REINTEGRATING HUMAN & NATURAL SYSTEMS AT LAC MBEUBEUSS
Dakar Region, Senegal
Academic
Fall 2024At a height of 20-22 m and covering 150 hectares, the Mbeubeuss landfill serves the entire Dakar region and is the largest dumpsite in West Africa. The community in and around Mbeubeuss is simultaneously exposed to harmful conditions and derives essential economic benefit from the landfill. To improve living and environmental conditions while sustaining livelihoods, it is necessary to reintegrate human and natural systems. The region is also experiencing rapid, unplanned urban development, pluvial flooding and an unreliable clean water supply.
To that end, this project porposed a strategy to (1) support a just transition for the regional waste management system, (2) addressing flooding and surface water and groundwater contamination by creating space to hold and filter water and (3) stitching community together through housing, workforce, and public space interventions.
with Briana Belo & Claudia Schreier
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