Browsing School of Engineering and Technology by Author "Oloko, Michael"
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Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project
Valencia, Sandra C.; Simona, David; Croese, Sylvia; Nordqvist, Joakim; Oloko, Michael; Sharma, Tarun; Buck, Nick Taylor; Versace, Ileana (Taylor & Francis, 2019-03-08)The Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda recognise the role of cities in achieving sustainable development. However, these agendas were agreed and signed by national governments and thus implementing them ... -
Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements
Gutberlet, Jutta; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Nyakinya, Belinda; Oloko, Michael; Zapata, Patrik; Campos, Marı ´a Jose ´ Zapata (Journal of Environment & Development, 2017)Many cities in the global South suffer from vast inadequacies and deficiencies in their solid waste management. In the city of Kisumu in Kenya, waste management is fragmented and insufficient with most household waste ... -
Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements
Gutberlet, Jutta; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Nyakinya, Belinda; Oloko, Michael; Zapata, Patrik; Campos, Marı ́a Jose ́Zapata (SAGE, 2017)Many cities in the global South suffer from vast inadequacies and deficiencies in their solid waste management. In the city of Kisumu in Kenya, waste management is frag-mented and insufficient with most household waste ... -
Bringing the Global To the Local: The Challenges of Multi-Level Governance for Global Policy Implementation in Africa
Croese, Sylvia; Oloko, Michael; Simon, David; Valencia, Sandra C (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
Ngusale, George K.; Oloko, Michael; Awuor, Frankline Otiende (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 ... -
Co-production of Waste Management Services in Informal Settlements. Swedish Research Center for Local Democracy
Kain, JH; Oloko, Michael; Zapata, P.; Zapata, M. J. (ICLD: Malmö, 2017) -
Food Systems Sustainability: An Examination of Different Viewpoints on Food System Change
Haysom, Gareth; Olsson, E. Gunilla Almered; Dymitrow, Mirek; Opiyo, Paul; Buck, Nick Taylor; Oloko, Michael; Spring, Charlotte; Fermskog, Kristina; Ingelhag, Karin; Kotze, Shelley; Agong, Stephen Gaya Stephen Gaya (MDPI, 2019-06-07)Global food insecurity levels remain stubbornly high. One of the surest ways to grasp the scale and consequence of global inequality is through a food systems lens. In a predominantly urban world, urban food systems present ... -
From community-based organization to socio-environmental entrepreneur. The case of household waste collection in Kisumu’s informal settlements
Gutberlet, Jutta; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Nyakinya, Belinda; Ochieng, Dickens H; Odhiambo, Nicholas; Oloko, Michael; Omolo, John; Omondi, Elvis; Otieno, Silas; Zapata, Patrik; Campos, María José Zapata (2016-04-01)This paper contributes to the understanding of processes by which small-scale entrepreneurs who provide household waste collection in informal settlements succeed in formalized co-production of such services. The paper ... -
Inclusive recycling movements: a green deep democracy from below
Campos, María José Zapata; Carenzo, Sebastián; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Oloko, Michael; Reynosa, Jessica Pérez; Zapata, Patrik (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, ... -
Multi-Criteria Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Technologies to Support Decision-Making in Kisumu, Kenya
Mascarenhas, Luciana Capuano; Ness, Barry; Oloko, Michael; Awuor, Frankline Otiende (Elsevier, 2021-06-20)The directive to close the dumpsite in Kisumu, Kenya has made the search for alternative solid waste treatment and disposal technologies urgent. The aim of this research is to support the decision-making process by analyzing ... -
Organising Grassroots Infrastructure: The (In)Visible Work of Organizational (In)Completeness
Campos, María José Zapata; Barinaga, Ester; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Oloko, Michael; Zapata, Patrik (Urban Studies, 2022-02-01)In this article we build on the concept of incompleteness, as recently developed in both organisational and urban studies, to improve our understanding of the collective actions of grassroots organisations in creating and ... -
Organising Grassroots Initiatives for a More Inclusive Governance: Constructing the City from Below.
Campos, María José Zapata; Barinaga, Ester; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Oloko, Michael; Zapata, Patrik (Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, 2019) -
Residents' Collective Strategies of Resistance in Global South Cities' Informal Settlements: Space, Scale and Knowledge
Campos, María Jos´e Zapata; Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Oloko, Michael; Scheinsohn, Mariano; Stenberg, Jenny; Zapata, Patrik (Cities- International Journal of Urban Policy and Planning, 2022-03-24)This paper examines the strategies of resistance articulated by residents of informal settlements response to urban exclusion. Building upon resistance and urban social movements literature the paper is informed by the ... -
Urban Climate Resilience and Its Link to Global Sustainability Agendas
Valencia, Sandra C.; Simon, David; Croese, Sylvia; Davison, Amy; Diprose, Kristina; Srinivas, Aishwarya Krishnaswami; Nesprias, Julia; Nordqvist, Joakim; Oloko, Michael; Sharma, Tarun; Buck, Nick Taylor; Versace, Ileana (Academia, 2021)This chapter examines urban climate resilience. It provides a conceptual introduction, followed by an explanation of how urban areas have been recognized in recent global agendas related to sustainability, climate change, ... -
Urban Qualities and Residents’ Strategies in Compact Global South Cities: The Case of Havana
Zapata, María José; Kain, Campos Jaan Henrik; Oloko, Michael; Stenberg, Jenny; Zapata, Patrik (Journal of Housing and the Built Environment, 2021-04-20)Research and policy argue for more compact cities to respond to sustainable development challenges. However, what actually needs to be made more compact and how, is under examined, particularly in global South cities where ... -
What Makes a Compact City? Differences Between Urban Research in the Global North and the Global South
Kain, Jaan-Henrik; Stenberg, Jenny; Adelfio, Marco; Oloko, Michael; Thuvander, Liane; Zapata, Patrik; Campos, María José Zapata (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 ...