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Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements
(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 ...
Flow of materials in a market system: food security and environmental sustainability perspective
(Research Gate, 2018-01)
Worldwide, there is a challenge of feeding growing population calling for discussions on flow of food materials in a market system. In Kenya, this discussion has been lacking that could aid in identification of opportunities ...
Situation Based Solid Wastes Source Characterization: The Kibuye Market and Other Peri-urban Ward Units -Kisumu City (Kenya)
(International Journal of Emerging Technology and Advanced Engineering, 2020-01)
Solid Wastes managemeorigionant (SWs) characterization and 3Rs benefit is lacking and an integral problem of Kisumu city today, at best a scavenging level effort that needs a shift. The study characterized and quantified ...
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, ...
Adapting the Sustainable Development Goals and the New Urban Agenda to the city level: Initial reflections from a comparative research project
(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 ...
Food Systems Sustainability: An Examination of Different Viewpoints on Food System Change
(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 ...
Assessment of pollution in Ndarugu river due to runoff and agro-industrial wastewater disposal
(Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology, 2014)
River Ndarugu is a tributary of Athi River in Kenya and is one of the main sources of fresh water for domestic use to the villages along the river bank and Nairobi City. It traverses Juja Township in Kiambu County, Central ...
The effect of surface albedo and grain size distribution on eveporation losses in sand dams
(Journal of Agriculture, Science and Technology, 2011)
Sand dams are very useful in arid and semi arid lands (ASALs) as facilities for water storage and conservation. Soils in ASALs are mainly sandy and major water loss is by evaporation and infiltration. This study investigated ...