Social participation in city governance and urban livelihoods: Constraints to the informal recycling economy in Aba, Nigeria

Nzeadibe, Thaddeus Chidi; Anyadike, Raymond N. C.

doi:10.1016/j.ccs.2012.10.001

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“…The waste separation behaviour is significantly influenced by perceived behavioural control, past behaviour and intention, among which an individual's past behaviour is the strongest predictor for waste separation behaviour. In the future, policy makers should focus on residents' habit forming by providing convenient ways to separate waste and undertake intensive information campaign Examples of these policies are: installing adequate separation bins, developing mass mobilisation and community education, encouraging recycling companies, informal recycling system consisting of waste pickers, itinerant buyers, traders in waste materials and non-registered small-scale enterprises, which are suggested to largely influence the efficiency of household waste management in developing countries [8,10,[65][66][67][68][69]. Other sectors should participate in the urban household waste management.…”

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Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

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Due to the increasing waste generation over the years in China, there is an urgent need to addressing this major problem by implementing effective household waste separation programs. Although past studies have tried to explain the waste behaviour from social and psychological motivations, there is little understanding as to the impact of individual moral obligation and past experience on forming waste separating intention. The aim of this study is to investigate key determinants influencing household waste separation intention and behaviour. Based on the theory of planned behaviour (TPB) model, we designed a survey questionnaire by taking account of determinants including residents' attitude, subjective norm, perceived behavioural control, moral obligation, past behaviour, and demographic factors, with the prediction of household waste separation behaviour in mind. After obtaining 628 valid questionnaires from households in the city of Hangzhou, the partial least squares structural equation modelling (PLS-SEM) was conducted to evaluate the effectiveness of each construct. The results indicate that subjective norms, perceived behavioural control, past behaviour and intention significantly predict household waste separation behaviour, with past behaviour being the most significant construct to predict individuals' intention and behaviour. Additional analysis on the moderating effect of different kinds of people in terms of their genders, ages, income levels and perceived policy effectiveness, to further evoke household waste separation behaviours is also discussed. The findings suggest insightful future policies that can focus on residents' habit formation by providing the convenient location of waste separation and collection facilities, encouraging market-driven recycling programs and traders, promoting community campaigns and education which help residents to form favourable habits for protecting the environment.

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“…The quality of waste management therefore has been taken as an indicator of city governance (UN‐Habitat, ). In some urban areas, the presence of the IRS is considered an indicator of poor and failed city governance (Bhuiyan, ; Nzeadibe and Anyadike, ).…”

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Formalising informal solid waste recycling at the Pomona dumpsite in Harare, Zimbabwe

Nemadire

Mapurazi

Nyamadzawo

2017

Natural Resources Forum

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The role of informal recycling in poverty alleviation and solid waste management in cities in developing countries has been receiving increased attention. This study explores the integration of the informal recycling sector with the Harare City Council's solid waste management system, focusing on the Pomona dumpsite. The extent of this integration was compared with interventions proposed in InteRa, a new way of evaluating the integration of informal recyclers with the waste management systems of cities in developing countries. Our results suggest that the Harare City Council, which had the vision of transforming itself into a world‐class city, failed to fully integrate the informal recycling sector. We suggest to policymakers that complete integration of the informal sector will not necessarily prevent cities from achieving such visions. Rather, addressing the neglected interventions may help in achieving their visions.

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“…From mainstream references in the literature to this topic, such as the green city [8], ecological city [9], green economy [10,11], circular economy [12,13], low carbon city [14,15], ecological economy, green development, sustainable development [16], resource saving and environmental friendly society (two-oriented society) [17], we can see that representative achievements are mainly in the fields of indicator systems of regional green development assessment, the comprehensive assessment model and regional coordinated development evaluation methods. To summarize, this research mainly addresses the following research gaps: firstly, how to assess the level of regional green development in a relatively logical and accurate way; secondly, how to develop scientific and effective institutions and policies to help build green cities, provinces and countries based on the assessment results; thirdly, how to find the optimal path for China's green regional development; lastly, how to ultimately realize holistic green sustainable development in terms of human, economic and social aspects.…”

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Assessing Green Development Efficiency of Municipalities and Provinces in China Integrating Models of Super-Efficiency DEA and Malmquist Index

Qing

Wan

2015

Sustainability

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Abstract:In order to realize economic and social green development, to pave a pathway towards China's green regional development and develop effective scientific policy to assist in building green cities and countries, it is necessary to put forward a relatively accurate, scientific and concise green assessment method. The research uses the CCR (A. Charnes & W. W. Cooper & E. Rhodes) Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) model to obtain the green development frontier surface based on 31 regions' annual cross-section data from 2008-2012. Furthermore, in order to classify the regions whereby assessment values equal to 1 in the CCR model, we chose the Super-Efficiency DEA model for further sorting. Meanwhile, according to the five-year panel data, the green development efficiency changes of 31 regions can be manifested by the Malmquist index. Finally, the study assesses the reasons for regional differences; while analyzing and discussing the results may allude to a superior green development pathway for China.

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Social participation in city governance and urban livelihoods: Constraints to the informal recycling economy in Aba, Nigeria

Cited by 52 publications

References 20 publications

Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Understanding Household Waste Separation Behaviour: Testing the Roles of Moral, Past Experience, and Perceived Policy Effectiveness within the Theory of Planned Behaviour

Formalising informal solid waste recycling at the Pomona dumpsite in Harare, Zimbabwe

Assessing Green Development Efficiency of Municipalities and Provinces in China Integrating Models of Super-Efficiency DEA and Malmquist Index

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