Mariken Vaa
Biographic Data
| ID | 241040 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mariken Vaa |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mariken |
| FAMILY NAME | Vaa |
| SIGNATURE | VAA M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Nordic Africa Institute |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 9 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 56 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1990 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2004 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
New Approaches to Urban Governance
The book edited by Patricia McCarney and Richard E. Stren includes two introductory chapters with overviews of recent debates in research on urban governance. The case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America are rich in detail and will be extremely useful to other researchers interested in the particular cities under scrutiny. They also have obvious policy implications, both for the individual cities studied and for how research on urban gove…
Urban Research Agendas, Modes of Financing Research and Considerations of Quality
This article consists of three parts. The first is a brief presentation of the research agendas drawn up by African participants in a project on urban research in the developing world called the Global Urban Research Initiative. The second part is a critical discussion of a dominant mode of donor financing of African urban research—the research consultancy—which often has negative implications both for the building of research capacity and for qu…
Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
Housing policy after political transition: The case of Bamako
This paper describes the new policy on urban development and housing which the Malian government launched after its transition to democracy in 1991 and discusses its effectiveness in reaching low-income groups in Bamako. After outlining Bamako’s growth and housing situation, and the 1991 political transition, the paper describes the new housing policy, formally adopted in 1995. The policy’s stated objective was to improve access to housing for lo…
Housing policy after political transition: The case of Bamako
This paper describes the new policy on urban development and housing which the Malian government launched after its transition to democracy in 1991 and discusses its effectiveness in reaching low-income groups in Bamako. After outlining Bamako’s growth and housing situation, and the 1991 political transition, the paper describes the new housing policy, formally adopted in 1995. The policy’s stated objective was to improve access to housing for lo…
Information: Ritual or Tool? The Production and Use of Information in Development Agencies
Mariken Vaa, ‘Information: Ritual or Tool? The Production and Use of Information in Development Agencies’, Forum for Development Studies, 1995:1, pp. 61–76. The starting point for this article is how aid organisations have handled information relating to one particular field of development assistance: improved water supply and sanitation services. The first part gives an outline of various efforts undertaken during the International Drinking Wate…
Gender and Change in Developing Countries
Community Participation in Urban Development Planning
Mariken Vaa, ‘Community Participation in Urban Development Planning’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 167–175. This article addresses issues related to upgrading of illegally constructed neighbourhoods in towns and cities, or squatter settlements, where donors increasingly advocate that provision and management of basic services should be based on community participation. But the concept of community is vague and denotes some form…
African Cities in Crisis: Managing Rapid Urban Growth
Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
Gender and Change in Developing Countries
Community Participation in Urban Development Planning
Mariken Vaa, ‘Community Participation in Urban Development Planning’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 167–175. This article addresses issues related to upgrading of illegally constructed neighbourhoods in towns and cities, or squatter settlements, where donors increasingly advocate that provision and management of basic services should be based on community participation. But the concept of community is vague and denotes some form…
African Cities in Crisis: Managing Rapid Urban Growth
Community Participation in Urban Development Planning
Mariken Vaa, ‘Community Participation in Urban Development Planning’, Forum for Development Studies, No. 2, 1993, pp. 167–175. This article addresses issues related to upgrading of illegally constructed neighbourhoods in towns and cities, or squatter settlements, where donors increasingly advocate that provision and management of basic services should be based on community participation. But the concept of community is vague and denotes some form…
Gender and Change in Developing Countries
Information: Ritual or Tool? The Production and Use of Information in Development Agencies
Mariken Vaa, ‘Information: Ritual or Tool? The Production and Use of Information in Development Agencies’, Forum for Development Studies, 1995:1, pp. 61–76. The starting point for this article is how aid organisations have handled information relating to one particular field of development assistance: improved water supply and sanitation services. The first part gives an outline of various efforts undertaken during the International Drinking Wate…
Housing policy after political transition: The case of Bamako
This paper describes the new policy on urban development and housing which the Malian government launched after its transition to democracy in 1991 and discusses its effectiveness in reaching low-income groups in Bamako. After outlining Bamako’s growth and housing situation, and the 1991 political transition, the paper describes the new housing policy, formally adopted in 1995. The policy’s stated objective was to improve access to housing for lo…
Housing policy after political transition: The case of Bamako
This paper describes the new policy on urban development and housing which the Malian government launched after its transition to democracy in 1991 and discusses its effectiveness in reaching low-income groups in Bamako. After outlining Bamako’s growth and housing situation, and the 1991 political transition, the paper describes the new housing policy, formally adopted in 1995. The policy’s stated objective was to improve access to housing for lo…
Associational Life in African Cities: Popular Responses to the Urban Crisis
Urban Research Agendas, Modes of Financing Research and Considerations of Quality
This article consists of three parts. The first is a brief presentation of the research agendas drawn up by African participants in a project on urban research in the developing world called the Global Urban Research Initiative. The second part is a critical discussion of a dominant mode of donor financing of African urban research—the research consultancy—which often has negative implications both for the building of research capacity and for qu…
New Approaches to Urban Governance
The book edited by Patricia McCarney and Richard E. Stren includes two introductory chapters with overviews of recent debates in research on urban governance. The case studies from Asia, Africa and Latin America are rich in detail and will be extremely useful to other researchers interested in the particular cities under scrutiny. They also have obvious policy implications, both for the individual cities studied and for how research on urban gove…
Political science (8 works) · Economics (7 works) · Business (5 works) · Geography (5 works) · Development economics (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Urban and Rural Development Challenges (4 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Human settlement (3 works) · Public Administration (3 works)