Cultural Dimension of Environmental Problems: A critical overview of waste generation and management in Nigeria
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2021
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CRIBFB, USA
Abstract
Several studies have presented solid waste generation and management in urban centres as an
engineering and technological concern. These studies neglected culture as the basic
determinants of all happenings in human society; hence, the cultural facets of solid waste
generation and management were rendered insignificant. As culture provides the context within
which all human activities take place, culture was envisaged in this paper as a driving force for
public perception, decision making and participation in solid waste generation and management
in urban centres. Therefore, this study adopted both meta-analysis and meta-synthesis to
pinpoint and discuss some theoretical key cultural factors and social practices influencing
municipal solid waste generation and management. It identified trends and relationship between
findings from the available empirical and theoretical studies. This paper discovered in the
available relevant literature that cultural factors such as customs, belief and attitude of the
urbanites that promoted their preference for food packaged with non-biodegradable material
and the ways they conducted social practices resulted in solid waste generation. Lastly, methods
and the cost of solid waste disposal, individualism and nonchalant attitude of people were found
as the factors militating against proper management of solid wastes.
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Social Practices, Solid Waste, Urbanites, Belief, Perception
Citation
Ajani O. A. & Fakunle S. O. (2021). Cultural dimension of environmental problems: A critical overview of waste generation and management in Nigeria. American International Journal of Multidisciplinary Scientific Research, 8(1), 1-15. ISSN 2638-1249 E-ISSN 2638-1273. https://doi.org/10.46281/aijmsr.v8i1.1110