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1. Governing from Above : Solid Waste Management in Nigeria's New Capital City of Abuja
Sammanfattning : This doctoral dissertation examines how the symbolic character of a relocated capital city influences and intersects with local conditions to shape the governance structure and relations in service delivery. The focus is on Abuja, the new capital city of Nigeria, and the sector studied is solid waste management. LÄS MER
2. Becoming Jinja : The Production of Space and Making of Place in an African Industrial Town
Sammanfattning : The years immediately preceding and following W.W.II marked a turning point in British colonial policy in Africa. In this doctoral thesis, which focuses on colonial and post-colonial Uganda, this turning point is approached in terms of a shift in would-be hegemonic socio-spatial diagrams of power. LÄS MER
3. Influence and Invisibility : Tenants in Housing Provision in Mwanza City, Tanzania
Sammanfattning : A high proportion of urban residents in Tanzanian cities are tenants who rent rooms in privately owned houses in unplanned settlements. However, in housing policy and in urban planning rental tenure gets very little attention. This study focuses on the reasons for and consequences of this discrepancy between policy and practice. LÄS MER
4. Mellan det lokala och det globala : klimat, kommuner, nätverk
Sammanfattning : Between the local and the global: climate, local governments, networks The notion of an ongoing global warming is shared by a large number of researchers and decision-makers around the world. Through the act of signing the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change a majority of the world's naitons have accepted the idea of human induced climate change, and to develop national climate change mitigation programmes. LÄS MER
5. From Public Pipes to Private Hands : Water Access and Distribution in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania
Sammanfattning : In cities around the world, public water systems have increasingly come to be operated by private companies. Along with an internationally funded investment program to refurbish the dilapidated water infrastructure, private operations were tested also in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania. LÄS MER