8 pages., Online via Directory of Open Access Journals (DOAJ.org). 8 pages., Author used a social vulnerability approach with a goal of improving conditions for persons and places most at risk. "However, this approach faces serious contradictions in both the disasters and development scenes." "...The promise of 'developed nations,' build around massive use of fossil fuels, puts global and African economic growth on a collision course with environmental calamity."
Mangheni, Margaret Nijjingo (author), Ssenkaali, Mulondo (author), and Onyai, Fred (author)
Format:
Book chapter
Publication Date:
2010-01-01
Published:
Uganda
Location:
Agricultural Communications Documentation Center, Funk Library, University of Illinois Document Number: D08696
Notes:
Pages 24-33 in Gordon Wilson, Pamela Furniss and Richard Kimbowa (eds.), Environment, development and sustainability: perspectives and cases from around the world. Oxford University Press, Oxford, England. 290 pages.