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Engaging with and measuring informality in the proposed urban sustainable development goal
(Journal African Geographical Review, 2016-03-16)
A unique project by Mistra Urban Futures to test the draft targets and indicators of the proposed Urban Sustainable Development Goal (Goal 11) in five diverse cities in Europe, Africa, and Asia revealed numerous complexities ...
Bridging weak links of solid waste management in informal settlements
(Sage, 2016-10-05)
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 ...
Socio-environmental entrepreneurship and the provision of critical services in informal settlements
(International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED)., 2016-05)
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 ...
Seawater Intrusion Vulnerability Assessment of a Coastal Aquifer: North Coast Of Mombasa, Kenya as a Case Study
(International Journal of Engineering Research and Application, 2016-08)
Groundwater pollution in the north coast of Mombasa is not only from surface sources but also from the
intrusion of seawater via the Indian Ocean and creeks. This study assessed the vulnerability of the coastal aquifer
to ...
From community-based organization to socio-environmental entrepreneur. The case of household waste collection in Kisumu’s informal settlements
(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 ...