Les espaces périurbains en Afrique centrale
Authors
Trefon & Kabuyaya,
Discipline
Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries
Subject
Geodynamics and mineral resources
Audience
Scientific
Date
2015Publisher
Presses agronomiques de Gembloux
Metadata
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African urban hinterlands are fascinating spaces of imbalance where ordinary people have imagined new constructions of space and time. Based on interdisciplinary field research in central Africa, this article analyzes how power over nature is structured in peri-urban areas. It defines the concept of peri-urban space and identifies the stakeholders working, living, exploiting and imagining this hybrid form of social space. It addresses the way urban populations have reconfigured the complex relations that link them to their hinterlands. It concludes that demographic pressure will continue in peri-urban areas, that the environment will be increasingly degraded and people living in these areas will find access to land for housing and agriculture more and more challenging.
Citation
Trefon & Kabuyaya, (2015). Les espaces périurbains en Afrique centrale. , Territoires périurbains.Développement, enjeux et perspectives dans les pays du Sud, 33-42, Presses agronomiques de Gembloux,Identifiers
Type
Book chapter
Peer-Review
Yes
Language
fra