Urban Slums and Circular Economy Synergies in the Global South

Introduction: The embeddedness of circularity in everyday slum living in Global South cities.- Linking informal settler practices and circular principles in Global South: Lessons from Asian and Latin American Cities.- Modern Vernacular Architecture and Circular Economy in Informal Settlements.- Exploring Circular Economy Awareness, Perceptions and Practices in Selected Urban Slums in Kigali City of Rwanda.- Recycling from Construction and Demolition (C&D) Waste: Exploring the Scope of Circular Management in Constructing Slum Dwellings of Dhaka.- Circularities in Housing Transformation Practices: A Synergetic Review.- Circular economy in Africa's informal cities: A review of residents' value retention practices and their implications for participatory urban planning.- Circularizing livelihoods: Transforming agricultural residues to electricity in low-income periurban areas of Uganda.- Metropolitan Cartography: A novel approach for assessing how new morpho-types solutions impact the circular city agenda. The Ouagadougou Case Study.- Closing the policy-implementation gaps in e-waste management: Implications for circular economy and sustainability in urban Ghana.- Towards Just Circular Transitions in the of Slums Global South Cities.

Dr. Seth Asare Okyere is an international development planner whose work thematically cuts across social equity, resilience, and sustainability to cross-pollinate ideas and action for just and sustainable communities in the global south. He has extensive experience across academia, policy agencies, and non-governmental organisations conducting transformative research, leading international expert teams, coordinating international joint projects, and engaging local communities to build capacity for sustainable development. The breadth and depth of experiences span cities and communities in Africa, Europe, Asia, and North America. Seth is in pursuit of the sustainable development of vulnerable communities within mission-focused approaches to co-producing equitable, resilient, and place-based solutions. Seth holds a Ph.D. in Urban Development Planning (Osaka University, Japan) and an MSc in Urban Planning and Policy Design (Polytechnic University of Milan, Italy). He is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor (University of Arizona, USA) and an adjunct Associate Professor (Osaka University, Japan). Dr. Matthew Abunyewah is a research-focused lecturer at the Australasian Centre for Resilience Implementation for Sustainable Communities within the College of Health and Human Sciences, Charles Darwin University. He leverages participatory and interdisciplinary research approaches to inform government policies on disaster management and resilience, circular economy and sustainability, community development, industry and business development, and climate change and variability. Before joining Charles Darwin University, Dr. Abunyewah worked as a community and industry development practitioner researching workforce and training development, public policy development and disaster resilience across Africa and Australia for over eight years. Notable industry research outputs/reports produced by Dr. Abunyewah in collaboration with industry partners and government agencies