Urban Growth and Land Degradation in Developing Cities : Change and Challenges in Kano Nigeria (Hardcover)

Contents: Preface; Glossary of Hausa words; Introduction; Sustainability, land degradation and peri-urban expansion; Historical background to farming in the Kano close-settled zone; Land, soil and sustainable livelihoods; Urban pressure and woodland degradation: perceptions of tree cover change in the Kano close-settled zone; Water quality, urban waste and sustainability; Sustainability challenged? Seeing beyond Kano's 'political-ecological footprint'; Bibliography; Index.