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1. Transdisciplinary Research as a Means of Protecting Human Health, Ecosystems and Climate by Engaging People to Act on Air Pollution

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Büker, Patrick, West, Sarah E., Bowyer, Cressida J., Apondo, William, Cinderby, Steve, Gray, Cindy M., Hahn, Matthew, Lambe, Fiona, Loh, Miranda, Medcalf, Alexander, Muhoza, Cassilde, Muindi, Kanyiva, Njoora, Timothy Kamau, Twigg, Marsailidh M., Waelde, Charlotte, Walnycki, Anna, Wainwright, Megan, Wendler, Jana, Wilson, Mike, and Price, Heather D.

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2024
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3. Using a co-created transdisciplinary approach to explore the complexity of air pollution in informal settlements

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West, Sarah E., Bowyer, Cressida J., Apondo, William, Büker, Patrick, Cinderby, Steve, Gray, Cindy M., Hahn, Matthew, Lambe, Fiona, Loh, Miranda, Medcalf, Alexander, Muhoza, Cassilde, Muindi, Kanyiva, Njoora, Timothy Kamau, Twigg, Marsailidh M., Waelde, Charlotte, Walnycki, Anna, Wainwright, Megan, Wendler, Jana, Wilson, Mike, and Price, Heather D.

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2021
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4. Rights on the edge : the right to water and the peri-urban drinking water committees of Cochabamba

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Walnycki, Anna Maria

Subjects
333.91, F3301 Bolivia, HD1635 Utilisation and culture of special classes of lands Including pasture lands, water resources development
Abstract

This thesis examines how constitutional reforms relating to the right to water in Bolivia have affected water provision in peri-urban Cochabamba. This multi-sited ethnography explores how the right to water has framed reforms to the Bolivian water sector, how and why the right to water has been contested in Bolivia, the impact of reforms to the water sector on peri-urban water committees and emerging challenges and opportunities for sustainable water provision in peri-urban Bolivia. It demonstrates that despite the high profile role played by Bolivia in advancing the right to water at the international and national level, in practice the right to water continues to be a fairly nebulous concept. There is a disconnect between Bolivia's international stance on the human right to water and national reforms around the right to water. This thesis contends that the right to water is a banner under which the water sector has been reformed since the election of Evo Morales in 2006. Even though the constitution states that everyone has the right to water, in practice water often continues to be provided through community providers such as drinking water committees (DWCs), largely due to the failure of municipal water provision. Reforms and policy have focussed on (re)nationalising the sector and establishing new institutions to regulate and develop diverse water providers such as peri-urban DWCs. Through detailed ethnographic examination of peri-urban Cochabamba, the thesis demonstrates that activists and community-water providers in rural and peri-urban areas have contested reforms linked to the right to water. They have contended that reforms have the potential to undermine community water systems, and furthermore, that the state has failed to guarantee basic human rights and service provision. To date, the state and non-state initiatives to enhance the sustainability of DWCs have focussed on certain elements of sustainability, specifically protecting the aquifer and enhancing institutional sustainability of DWCs. By drawing on the experience and development of one DWC, this thesis also explores further elements that present challenges and opportunities to enhance sustainable water provision in peri-urban areas, namely building equitable access, and the reconciling of local power relations.

Published
2013

7. Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya

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Meme, Hellen, primary, Amukoye, Evans, additional, Bowyer, Cressida, additional, Chakaya, Jeremiah, additional, Das, Darpan, additional, Dobson, Ruaraidh, additional, Dragosits, Ulrike, additional, Fuld, Jonathan, additional, Gray, Cindy, additional, Hahn, Matthew, additional, Kiplimo, Richard, additional, Lesosky, Maia, additional, Loh, Miranda M, additional, McKendree, Jean, additional, Mortimer, Kevin, additional, Ndombi, Amos, additional, Netter, Louis, additional, Obasi, Angela, additional, Orina, Fred, additional, Pearson, Clare, additional, Price, Heather, additional, Quint, Jennifer K, additional, Semple, Sean, additional, Twigg, Marsailidh, additional, Waelde, Charlotte, additional, Walnycki, Anna, additional, Warwick, Melaneia, additional, Wendler, Jana, additional, West, Sarah E, additional, Wilson, Michael, additional, Zurba, Lindsay, additional, and Devereux, Graham, additional

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2023
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9. Asthma symptoms, spirometry and air pollution exposure in schoolchildren in an informal settlement and an affluent area of Nairobi, Kenya

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Meme, Hellen, Amukoye, Evans, Bowyer, Cressida, Chakaya, Jeremiah, Das, Darpan, Dobson, Ruaraidh, Dragosits, Ulrike, Fuld, Jonathan, Gray, Cindy, Hahn, Matthew, Kiplimo, Richard, Lesosky, Maia, Loh, Miranda M, McKendree, Jean, Mortimer, Kevin, Ndombi, Amos, Netter, Louis, Obasi, Angela, Orina, Fred, Pearson, Clare, Price, Heather, Quint, Jennifer K, Semple, Sean, Twigg, Marsailidh, Waelde, Charlotte, Walnycki, Anna, Warwick, Melaneia, Wendler, Jana, West, Sarah E, Wilson, Michael, Zurba, Lindsay, Devereux, Graham, Amukoye, Evans [0000-0003-0683-0585], Pearson, Clare [0000-0003-3274-1586], Quint, Jennifer K [0000-0003-0149-4869], and Apollo - University of Cambridge Repository

Subjects
asthma epidemiology, asthma, paediatric asthma
Abstract

BACKGROUND: Although 1 billion people live in informal (slum) settlements, the consequences for respiratory health of living in these settlements remain largely unknown. This study investigated whether children living in an informal settlement in Nairobi, Kenya are at increased risk of asthma symptoms. METHODS: Children attending schools in Mukuru (an informal settlement in Nairobi) and a more affluent area (Buruburu) were compared. Questionnaires quantified respiratory symptoms and environmental exposures; spirometry was performed; personal exposure to particulate matter (PM2.5) was estimated. RESULTS: 2373 children participated, 1277 in Mukuru (median age, IQR 11, 9-13 years, 53% girls), and 1096 in Buruburu (10, 8-12 years, 52% girls). Mukuru schoolchildren were from less affluent homes, had greater exposure to pollution sources and PM2.5. When compared with Buruburu schoolchildren, Mukuru schoolchildren had a greater prevalence of symptoms, 'current wheeze' (9.5% vs 6.4%, p=0.007) and 'trouble breathing' (16.3% vs 12.6%, p=0.01), and these symptoms were more severe and problematic. Diagnosed asthma was more common in Buruburu (2.8% vs 1.2%, p=0.004). Spirometry did not differ between Mukuru and Buruburu. Regardless of community, significant adverse associations were observed with self-reported exposure to 'vapours, dusts, gases, fumes', mosquito coil burning, adult smoker(s) in the home, refuse burning near homes and residential proximity to roads. CONCLUSION: Children living in informal settlements are more likely to develop wheezing symptoms consistent with asthma that are more severe but less likely to be diagnosed as asthma. Self-reported but not objectively measured air pollution exposure was associated with increased risk of asthma symptoms.

Published
2023

14. Local response in health emergencies: key considerations for addressing the COVID-19 pandemic in informal urban settlements

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Wilkinson, Annie, primary, Ali, Harris, additional, Bedford, Juliet, additional, Boonyabancha, Somsook, additional, Connolly, Creighton, additional, Conteh, Abu, additional, Dean, Laura, additional, Decorte, Filiep, additional, Dercon, Bruno, additional, Dias, Sonia, additional, Dodman, David, additional, Duijsens, Raimond, additional, D’Urzo, Sandra, additional, Eamer, Gwendolen, additional, Earle, Lucy, additional, Gupte, Jaideep, additional, Frediani, Alex Apsan, additional, Hasan, Arif, additional, Hawkins, Kate, additional, Herbst, Natalia, additional, Kadihasanoglu, Aynur, additional, Keil, Roger, additional, Kibuchi, Eliud, additional, Leach, Melissa, additional, Lilford, Richard, additional, Macarthy, Joseph, additional, Mitlin, Diana, additional, Napier, David, additional, O’Donnell, Ian, additional, Oyebode, Oyinlola, additional, Ozano, Kim, additional, Perera, Laxman, additional, Rashid, Sabina, additional, Ringwald, Beate, additional, Ripoll, Santiago, additional, Saleem, Amjad, additional, Satterthwaite, David, additional, Sellu, Sudie Austina, additional, Siddique, Omar, additional, Soesilo, Cynthia, additional, Sommer, Kerstin, additional, Steege, Rosie, additional, Sverdlik, Alice, additional, Tacoli, Cecilia, additional, Taylor, John, additional, Theobald, Sally, additional, Tolhurst, Rachel, additional, Walnycki, Anna, additional, Watson, Samuel, additional, and Whittaker, Lana, additional

Published
2020
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17. Informality as Experimentation: Water Utilities' Strategies for Cost Recovery and their Consequences for Universal Access.

Author

Mitlin, Diana and Walnycki, Anna

Subjects
*WATER utilities, *DEPRECIATION, *SUSTAINABLE development, *WATER supply, *PUBLIC utilities
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This paper considers the modalities by which utilities in four sub-Saharan African cities have extended water services into low-income settlements and examines their consequences for household access to water. We argue that water utilities and other public agencies supplying water are experimenting, drawing on the approaches of informal suppliers, to find ways to extend their coverage into low-income and/or informal neighbourhoods despite their legal status. While this experimentation appears to be extending access, prices prevent low-income households from being able to purchase sufficient quantities of water from public suppliers. Prices remain high in a context in which cost-recovery is a priority for utilities. Using a critical political economy approach, we argue that water pricing strategies applied in informal settlements present a form of accumulation enacted through the 'market integration' of low-income, primarily informal households that appears to undermine attempts to build the universal access to water services promised by Sustainable Development Goal 6. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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2020
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20. Sharing reflections on inclusive sanitation

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Banana, Evans, primary, Chikoti, Patrick, additional, Harawa, Chisomo, additional, McGranahan, Gordon, additional, Mitlin, Diana, additional, Stephen, Stella, additional, Schermbrucker, Noah, additional, Shumba, Farirai, additional, and Walnycki, Anna, additional

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2015
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21. Water trajectories through non-networked infrastructure: insights from peri-urban Dar es Salaam, Cochabamba and Kolkata.

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Allen, Adriana, Hofmann, Pascale, Mukherjee, Jenia, and Walnycki, Anna

Subjects
WATER supply, CITY dwellers, UNDERPINNING (Foundation engineering), SANITATION
Abstract

For many urbanites, infrastructural uncertainty refers to ‘predictable shocks’ rather than constituting a quotidian experience. By contrast, for the peri-urban poor, the sources of uncertainty underpinning water and sanitation services are endless: uncertainty about cost, about being evicted and indeed about ever becoming connected to networked systems. Drawing on a number of case studies, we argue that across the urban global south, the future is not one of networked systems but rather one of ‘infrastructural archipelagos’ that need to be thoroughly understood in order to bridge the growing gap between everyday and large infrastructural planning practices. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]

Published
2017
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