Leptospirosis disproportionately affects residents of urban slums. To understand the knowledge, attitudes, and practices regarding leptospirosis, we conducted a cross-sectional study among residents of an urban slum community ...

Improving access to modern fuels is essential in developing countries for reducing adverse human health and environmental impacts caused by traditional fuels. Fuels use in developing countries is heterogeneous across ...

Slum dwellers may decide to live in slums due to location preferences, even though they have access to subsi-dized housing in the city outskirts. We examine this hypothesis by studying the evolution of location choices ...

This chapter discusses the narratives of the future that the young people construct, narratives that constitute a political map that is drawn on the basis of lines of sedimentation that become lines of flight. It describes ...