Municipal household solid waste collection strategies in an African megacity: Analysis of public private partnership performance in Lagos

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 32, Issue , 2014, Pages 67-78

  Aliu, Ibrahim Rotimi ^a   Adeyemi, Oluwagbemiga Ezekiel ^a   Adebayo, Adeolu ^a  

^a LAGOS STATE UNIVERSITY   (Nigeria)

Author keywords

Developing economies; Lagos megacity; Municipal solid waste; Operational quality; Public private partnership; Service reliability; Waste management

Indexed keywords

AIRSHIPS; HOUSING; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOLID WASTES; SURVEYS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

DEVELOPING ECONOMIES; MEGACITIES; OPERATIONAL QUALITY; PUBLIC PRIVATE PARTNERSHIPS; SERVICE RELIABILITY;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; MEGACITY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERCEPTION; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POLICY MAKING; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SUSTAINABILITY; URBAN DEVELOPMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; DOMESTIC WASTE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC-PRIVATE PARTNERSHIP; SOCIAL STATUS; SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; CITY; ECONOMICS; FAMILY SIZE; NIGERIA; PROCEDURES; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMICS; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE DISPOSAL;

LAGOS [LAGOS (STT)]; LAGOS [NIGERIA]; NIGERIA;

SOLID WASTE;

CITIES; FAMILY CHARACTERISTICS; NIGERIA; PUBLIC-PRIVATE SECTOR PARTNERSHIPS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; SOLID WASTE;

EID: 84925738883     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X14544354     Document Type: Article

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