05500nam a22006495i 4500 978-981-99-9025-2 DE-He213 20251030112332.0 cr nn 008mamaa 240415s2024 si | s |||| 0|eng d 9789819990252 978-981-99-9025-2 10.1007/978-981-99-9025-2 doi GE196 RNU bicssc SCI026000 bisacsh RNU thema Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South [electronic resource] : Theoretical and Policy Imperatives for Sustainable Communities / edited by Seth Asare Okyere, Matthew Abunyewah, Michael Odei Erdiaw-Kwasie, Festival Godwin Boateng. 1st ed. 2024. Singapore : Springer Nature Singapore : Imprint: Springer, 2024. XXIV, 207 p. 36 illus., 26 illus. in color. online resource. text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, 2198-2554 Introduction: The embeddedness of circularity in everyday slum living in Global South cities -- Linking informal settler practices and circular principles in Global South: Lessons from Asian and Latin American Cities -- Modern Vernacular Architecture and Circular Economy in Informal Settlements -- Exploring Circular Economy Awareness, Perceptions and Practices in Selected Urban Slums in Kigali City of Rwanda -- Recycling from Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste: Exploring the Scope of Circular Management in Constructing Slum Dwellings of Dhaka -- Circularities in Housing Transformation Practices: A Synergetic Review -- Circular economy in Africa’s informal cities: A review of residents' value retention practices and their implications for participatory urban planning -- Circularizing livelihoods: Transforming agricultural residues to electricity in low-income periurban areas of Uganda -- Metropolitan Cartography: A novel approach for assessing how new morpho-types solutions impact the circular city agenda. The Ouagadougou Case Study -- Closing the policy-implementation gaps in e-waste management: Implications for circular economy and sustainability in urban Ghana -- Towards Just Circular Transitions in the of Slums Global South Cities. This book takes a theoretical and empirical distance from urban slums/low-income settlements as a threat to environmental sustainability and recast them as places where environmentally rehabilitative and circular practices occur—drawing on the theoretical lens of the circular economy (CE). CE is defined as regenerative system that minimizes waste, emission, and energy leakage by slowing, closing, and narrowing material and energy loops. In principle, CE departs from the traditional linear model of take-make-use-dispose. As conceived in urban contexts, circular cities offer possibilities to regenerate natural systems, design out waste, and keep products in use. While the CE key principles of reduce, repair, and reuse are essential to the sustainable and inclusive interventions in urban slums, there is lack of case studies exploring the role of place and agency, especially the slum living-CE nexus in global south contexts. In inequitable urban transitions, a nuanced understanding of the synergies between urban slums and the circular economy is not only theoretically relevant for reconceptualizing the slum in urban sustainability discourses but also exert policy and practice ramifications to decidedly figure out how the urban slum phenomenon can foster the sustainable and inclusive development of marginal areas through contextual and people-centered initiatives. Sustainability. 57661 Urban policy. 57466 Urban economics. Architecture. 66049 Refuse and refuse disposal. 65958 Environmental management. 59778 Sustainability. 57661 Urban Policy. 57466 Urban Economics. Cities, Countries, Regions. 66052 Waste Management/Waste Technology. 65960 Environmental Management. 59778 Okyere, Seth Asare. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79331 Abunyewah, Matthew. editor. edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79332 Erdiaw-Kwasie, Michael Odei. editor. (orcid)0000-0003-1775-8013 https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1775-8013 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79333 Boateng, Festival Godwin. editor. (orcid)0000-0001-8498-8498 https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8498-8498 edt http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/edt 79334 SpringerLink (Online service) Springer Nature eBook Printed edition: 9789819990245 Printed edition: 9789819990269 Printed edition: 9789819990276 Advances in 21st Century Human Settlements, 2198-2554 79245 https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-99-9025-2 ZDB-2-EES ZDB-2-SXEE 61024 61024