Volume 20, Issue 1, January 2016, Pages 111–116
Adiukwu Fidelis Onyekachi1 and ADIUKWU FAYOKEMI FUNMILOLA2
1 Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Nigeria
2 Ekiti State Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender Empowerment & Social Development, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
This paper reviews the challenges of solid waste generation in major cities of Africa; their effect on urbanism, and the socio cultural and economic impact on urban metamorphosis. Paper studies urbanism as a dynamic index of urban metamorphosis, with focus on solid waste management. The need for governance policy, legislation, and an environmentally motivated and enlightened urban residents is a factor mitigating a clean environment. Public education and programs where they exist lacks required exposure, intensity, and connection to correct the apathetic outlook of most urban residents to waste disposal. Paper strongly affirm the need for adequate funding, equipment, human resources, technology and energy use required in dealing with urban metamorphic forces sustaining waste generation. And in conclusion suggests for success to be achieved, a holistic program that integrates technology, socio-cultural, economic, and psychological factors needed in managing urbanization and wastes, in order to boost the positive impact of urban metamorphosis on the continent's cities' sanitation and development.
Author Keywords: Africa, Solid Waste, Urbanism, Urbanization, Urban Metamorphosis, Waste Management.
Adiukwu Fidelis Onyekachi1 and ADIUKWU FAYOKEMI FUNMILOLA2
1 Department of Architecture, Obafemi Awolowo University, Ile- Ife, Nigeria
2 Ekiti State Ministry of Women Affairs, Gender Empowerment & Social Development, Ado-Ekiti, Nigeria
Original language: English
Copyright © 2016 ISSR Journals. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Abstract
This paper reviews the challenges of solid waste generation in major cities of Africa; their effect on urbanism, and the socio cultural and economic impact on urban metamorphosis. Paper studies urbanism as a dynamic index of urban metamorphosis, with focus on solid waste management. The need for governance policy, legislation, and an environmentally motivated and enlightened urban residents is a factor mitigating a clean environment. Public education and programs where they exist lacks required exposure, intensity, and connection to correct the apathetic outlook of most urban residents to waste disposal. Paper strongly affirm the need for adequate funding, equipment, human resources, technology and energy use required in dealing with urban metamorphic forces sustaining waste generation. And in conclusion suggests for success to be achieved, a holistic program that integrates technology, socio-cultural, economic, and psychological factors needed in managing urbanization and wastes, in order to boost the positive impact of urban metamorphosis on the continent's cities' sanitation and development.
Author Keywords: Africa, Solid Waste, Urbanism, Urbanization, Urban Metamorphosis, Waste Management.
How to Cite this Article
Adiukwu Fidelis Onyekachi and ADIUKWU FAYOKEMI FUNMILOLA, “URBANISM, SOLID WASTE AND URBAN METAMORPHOSIS IN AFRICA,” International Journal of Innovation and Scientific Research, vol. 20, no. 1, pp. 111–116, January 2016.
