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Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance

Authors: NWOGWUGWU Ngozi

Publication Type: Journal article

Journal: Asian Social Science

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Solid waste management is an essential social service of the local government system in Nigeria. The lack of
adequate funding of the local governments has created a situation where most of the cities are dirty as solid
waste is disposed indiscriminately resulting to various public health issues. The establishment of the ecological
fund has not provided effective relief to the problems of environmental governance, including solid waste
management. The study examined the relationship between solid waste management and public health
challenges in Ibadan city, Nigeria. The study adopted survey design, while the population of study was Ibadan
city in Oyo State, Nigeria. Quantitative data was collected using validated questionnaire with response rate of
100%. Correlation coefficient and ANOVA were employed in the testing of the hypotheses. The study found that
there was significant relationship between Politicization of Waste Management and Public Health Challenges (r
= .325, p<.05). In addition, there was significant relationship between Ineffective Management of Solid Waste
and Public Health Challenges (r = .662, p<.05). Indiscriminate Disposal of Solid Waste, Politicization of Solid
Waste and Ineffective Management of solid waste had joint significant effect on Public Health Challenges (F(3,
296) = 22.078, Adj. R2 = .696, p<0> the selected local governments had resulted in ineffective management of solid wastes, with the residents being
exposed to several public health challenges. It was recommended that there should be improved funding of the
waste management agencies to enable them adopt modern waste disposal techniques.

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NWOGWUGWU,N. . (2019). Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance, 155 (), 1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,N. . "Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance" 155, no (), (2019): 1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,N. and . (2019). Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance, 155 (), pp1-1.

NWOGWUGWUN, . Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance. 2019, 155 ():1-1.

NWOGWUGWU,Ngozi , . "Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance", 155 . (2019) : 1-1.

N.Ngozi , "Solid Waste Management and Public Health Challenges: Appraisal of Local Government Capacity to Achieve Effective Environmental Governance" vol.155, no., pp. 1-1, 2019.

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