The state of African resilience : understanding dimensions of vulnerability and adaptation /

During the last decade, sub-Saharan Africa enjoyed unprecedented rates of economic growth, with new technologies, better governance, and increasing investment flows creating new opportunities for innovation and economic and human development. Yet across the continent, vulnerable populations continue...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autores Corporativos: Center for Strategic and International Studies (Washington, D.C.), United States Global Development Lab, ResilientAfrica Network, Higher Education Solutions Network
Otros Autores: Cooke, Jennifer G. (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Lanham, MD : Rowman & Littlefield, 2015.
Colección:CSIS report.
Temas:
Crises > Social aspects > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Community development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Economic development > Africa, Sub-Saharan.
Crises (Sciences sociales) > Aspect social > Afrique subsaharienne.
Développement économique > Afrique subsaharienne.
Développement communautaire > Afrique subsaharienne.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > Public Policy > Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Anthropology > Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Popular Culture.
Community development
Economic development
Sub-Saharan Africa
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Introduction.
  • Building a network of resilience scholars and innovators: evolution of the ReslientAfrica Network.
  • The RAN resilience framework: developing a tool to analyze community resilience in Africa.
  • Deliberative polling: deepening understanding of community insights and priorities.
  • Tracing pathways of resilience: identifying dimensions of resilience and exploring the linkages among them.
  • RILab preliminary findings: context-specific resilience frameworks and opportunities for resilience innovation.
  • Identifying pathways for innovation and intervention.

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