- The Palgrave Handbook of Sustainability pp 313-329 https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-319-71389-2_16
Abstract
The centrality of waste collection and recycling to the lives of the poor in African cities in the post-2015 development era was the main motivation for this study. Unfortunately, the informal waste economy in Africa is generally excluded from mainstream of urban governance and socio-economic processes. As a result, vulnerabilities abound in the informal waste-based livelihoods. Using a case study of waste workers in the city of Aba in Nigeria, this chapter examines urban vulnerability as a converse to social sustainability of waste workers in Nigerian cities. While noting the relevance of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) 8 and 11 to urban sustainability of livelihoods of informal waste workers, the chapter argues that location within the urban area can be a factor of pickers’ vulnerability while collective organizing and social innovation can be crucial to countering trends of exclusion. It is further argued that development intervention should aim at achieving more inclusive cities as inclusion could be a strong factor in ensuring improved well-being and sustainability of the waste economy in Nigerian cities.Keywords
Urban vulnerability Informal economy Waste picking Social innovation Sustainable development goals
Chidi Nzeadibe & Adaeze U.P Ejike-Alieji (2020) Solid waste management during Covid-19 pandemic: policy gaps and prospects for inclusive waste governance in Nigeria. Local Environment, https://doi.org/10.1080/13549839.2020.1782357 Abstract Solid waste management (SWM) is a public health service whose importance is often understated. When the solid waste management challenge is exacerbated by a public health emergency such as the Covid-19 pandemic, its real significance as an essential service becomes more apparent. The outbreak and spread of the novel coronavirus (Covid-19) has led to dramatic transformations of e very sector of the Nigerian society including SWM systems, where formal and informal actors co-exist often in an uneasy relationship. Unfortunately, strategies for inclusive management of solid wastes during and after the Covid-19 pandemic are lacking in Nigeria, fuelling the further exclusion of informal sector in t...
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