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Mohamed Tawfik, Jaime Hoogesteger, Moustafa Moussa and Petra Hellegers
Egypt?s quota of Nile River water has been constant since the 1950s, despite the continual agricultural land expansion. To facilitate land reclamation, Egypt has reallocated Nile water from downstream users, mostly smallholders in the ?old lands? of the ...
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Jean-Claude Baraka Munyaka, Jérôme Chenal, Alexis Gatoni Sebarenzi, Rim Mrani and Akuto Akpedze Konou
Rural mobility in Africa is an under-researched issue. Rural communities have often suffered from reduced mobility that has hampered their access to essential services and facilities such as education, health care, food, and clean water. In many rural co...
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Jason Corburn, Patrick Njoroge, Jane Weru and Maureen Musya
Urban informal settlements or slums are among the most vulnerable places to climate-change-related health risks. Yet, little data exist documenting environmental and human health vulnerabilities in slums or how to move research to action. Citizen science...
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Marieke J. Oskam, Milena Pavlova, Charles Hongoro and Wim Groot
While evidence from several developing countries suggests the existence of socio-economic inequalities in the access to safe drinking water, a limited number of studies have been conducted on this topic in informal settlements. This study assessed socio-...
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Johan Mottelson and Alessandro Venerandi
Few studies have investigated the urban morphology of informal settlements at fine-grain level, limiting effective urban planning and policies targeting such areas. This study presents a high-resolution morphological analysis of five informal settlements...
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Fabio Cian, José Manuel Delgado Blasco and Lorenzo Carrera
The sub-Saharan African coast is experiencing fast-growing urbanization, particularly around major cities. This threatens the equilibrium of the socio-ecosystems where they are located and on which they depend: underground water resources are exploited w...
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Rafael Robina Ramírez and Luis A. Sañudo-Fontaneda
Since 1996, the South African government has undertaken a considerable project to fulfil the proclaimed right of citizens to access sufficient water and sanitation (Government of South Africa, 1996) through traditional water management and water governan...
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