Massive slums have become major features of cities in many low-income and middle-
income countries. Here, in the first in a Series of two papers, we discuss why slums are …

There is a well‐established connection among water quality, sanitation, and physical health.
The potentially important relationship between water and mental health is considerably less …

The informal settlements of the Global South are the least prepared for the pandemic of
COVID-19 since basic needs such as water, toilets, sewers, drainage, waste collection, and …

In the first paper in this Series we assessed theoretical and empirical evidence and
concluded that the health of people living in slums is a function not only of poverty but of …

One in seven of the world's population live in poverty in urban areas, and the vast majority of
these live in the Global South–mostly in overcrowded informal settlements with inadequate …

This study examined drivers and barriers of water, sanitation, and hygiene (WASH) policies
in urban informal settlements in low and middle-income countries. We conducted a search of …

Informal settlements are the most common form of urbanization on the planet, accounting for
one-third of the total urban form. It is expected that by the mid twenty-first century, up to three …

The COVID-19 pandemic has uncovered and intensified existing societal inequalities.
People on the move and residents of urban slums and informal settlements are among some …

Informal settlements in cities of the global South are generally identified by a dense, small-
grain and irregular urban morphology. Such neighbourhoods are rarely entered by those …

Abstract In India,“non-notified” slums are not officially recognized by city governments; they
suffer from insecure tenure and poorer access to basic services than “notified”(government …