Opportunities and limits to market-driven sanitation services: evidence from urban informal settlements in East Africa

Environment and Urbanization

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 421-440

  O’Keefe, Mark ^a   Lüthi, Christoph ^b   Tumwebaze, Innocent Kamara ^b   Tobias, Robert ^b  

^a department of Water and Sanitation in Developing Countries ^*  (Switzerland)

^b SWISS FEDERAL INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

bottom of the pyramid; East Africa; informal settlements; sanitation; social enterprise

Indexed keywords

INFORMAL SETTLEMENT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; SANITATION; SERVICE PROVISION; TRANSACTION COST; URBAN AREA; WASTE FACILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

KAMPALA; KENYA; NAIROBI [KENYA]; NAIROBI [NAIROBI (CNT)]; UGANDA;

EID: 84927771817     PISSN: 09562478     EISSN: 17460301     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0956247815581758     Document Type: Article

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