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Organising Grassroots Initiatives for a More Inclusive Governance: Constructing the City from Below.
(Swedish International Centre for Local Democracy, 2019)
Bridging Weak Links of Solid Waste Management in Informal Settlements
(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 ...
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 ...
Urban Qualities and Residents’ Strategies in Compact Global South Cities: The Case of Havana
(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 ...
Multi-Criteria Analysis of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Technologies to Support Decision-Making in Kisumu, Kenya
(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 ...
Residents' Collective Strategies of Resistance in Global South Cities' Informal Settlements: Space, Scale and Knowledge
(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
(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, ...