SLU engages in many research collaborations with a focus on low and middle-income countries, ranging from research capacity building programmes, development programmes, and academic networks. A number of these projects are thematically connected to urban research and urban sustainability.
This page lists research projects connected to the theme of urban sustainability with a focus on low and middle-income countries. These projects are from a diversity of different departments, and even include projects done in collaboration with external research partners in the global south. The list provided is not an exhaustive list of all projects done at SLU and only gathers projects already available on SLU webpages or communicated via SLU channels.
Peepoo - a poor - inclusive leapfrog sanitation solution?
SPANS - Sanitation Planning for Alternative Nutrient-recovery Systems
Assessing sustainability of sanitation options – Case study in Kumasi, Ghana
What’s to eat? Women, children and the urban food environment: the case of Addis Ababa
Critical waterscapes – developing design methodology for urban water landscapes
Urban Green Infrastructure in Ethiopia
Entrepreneurial UPA in Dar-es-Salaam, Tanzania, from a gender and generational perspective
Multi-cultural aspects of active aging: A cooperative study between Sweden and India
Habitat and Environment – a research capacity programme in Bolivia
SLU Global is a unit at the Vice-Chancellor's Office that supports and facilitates the university's efforts to collaborate with low-income countries and regions, based on the Global Goals of the Agenda 2030 for Sustainable Development.
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Andrew Gallagher, Project Coordinator for SLU Urban Futures
Hub coordinator, Ultuna
The Unit for Collaboration and Development
andrew.gallagher@slu.se
+46(0)730 55 80 27