prof.dr. S. Lwasa PhD (Shuaib)

Full Professor
ITC-SCI-PLAN
s.lwasa@utwente.nl
+31534891927
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Shuaib is  Chair of spatial planning for urban resilience. Shuaib has over 2 decades experience in higher education and research while at Makerere University in Uganda. He is the founding coordinator of the Urban Action Research Lab investigating urban transitions and resilience in global south cities. His research focuses intractable urban development challenges for actionable, scalable, innovative, and equitable solutions related to climate change adaptation and resilience in global south cities. His research on informality in global south has contributed to evidence of co-produced knowledge for urban systems transition and transformation. He has published widely in international journals including Nature, Nature Sustainability, Nature Climate Change, World Development and Global Environmental Change. He was a Coordinating Lead Author of IPCC WGIII AR6 for the Urban Systems chapter, a Lead Author for the IPCC Special report on Land and Climate Change and Lead Author of the IPCC WGII AR5 report on Human settlements and Spatial Planning.

Expertise

  • Earth and Planetary Sciences

    • Metropolitan Area
    • Climate
    • Climate Change
    • Uganda
    • Adaptation
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    • Infrastructure

  • Social Sciences

    • Urban Areas

Organisations

Ancillary activities

  • International Institute of Social SciencesTeaching and Research
  • International Institue of Social SciencesTeaching, research and adminstration
  • Development Reporting IncAdvisory board member
  • SpringerAssociate Editor
  • UNDRRAdvsiory Board member
  • University of ManchesterResearch advisory

Publications

2026

Spatial displacement of grain production drove carbon emissions within the meat supply chain in China (2026)Applied geography, 186. Article 103853. Ke, X., Huang, D., Zuo, C., Zhou, T., Dou, Y. & Lwasa, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apgeog.2025.103853

2024

Innovation in spatial planning for urban transformation and resilience in global South (2024)[Book/Report › Inaugural speech]. University of Twente. Lwasa, S.

2023

Mapping the consumer foodshed of the Kampala city region shows the importance of urban agriculture (2023)npj Urban Sustainability, 3(1). Article 11. Hemerijckx, L. M., Nakyagaba, G. N., Sseviiri, H., Janusz, K., Eichinger, M., Lwasa, S., May, J., Verburg, P. H. & Van Rompaey, A.https://doi.org/10.1038/s42949-023-00093-1Ten new insights in climate science 2023 (2023)Global Sustainability, 7, 1-58. Article e19. Bustamante, M., Roy, J., Ospina, D., Achakulwisut, P., Aggarwal, A., Bastos, A., Broadgate, W., Canadell, J. g., Carr, E. r., Chen, D., Cleugh, H. a., Ebi, K. l., Edwards, C., Farbotko, C., Fernández-Martínez, M., Frölicher, T. l., Fuss, S., Geden, O., Gruber, N., … Raymond, C.https://doi.org/10.1017/sus.2023.25Navigating heterogeneous sanitation configurations: How off-grid technologies work and are reworked by urban residents (2023)Area, 55(3), 364-371. Nakyagaba, G. N., Lawhon, M. & Lwasa, S.https://doi.org/10.1111/area.12861

2022

Unlocking the potential for transformative climate adaptation in cities (2022)In The Sustainable Urban Development Reader (pp. 86-90). Taylor & Francis. Chu, E., Brown, A., Michael, K., Du, J., Lwasa, S. & Mahendra, A.https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003288718-20African perspectives on climate change research (2022)Nature climate change, 12(12), 1078-1084. Al-Zu’bi, M., Dejene, S. W., Hounkpè, J., Kupika, O. L., Lwasa, S., Mbenge, M., Mwongera, C., Ouedraogo, N. S. & Touré, N. D. E.https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-022-01519-xAchieving global biodiversity goals by 2050 requires urgent and integrated actions (2022)One earth, 5(6), 597-603. Leadley, P., Gonzalez, A., Obura, D., Krug, C. B., Londoño-Murcia, M. C., Millette, K. L., Radulovici, A., Rankovic, A., Shannon, L. J., Archer, E., Armah, F. A., Bax, N., Chaudhari, K., Costello, M. J., Dávalos, L. M., Roque, F. d. O., DeClerck, F., Dee, L. E., Essl, F., … Woodley, S.https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2022.05.009Food accessibility of different socioeconomic groups in sub-Saharan African cities: a mixed-method analysis in Kampala, Uganda (2022)Food security, 14(3), 677-694. Hemerijckx, L. M., Janusz, K., Van Emelen, S., Tumwesigye, S., Davis, J., Lwasa, S. & Van Rompaey, A.https://doi.org/10.1007/s12571-021-01248-7Antenatal care research in East Africa during the Millennium Development Goals Initiative: A scoping review (2022)Maternal and child health journal, 26(3), 469-480. Steele, V., Patterson, K., Berrang-Ford, L., King, N., Kulkarni, M., Lwasa, S., Namanya, D. B. & Harper, S. L.https://doi.org/10.1007/s10995-021-03355-5

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