Research Catalog

Title

Managing the monster : urban waste and governance in Africa ; edited by Adepoju G. Onibokun.

Publication

Ottawa : International Development Research Centre., 1999.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Onibokun, Adepoju G., 1943-
• International Development Research Centre (Canada)

Description

x, 269 pages : illustrations

Summary

A collection of 6 papers by 4 teams, with the comparative research carried out in Abidjan, Ibadan, Dar es Salaam, and Johannesburg, and coordinated by members of the African Research Network for Urban Management.

Subject

• Refuse and refuse disposal > Africa
• Urbanization > Environmental aspects > Africa
• Metropolitan government > Africa
• Urbanization > Africa
• Africa
• Côte d'Ivoire
• Nigeria
• Tanzania
• South Africa
• environmental policy
• sanitation
• waste management
• 43.42 specific environmental themes
• Urbanization
• Metropolitan government
• Refuse and refuse disposal
• Urbanization > Environmental aspects
• Afvalverwerking
• Steden
• Openbaar bestuur
• Africa

Note

• A collection of 6 papers by 4 teams, with the comparative research carried out in Abidjan, Ibadan, Dar es Salaam, and Johannesburg, and coordinated by members of the African Research Network for Urban Management.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Foreword / Luc J.A Mougeot -- Governance and waste management in Africa / A.G Onibokun and A.J. Kumuyi -- Abidjan, Cote d'Ivoire / Koffi Attahi -- Ibadan, Nigeria / A.G. Onibokun and A.J. Kumuyi -- Dar es Salaam, Tanzania / J.M. Lusugga Kironde -- Johannesburg, South Africa / Mark Swilling and David Hutt -- Synthesis and recommendations / A.G. Onibokun.

ISBN

• 0889368805
• 9780889368804

LCCN

00421112

OCLC

• ocm45669040
• 45669040
• SCSB-1247603

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library