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MSWM problem goes beyond technological, formal-institutional, managerial and financial issues. MSWM system, are rarely seen within a broader political context or as embedded in informal (everyday) governance structures. The project attempts to fill this gap and focuses on sociocultural and political processes at various scales that determine the development of socially acceptable and political feasible MSWM systems. The project specifically focusses on the post-crisis governance SWM initiatives. that emerged spontaneously and endogenously in response to natural and human-induced crises, such as natural disasters, garbage strikes, etc. The analysis of such post-crisis (governmental, civil society or private) initiatives may therefore hold lessons on how to develop socially acceptable and politically feasible MSWM systems