Both spatial planning and development planning practices in municipalities are critical for energy efficient, low carbon futures. Sensible spatial planning is a precondition for sustainable transport, while placing appropriate conditions on building developments can support energy efficiency greatly.
This report looks at the reason cities in Sub-Saharan Africa are experiencing rapid population growth yet their economic growth has not kept pace (World Bank, 2017).
This report is directed at addressing part of this knowledge deficit of the lack of an adequate understanding of the natural environment and the extent of urban environmental degradation in Africa, its economic and human costs, and the complex interplay between urban development, natural asset decline, and the value of ecosystem services provision (International Bank for Reconstruction and Development and The World Bank, 2017).
This concept note aims to introduce the main themes around the issue of informal settlement development in the developing world, with a particular focus on electrification and informal settlements, and providing other formal urban services such as water and sanitation (Lemaire and Kerr, 2016).
This ESMAP Mayoral Guidance Note #4 provides an overview for decision makers in developing countries of the Avoid, Shift, Improve approach to sustainable urban transport.
This report analyses the emerging challenges and risks to which urban and rural Africa are being exposed with a view to facilitating discussions at regional, national and local levels on how best to address the challenges ahead and apply solutions that are innovative, location-specific and effective.
The report provides a strategic policy framework anchored in national development planning to enable African countries to harness urbanization for industrialization and also draws on specific country experiences in Africa illustrating the need for much more concerted efforts to address the disconnects between urban and industrial development (United Nations economic commission for Africa, 2017).
he AFRICAPOLIS study provides an important knowledge update on urbanization in West Africa.
This is the 3rd iteration of the City of Cape Town's State of Energy report, providing a thorough and detailed overview of energy consumption across the city.
This document provides a context for the energy and urbanization situation in South Africa, and then draws on a range of literature to look at the status of planning and implementation of sustainable energy options in urban areas (SEA, 2013).
A first-ever model of the urban energy future of urban Sub-Saharan Africa produced by Sustainable Energy Africa through the SAMSET programme.
This paper presents evidence to show that the rate of urbanisation in Africa has stagnated – or even regressed – in many countries (Potts, 2012).
This policy brief is intended to propose recommendations and solutions to local government in sub Saharan Africa with regards to managing municipal waste in a sustainable manner (Lemaire and Kerr, 2016).
The purpose of the synthesis is to enable comparison of key factors between the countries, and to form a foundation for any knowledge sharing activities within the SAMSET project (BATCHELOR, SMITH, BAWAKYILLENUO, AGBELIE, MANN, NAMUKISA AND NDIBWAMI, BORCHERS, EUSTON-BROWN, & NDLOVU, 2014).
This document provides a context for the energy and urbanisation situation in Uganda, and then draws on a range of sources to look at the urban planning framework as such, status of any energy initiatives and any opportunities and challenges to implementation of sustainable energy options in urban areas (Mann, Namukisa and Ndibwami, 2014).
The Joe Slovo informal settlement upgrade in Cape Town was undertaken with innovative planning and sustainable energy approaches (2014)
The aim of this paper was to provide an insight into the productive uses of energy in enterprises in Ghanaian slums.
This paper aims to provide prioritised lists of the most cost- and carbon effective measures that could realistically be promoted in the housing, commercial and public buildings, transport and waste sectors within Kigali (Gouldson, et al.).
This literature review focuses on the energy situation in the urban Ghana, even though an overview of the general case for the whole country will be addressed (Bawakyillenuo and Agbelie, 2014).
This study points to the importance of urban form, densification in particular, as a critical part of an overall approach to sustainability and carbon mitigation in Cape Town (SEA, 2014).