Transportation of Petroleum Product in Nigeria: the institutional, environmental and distributional constraints
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2020-03
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Studies in the Social Sciences
Abstract
This paper analyzed the effects that the absence of a comprehensive public policy
guiding the safe and eco-friendly conveyance of petroleum products (as part of the
safe conveyance of dangerous goods by road) have on the operating environment, in
the sub-Saharan Africa and Nigeria. The failed effort of the various institutions that
ought to formulate this policy at the regional, sub-regional and national levels and the
subsequent effect on safety practices on road transport is dissected. The paper
applied the theoretical lens of institution theory and theory of constraint to critically
examine the role that weak institutions have on reducing identified constraints
associated with the eco-friendly conveyance of petroleum products by road.