Bøker av Ambe J. Njoh

The units of analysis roughly correspond with the major United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP) regions of the world, including sub-Saharan Africa, Middle-East and North Africa, Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe, North America, and Latin America and the Caribbean.

Established indicators of development suggest that, as a group, African countries lag behind their counterparts in other regions with respect to public health. This book suggests non-financial factors as the source of sanitation problems on the continent, and argues the need to re-connect urban planning to public health.

The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. This book addresses issues which might provide some insights into the matter.

Why do authorities in post-colonial African states continue to employ European or Western planning models? What are the implications for societal groups? Several decades following independence, this book provides empirical research to answer these questions.