Mvemba and colleagues place the knowledge of Kinshasa’s inhabitants at the centre of green-space diagnosis. Surveying 240 respondents across Gombe, Kalamu, Matete and N’Djili, the study documents both perceptions and material loss: of 375.65 hectares of planned green space, 195.44 hectares—52.03%—are reported as destroyed or occupied. Its strongest contribution is epistemological. The condition of urban green infrastructure is not approached solely through remote sensing or expert inventory, but through endogenous and exogenous knowledge held by residents. The methodological operation combines questionnaires, interviews and descriptive statistics to make local knowledge quantitatively visible without treating it merely as anecdotal testimony. Its bridge to epistemic justice is direct: urban environmental governance is strengthened when citizens become recognised sources of evidence about destruction, land pressure and the quality of the living environment.
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