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Urban growth and land degradation in developing cities

by Maconachie, Roy.

Additional authors: ebrary, Inc.

Series: King's SOAS studies in development geography Published by : Ashgate, (Aldershot ; | Burlington, VT :) Physical details: xx, 194 p. : ill., maps.

Subject(s): Urbanization -- Nigeria -- Kano Metropolitan Area. | Regional planning -- Nigeria -- Kano Metropolitan Area. | Land degradation -- Nigeria -- Kano Metropolitan Area. | Sustainable development -- Nigeria -- Kano Metropolitan Area. | Electronic books.

Year: 2007

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Includes bibliographical references (p. [169]-192) and index.

Introduction -- Sustainability, land degradation and peri-urban expansion -- Historical background to farming in the Kano close-settled zone -- The area of study : the Kano close-settled zone -- Land, soil and sustainable livelihoods -- Urban pressure and woodland degradation : perceptions of tree cover change in the Kano close-settled zone -- Water quality, urban waste and sustainability -- Sustainability challenged? seeing beyond Kano's political-ecological footprint.

Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2014. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.

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