Urbanisation without Infrastructures in African Cities: Who Fills in the Gap?
Adriana Allen (DPU/UCL); David Sutterthewaite (discussant)
Date: 23 February 2012Time: 5:00 PM
Finishes: 23 February 2012Time: 7:00 PM
Venue: Brunei GalleryRoom: B102
Type of Event: Seminar
Series: Africa Seminar
This is the second of a series of seminars on the African City organised by CAS.
Adriana Allen is a Senior Lecturer at the Development Planning Unit, UCL, where she directs DPU’s MSc in Environment and Sustainable Development and leads the DPU Research Cluster on Environmental Justice, Urbanisation and Resilience (EJUR).
Her research interests span across the following areas of intellectual enquiry:
- Production, reproduction and transformation of urban environmental (in)justices;
- Citizenship and the governance of service provision;
- Resilience, vulnerability and adaptation to climate change;
- Rural-urban linkages for reciprocal urbanisation.
The seminar is chaired by David Sutterthwaite, Senior Fellow with the Human Settlements Group at the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED). He has been a member of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) since 1998, editor of the international journal Environment and Urbanization and co-author or editor of several Earthscan books including Squatter Citizen (with Jorge E. Hardoy, 1989), The Earthscan Reader in Sustainable Cities (1998), Environmental Problems in an Urbanizing World (with Jorge E. Hardoy & Diana Mitlin, 2000) and Adapting Cities to Climate Change (with Jane Bicknell and David Dodman, 2009). He advises many international agencies on urban and environmental policy, and in 2004, he was awarded the Volvo Environment Prize.
You can download the full African City programme.
