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Reducing Informal Settlements

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Sustainable Cities and Communities

Part of the book series: Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ((ENUNSDG))

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Definition

Informal settlements are residential areas developed without abiding to specific and relevant formal rules. They are areas where housing development has taken place on land which the occupants have no legal claim to (Collier et al. 2018).

Since informal settlement dwellers suffer more spatial, social, and economic exclusion from the benefits and opportunities of the broader urban environment, reducing informal settlements is considered an appropriate initiative for improving inclusivity and attaining sustainable communities. In this entry, reducing informal settlements implies improving the living condition of such settlements, so that they transform into sustainable communities.

Addressing Informal Settlements for Sustainable Development

Introduction

This entry defines informal settlements, their characteristics and discusses strategies and approaches applied in reducing such settlements. Finally, the entry outlines challenges related to reducing informal settlements and...

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  1. Ardhi University, Institute of Human Settlement Studies, Dar es Salaam, Tanzania

    Yohannes E. Kachenje

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  1. European School of Sustainability Science and Research, Hamburg University of Applied Sciences, Hamburg, Germany

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  2. Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology, Institute for Interdisciplinary Research, University of Coimbra, Coimbra, Portugal

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Kachenje, Y.E. (2020). Reducing Informal Settlements. In: Leal Filho, W., Marisa Azul, A., Brandli, L., Gökçin Özuyar, P., Wall, T. (eds) Sustainable Cities and Communities. Encyclopedia of the UN Sustainable Development Goals. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-95717-3_56

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