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Population, développement urbain et environnement en Uganda : le cas de le ville des Kampala et ses environs
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La croissance et le développement de la ville de Kampala se sont effectués au détriment des espaces ruraux périphériques en intégrant les villes satellites. Cependant, cette expansion qui est liée au manque d’infrastructures et de services sociaux pose de nombreux problèmes d’aménagement et d’environnement. La question est de savoir comment les autorités municipales, gouvernementales et publiques, sont capables d’aborder ces problèmes à travers des politiques volontaristes et des efforts concertés. Le projet de recherche traite des interactions PDE à Kampala et dans ses environs avec pour objectif de définir des politiques visant à générer un développement et une urbanisation durable de cette région métropolitaine. Les résultats révèlent que la combinaison d’une croissance rapide de la population, d’un secteur informel désorganisé et d’un développement non planifié participent à la dégradation de l’environnement.Fiche signalétique
Country : Uganda
Language : English
Team leader : J B Nyakaana, Geography Department, Makerere University, P O Box 7062, Kampala, Uganda, Tel : +256-41-531261/+256-77-489513 E-mail : dr_nyakaana@arts.mak.ac.ug
Team members :
Other collaborating institutions :
Support mission :
Bernard Calas : 8-13 November 2005 ;
Alex de Sherbinin : June 2004
Total budget : 41000 €
Project status : completed and (...)
Problem, objectives, contexts and challenges
The general objective of the study was to analyze the relationships between population, urban development and environment to formulate pro-active policy recommendations for sustainable urbanization. Kampala city in Uganda has experienced rapid population growth having increased from a total of 774,241 in 1991 to 1.2 million in 2002 and at annual growth rate of 5.61%. The growth is largely influenced by rural-urban migration. Population increase in Kampala metropolitan area is responsible (...)
Methodology
The city of Kampala was selected for this research because of its strategic and functional roles being a commercial, industrial, administrative, social, economic and cultural hub of Uganda. The study combined several research methods but largely depended on secondary data from various reports, and policy documents dotted around in different agencies, which have tried to address the environment and development issues of the city.
The study largely employed secondary data sources for (...)
Findings
Kampala is the only urban district in Uganda. It is built on a series of hills with relatively steep slopes separated by wide valleys. The physical expansion of Kampala has been “guided” by different physical planning schemes (in 1912, 1919, 1930, 1972 and 1994) but however housing has continued to be haphazard, unplanned and located outside planned areas and Kampala is at times referred to as “the rich man’s slum ». The population of Kampala like that of other urban centers in the country has (...)
Conclusions and policy implications
The physical environment is a significant factor on the well being of people as it determines the quality and quantity of resources to be harnessed for national socio-economic development. However sustainable development depends on planned use of the resources. This is true for both rural and urban areas. As a primate city, Kampala is faced with rapid population growth, which is unevenly distributed among the administrative divisions. The population surpasses the available infrastructure (...)