Print Email Facebook Twitter Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda) Title Pluralizing the urban waste economy: insights from community-based enterprises in Ahmedabad (India) and Kampala (Uganda) Author Oates, L.E. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) Kasaija, Peter (Makerere University) Sseviiri, Hakimu (Makerere University) Sudmant, Andrew (University of Leeds) Ersoy, A. (TU Delft Urban Development Management) van Bueren, Ellen (TU Delft Management in the Built Environment) Department Management in the Built Environment Date 2023 Abstract The delivery of urban basic infrastructure services is often guided by the modern infrastructure ideal, which aims for technical innovation, economic efficiency and uniformity through long-term, centralized management approaches. In rapidly growing urban centres of the global South, however, heterogeneous infrastructure configurations have long involved multiple systems in varying degrees of coexistence. This paper explores how community-based enterprises – organizations that aim not to turn a profit but rather to generate human well-being – contribute to, complement or conflict with wider municipal solid waste management strategies. It does so through two case studies, focused on Luchacos, a local enterprise turning waste into briquettes in an informal settlement of Kampala, Uganda; and the Self Employed Women’s Association (SEWA), a cooperative of waste pickers in Ahmedabad, India. Drawing on empirical data and policy analysis, the research finds that, given the necessary state support, community-based enterprises can contribute to a range of sustainability and development objectives. Subject community-based enterprisesIndiamunicipal solid waste management (MSWM)Ugandaurban service delivery To reference this document use: http://resolver.tudelft.nl/uuid:f9187a19-436e-40a8-bceb-3222b8aa30b9 DOI https://doi.org/10.1177/09562478231190475 ISSN 0956-2478 Source Environment & Urbanization, 35 (2), 411-432 Part of collection Institutional Repository Document type journal article Rights © 2023 L.E. Oates, Peter Kasaija, Hakimu Sseviiri, Andrew Sudmant, A. Ersoy, Ellen van Bueren Files PDF oates_et_al_2023_pluraliz ... ia_and.pdf 494.9 KB Close viewer /islandora/object/uuid:f9187a19-436e-40a8-bceb-3222b8aa30b9/datastream/OBJ/view