brings together original and critical insights into the environmental health implications of the Sustainable Development Goals in Africa.
Contributors outline political ecology frameworks to interrogate landscapes of socio-environmental relations and policy, contributing a diverse yet interconnected theoretical and interdisciplinary analysis of Africa’s development aspirations. Set against the backdrop of environmental health political ecology, this book draws on case studies and focuses on topical issues such as housing, resource extraction, nutrition, gender, mining, and e-waste across key aspects of the society-environment interface. Environmental Health and Agenda 2030 in Africa: Critical Perspectives will be of interest to both undergraduate and graduate students of Development Studies, Public Policy, Global Studies, Environmental Studies, Geography, Political Science, International Relations.
It will also appeal to researchers, policymakers, and development practitioners across Africa and the Global South.
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| To be released | April 6, 2027 |
| ISBN13 | 9781041273370 |
| Publishers | Taylor & Francis Ltd |
| Pages | 300 |
| Dimensions | 150 × 220 × 20 mm · 632 g (Weight (estimated)) |
