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What Makes a Compact City? Differences Between Urban Research in the Global North and the Global South
(2020)
Compact cities are promoted in policy as a response to current societal challenges, but it is unclear or ambiguous what qualities or benefits a compact city is supposed to deliver. The concept of the compact city is widely ...
Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), 2020)
This paper examines the multiple strategies articulated by grassroots recycler networks to bring about socio environmental change. The paper shows how these networks are an emblematic case of grassroots governmentality, ...
Bringing the Global To the Local: The Challenges of Multi-Level Governance for Global Policy Implementation in Africa
(International Journal of Urban Sustainable Development, 2021-08-12)
The New Urban Agenda (NUA) and Agenda 2030’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) recognise the key role of ‘sub-national entities’, including cities, in achieving sustainable development. However, since these global policy ...
Briquetting as a Means of Recovering Energy from Organic Market Waste
(Taylor and Francis Group, 2021-05-13)
Municipal Solid Waste is causing pollution and health hazards in cities around the world. In Kenya, existing and emerging cities are experiencing increased populations with increase in organic market waste. Organic market ...