Informal waste networks and formalization policy

PhD dissertation, University of Nairobi, 2025. Advised by Prof. A. Wanjiru. Traces informal waste-picker network adaptation to formalization policy.

PhD dissertation, University of Nairobi, 2025. Advised by Prof. A. Wanjiru.

This dissertation traces how urban informal waste-picker networks adapted their organizational structures in response to municipal formalization policies, drawing on three years of participant observation across two cities.