The urban crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa: A threat to human security and sustainable development

Stability

Volumn 2, Issue 1, 2013, Pages

  Hove, Mediel ^a   Ngwerume, Emmaculate Tsitsi ^b   Muchemwa, Cyprian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZIMBABWE   (Zimbabwe)

^b BINDURA UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE EDUCATION   (Zimbabwe)

Author keywords

Crisis; Development; Human security; Sustainable; Threat; Urbanisation

Indexed keywords

EID: 84924771518     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21652627     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5334/sta.ap     Document Type: Article

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