The peri-urban water poor: citizens or consumers?

The moral responsibility of consumers as citizens

The paper addresses the extent of, and preconditions for, consumers’ moral responsibility for sustainable consumption. Starting from the concept of consumer citizenship it is argued that full citizenship includes both rights and duties. The established set of Kennedy’s consumer rights is used as a basis for deriving corresponding consumer duties, which foster sustainable development. It will be...

Poor nutritional status of schoolchildren in urban and peri-urban areas of Ouagadougou (Burkina Faso)

BACKGROUND Malnutrition is still highly prevalent in developing countries. Schoolchildren may also be at high nutritional risk, not only under-five children. However, their nutritional status is poorly documented, particularly in urban areas. The paucity of information hinders the development of relevant nutrition programs for schoolchildren. The aim of this study carried out in Ouagadougou was...

Achieving Resilience through Water Recycling in Peri-Urban Agriculture

Pressures on urban, peri-urban and rural water and agricultural systems are increasingly complex with multiple interacting stresses and impacts. As a way of addressing these issues there has been increasing consideration as to how to build and manage resilience in these complex social-ecological systems. This paper presents a case study of the role of water recycling for agricultural use within...

Urban and Peri-urban Agriculture

Citizens or consumers?: Environmentalism and the public sphere in postsocialist Hungary.

INTRODUCTION Much of the most vital activism of the post-1989 environmental movement in Hungary addresses the development of consumer culture and the expansion of transnational corporations in East-Central Europe. In actions against McDonald's conquest of the urban landscape and the ubiquitous presence of advertisements for transnational corporations, activists contrast cherished notions of dec...