{"id":2524,"date":"2016-04-08T15:45:31","date_gmt":"2016-04-08T15:45:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/?p=2524"},"modified":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","modified_gmt":"2024-11-26T17:49:57","slug":"urban-africa-risk-website","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/2016\/04\/08\/urban-africa-risk-website\/","title":{"rendered":"Urban Africa RISK website"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The <\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanark.org\/\">Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) website<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\"> has been launched to provide information and community resources for a three-year programme, funded\u00a0by the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.gov.uk\/government\/organisations\/department-for-international-development\">UK Department for International Development<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">\u00a0and the\u00a0<\/span><a href=\"http:\/\/www.esrc.ac.uk\/\">Economic and Social Research Council<\/a><span style=\"color: #000000\">, looking at urbanisation and disaster risk reduction\u00a0in African cities.\u00a0 It has case studies on resilience management. <\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">The project is focusing\u00a0in<\/span><\/span> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanark.org\/city-cases\"><span style=\"color: #0000ff;font-family: Calibri\">depth on four cities<\/span><\/a><span style=\"color: #000000;font-family: Calibri\">:\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: 'Times New Roman','serif';font-size: 12pt\"><span style=\"color: #000000\">Ibadan in Nigeria,\u00a0Karonga in Malawi, Nairobi in Kenya and Niamey in Niger. The site also has a community of practice section.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Urban Africa Risk Knowledge (Urban ARK) website has been launched to provide information and community resources for a three-year programme, funded\u00a0by the\u00a0UK Department for International Development\u00a0and the\u00a0Economic and Social Research Council, looking at urbanisation and disaster risk reduction\u00a0in African cities.\u00a0 It has case studies on resilience management. The project is focusing\u00a0in depth on four [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":89,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,10,4,14],"tags":[304,305],"class_list":["post-2524","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-criminology","category-management","category-disaster-and-emergency","category-security-and-risk","tag-disaster-management","tag-risk-management"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/89"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2524"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2525,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2524\/revisions\/2525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/staffblogs.le.ac.uk\/socscilibrarians\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}