Unprecedented droughts are expected to exacerbate urban inequalities in Southern Africa

M Rusca, E Savelli, G Di Baldassarre, A Biza… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change-related drought risks are intensifying in many urban areas, making stakes
particularly high in contexts of severe vulnerability. Yet, how social power, differential …

Impact of El Niño on public health and its preparedness measures

MKK Rony, M Wahiduzzaman, MM Rahman… - Bulletin of the National …, 2024 - Springer
Abstract Background El Niño events disrupt atmospheric and oceanic interactions, leading
to shifts in precipitation, temperature, and extreme weather events. Such alterations have the …

[HTML][HTML] Towards a future-oriented political ecology of climate change

M Rusca - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
Unprecedented climate extremes will likely become a new 'normal'. Urban political ecology
is thus confronted with the challenge of exploring and theorising emerging geographies of …

Seasonal fluctuation of water quality and ecogenomic phylogeny of novel potential microbial pollution indicators of Veshaw River Kashmir-Western Himalaya

RA Rather, S Ara, SA Padder, S Sharma… - Environmental …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nearly a billion people, especially in underdeveloped nations, need safe drinking water.
Indian studies suggest that most drinking water sources have high coliform levels, and …

Assessment of Microbial Contamination in the Infulene River Basin, Mozambique

C Nhantumbo, N Cangi Vaz, M Rodrigues, C Manuel… - Water, 2023 - mdpi.com
Water microbial contamination is one of the major threats to human health. The study focus
is on Infulene River Basin, a urban catchment with mainly informal settlements, with limited …

Mapping the landscape of water and society research: Promising combinations of compatible and complementary disciplines

MF Muller, M Rusca, L Bertassello… - Wiley …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Coupled human‐water systems (CHWS) are diverse and have been studied across a wide
variety of disciplines. Integrating multiple disciplinary perspectives on CHWS provides a …

[HTML][HTML] Philantrocapitalism and the re-making of global water charity

F Menga, M Rusca, R Alba - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
In recent years, philantrocapitalism has surfaced as one of the liveliest expressions of
neoliberalism. The current global concern and anxiety over an unfolding socioecological …

All dried up: The materiality of drought in Ladismith, South Africa

E Savelli, M Rusca, H Cloke, TJ Flügel… - … and Planning E …, 2022 - journals.sagepub.com
This paper conceptualises droughts as socioecological phenomena coproduced by the
recursive engagement of human and non-human transformations. Through an …

The everyday experiences of too little, too much water: the construction and contestations of variegated urban citizenship

MT Tafti, N Pourmohsen - Geoforum, 2023 - Elsevier
This paper adopts the Southern understandings of citizenship in examining the interplays
between risk in its different forms and the construction, experiences, and claims of urban …

[HTML][HTML] Waste accumulation in Jakarta's slums: Neoliberal flows of waste distribution

J Yang - Geoforum, 2024 - Elsevier
Urban slums in the Global South have a formidable challenge of mismanaged waste.
Behind this challenge lies urban politics, creating disproportionate exposure to waste in …