Essays about: "Informal Settlements uganda"

Found 3 essays containing the words Informal Settlements uganda.

  1. 1. Evaluation of the levels of selected trace metal pollutants in groundwater and soil from protected springs in peri-urban Kampala, Uganda.

    University essay from KTH/Mark- och vattenteknik

    Author : Shler Moulodi; Jessica Thorsell; [2013]
    Keywords : Kampala; protected springs; trace metal contamination; informal settlements; groundwater;

    Abstract : The current urban infrastructure and demographic development of Uganda and in particular of Kampala city is rapid and does not correspond to the planned socio-economic and industrial infrastructure. This project was justified by the existence of numerous peri-urban areas with unplanned and no monitored san-itary as well as water supply systems. READ MORE

  3. 2. Planning and the Subordinated Reality - A Study of the Relationship between Planning and the Civil Society in Kampala, Uganda

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Mikael Larsson; [2012]
    Keywords : Slum Upgrading; Conflicting rationalities; Formality vs. Informality; Planning; Neoliberalism; Uganda; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This is a qualitative study carried out on basis of documentary studies and interviews in Kampala, Uganda. It is the result of a fieldwork issued in the mentioned location between the 2th of April and 31st of May, 2012. READ MORE

  4. 3. Vulnerabilities and Urban Flooding in Bwaise Parish III, Kampala, Uganda

    University essay from Institutionen för livsvetenskaper

    Author : Solange Berleen Musoke; [2012]
    Keywords : small-scale disasters; localized flooding; urban informal settlements; småskaliga katastrofer; lokala översvämningar; informella bosättningar;

    Abstract : This minor field study has explored what factors cause vulnerability to community members living in informal settlements exposed to localized urban flooding. Particularly, the effects of flooding that women living in Bwaise Parish III, Kampala, Uganda have to encounter were studied. READ MORE