For the next decade, the global water crisis remains the risk of highest concern, and ranks
ahead of climate change, extreme weather events, food crises and social instability. Across …

The term peri‐urbanization has been widely used to describe a range of different processes
that transform rural areas to a mix of rural and urban spaces. Although there is a burgeoning …

Executive summary The Healthy Cities movement has been in process for almost 30 years,
and the features needed to transform a city into a healthy one are becoming increasingly …

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and
women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South …

Peri-urban landscapes (PULs) are specific transitional forms of urban landscapes
undergoing dynamic land-use changes. PULs' transformations are driven by close and …

Using the results of a comparative three-year research project in five metropolitan areas, this
article reviews a range of practices in accessing water and sanitation by peri-urban poor …

Along with climate change, population growth, and overexploitation of natural resources,
urbanisation is among the major global challenges of our time. It is a nexus where many of …

This chapter examines why it is necessary and relevant to overcome the rural–urban divide
in order to obtain a better grasp of the water and sanitation (WATSAN) needs of the peri …

In Eastern Dhaka, perennial flood remains a constant threat to people and livelihoods.
Learning from the micro-level experiences of the poor in the peri-urban areas of Dhaka …

For many urbanites, infrastructural uncertainty refers to 'predictable shocks' rather than
constituting a quotidian experience. By contrast, for the peri-urban poor, the sources of …