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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, ...
Performance of selected organic wastes for available technologies for biogas, Kisumu City, Kenya
(International Journal of Renewable Energy Technology, 2021-04-22)
Inadequate solid wastes disposal exists in Kenya, for unsightliness and health problems. This study determined that available digesters performance differed for size and bio-material. Larger fixed dome, flexible tubing and ...
Organising Grassroots Infrastructure: The (In)Visible Work of Organizational (In)Completeness
(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 ...
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 ...