Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa`s Infrastructure (Africa Development Forum), James E. Neumann, Kenneth M. Strzepek, Raffaello Cervigni, Rikard Liden

Автор: World Bank
Название: Enhancing The Climate Resilience Of Africa`S Infrastructure
ISBN: 1464804664 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464804663
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: To sustain Africa's growth, and accelerate the eradication of extreme poverty, investment in infrastructure is fundamental. In 2010, the Africa Infrastructure Country Diagnostic found that to enable Africa to fill its infrastructure gap, some US$93 billion per year for the next decade will need to be invested. The Program for Infrastructure Development in Africa (PIDA), endorsed in 2012 by the continent s Heads of State and Government, lays out an ambitious long-term plan for closing Africa s infrastructure including trough step increases in hydroelectric power generation and water storage capacity. Much of this investment will support the construction of long-lived infrastructure (e.g. dams, power stations, irrigation canals), which may be vulnerable to changes in climatic patterns, the direction and magnitude of which remain significantly uncertain.Enhancing the Climate Resilience of Africa's Infrastructure evaluates -using for the first time a single consistent methodology and the state-of-the-arte climate scenarios-, the impacts of climate change on hydro-power and irrigation expansion plans in Africa s main rivers basins (Niger, Senegal, Volta, Congo, Nile, Zambezi, Orange); and outlines an approach to reduce climate risks through suitable adjustments to the planning and design process.The book finds that failure to integrate climate change in the planning and design of power and water infrastructure could entail, in scenarios of drying climate conditions, losses of hydropower revenues between 5% and 60% (depending on the basin); and increases in consumer expenditure for energy up to 3 times the corresponding baseline values. In in wet climate scenarios, business-as-usual infrastructure development could lead to foregone revenues in the range of 15% to 130% of the baseline, to the extent that the larger volume of precipitation is not used to expand the production of hydropower. Despite the large uncertainty on whether drier or wetter conditions will prevail in the future in Africa, the book finds that by modifying existing investment plans to explicitly handle the risk of large climate swings, can cut in half or more the cost that would accrue by building infrastructure on the basis of the climate of the past.

Автор: Raffaello Cervigni, Michael Morris
Название: Confronting Drought in Africa`s Drylands: Opportunities for Enhancing Resilience
ISBN: 1464808171 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781464808173
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Using an original modeling framework, this report identifies promising interventions, quantifies their likely costs and benefits, and describes the policy trade-offs that will need to be addressed to reduce the vulnerability and increase the resilience of the hundreds of millions of people living in dryland regions of sub-Saharan Africa.

Название: Enhancing Women-Focused Investments in Climate and Disaster Resilience
ISBN: 9292622110 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789292622114
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This publication explores why targeted investments in women are crucial to increase resilience to climate change and disasters and to achieve broader sustainable development.

Such investments include human resource development, institutional strengthening, financial literacy, the promotion of women’s voice and representation, and learning and skills development. The publication explains why women-focused investments are necessary for climate resilience and identifies the key characteristics of such investments. It also discusses how a more supportive enabling environment can be developed.

Автор: David Favaloro
Название: Risk Management Role of Insurance in Energy Infrastructure Security & Resilience
ISBN: 1628089369 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781628089363
Издательство: Nova Science
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Описание: The purpose of this work is to improve service learning research and practice through strengthening its theoretical base. The authors bring theoretical perspectives from a wide variety of disciplines to bear as they critically review past research, describe assessment methods and instruments, develop future research agendas, and consider implications of theory-based research for enhanced practice.

Автор: Walter Leal Filho; Simane Belay; Jokasha Kalangu;
Название: Climate Change Adaptation in Africa
ISBN: 3319841785 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783319841786
Издательство: Springer
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Цена: 186330.00 T
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Описание: This collection showcases experiences from research and field projects in climate change adaptation on the African continent.

Автор: Nuno Gil, Anne Stafford, Innocent Musonda
Название: Duality by Design: The Global Race to Build Africa`s Infrastructure
ISBN: 1108473164 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108473163
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Building upon extensive research in Africa, this book analyses the challenges of designing organizations for socioeconomic development. Leveraging the empirical findings, the editors propose new conceptual framing for organizing to concomitantly build institutions and basic infrastructure. It will appeal to students, researchers and practitioners.

Автор: Banerjee Sudeshna Ghosh, Morella Elvira
Название: Africa`s Water and Sanitation Infrastructure: Access, Affordability, and Alternatives
ISBN: 0821384570 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821384572
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: Collects a wealth of primary and secondary information to present the most up-to-date and comprehensive quantitative snapshot of water and sanitation sectors. It evaluates the challenges to the water and sanitation sectors within the urban and rural areas and deepens our understanding of drivers of coverage expansion in the context of financing, institutional reforms, and efficiency improvements.

Название: Duality by design
ISBN: 1108461034 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781108461030
Издательство: Cambridge Academ
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Описание: Building upon extensive research in Africa, this book analyses the challenges of designing organizations for socioeconomic development. Leveraging the empirical findings, the editors propose new conceptual framing for organizing to concomitantly build institutions and basic infrastructure. It will appeal to students, researchers and practitioners.

Автор: Leach
Название: Beyond the Woodfuel Crisis
ISBN: 1138987832 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781138987838
Издательство: Taylor&Francis
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Описание: People scratching a living from parched land, women walking miles for scraps of firewood are both familiar images of Africa. But, in many places, people, with the help of governments and aid agencies, are putting the land into good shape, growing more food and creating a healthy cover of trees. This book joins the ?literature of hope? by looking at these advances from the viewpoint of the energy crisis of the poor. This crisis can only be solved by going beyond the narrow confines of energy to consider all the needs of local people and the potential for change. Drawing on a wide range of case histories, the authors describe the gains in farming and forestry ? and woodfuel supply ? that have come about through this broader, people-centered approach. They also write about woodfuel prices, markets and other key elements of survival strategies for the cities. Huge efforts will be needed to recover from the failures of the past, but Leach and Mearns show that important lessons are at last being learned and that new roads to success can be mapped. Originally published in 1988

Автор: Estache, Ianchovichina, Bacon &
Название: Infrastructure And Employment Creation In The Middle East And North Africa
ISBN: 082139665X ISBN-13(EAN): 9780821396650
Издательство: Mare Nostrum (Eurospan)
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Описание: This study assesses the potential for job creation through infrastructure investment in the Middle East and North Africa. The region has experience in making the most of infrastructure investments, but maintaining and spreading the momentum in infrastructure will be important to support future growth and job creation. To do so, policymakers will have to recognize that there are large differences in initial conditions across the region in terms of starting stock, needs, fiscal commitments, private sector participation and job creation potential. Overall, the region’s infrastructure needs through 2020 are quite large and estimated at about 106 billion dollars per year or 6.9 percent of the annual regional GDP. The differences in infrastructure and maintenance needs across sub-regions are also impressive, with developing oil exporters expected to require almost 11 percent of their GDP annually, while the oil importing countries and the GCC oil exporters expected to need approximately 6 and 5 percent of their GDP, respectively. Investment and rehabilitation needs are likely to be especially high in the electricity and transport sectors, particularly roads. Rehabilitation needs are expected to account for slightly more than half of total infrastructure needs. While oil exporters will be able to meet their national infrastructure needs if they maintain investment spending at rates prevailing in the 2000s, oil importers will fall short. The infrastructure sector has the potential to contribute to employment creation in MENA. The region could generate 2.0 million direct jobs and 2.5 million direct, indirect and induced infrastructure-related jobs just by meeting estimated, annual investment needs. However, the potential varies greatly across countries, and infrastructure alone will not resolve MENA’s unemployment problem. Going forward, decisions on what types of public spending to expand and what to downsize in order to achieve balanced budgets will have important implications for jobs. In designing country specific solutions, governments will have to tackle predictable challenges: the governance of job creation, the proper targeting and fiscal costs assessment of subsidies needed to create jobs, the design and fiscal costs of the (re)training programs needed and the expectations on the job creation effects of infrastructure.

Автор: Estache
Название: Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa
ISBN: 1137381493 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781137381491
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: Infrastructure and Poverty in Sub-Saharan Africa analyzes the extent to which, how, and how fast the infrastructure needs of the poor have been met in Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA).

Автор: Popkova Elena G., Sergi Bruno S., Haabazoka Lubinda
Название: Supporting Inclusive Growth and Sustainable Development in Africa - Volume I: Sustainability in Infrastructure Development
ISBN: 3030419789 ISBN-13(EAN): 9783030419783
Издательство: Springer
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Описание: This edited volume explores and dissects Africa`s economic growth and sustainable development using an optimal conceptual model of the progressive continent`s development up to and until 2030. Africa is studied not against the background of developed (OECD) and leading developing (e.g.