Paradoxes of Households Waste Generation in Bolgatanga

Description

This is a book for all readers. It responses how national data masks local situations and provides evidence-based approach to generate reliable data for improved waste management. The author presents how household level factors based on empirical model determines waste generation and composition for effective policy action on management. The book further takes on academic perspectives with a practical orientation that provides a reliable way for waste management interventions. The context is in a fast-growing urban municipal in Ghana.
The author framed the issue of waste within the global context and its impacts on human health and well-being while contextualizing it in several dimensions to provide a multipurpose value for the different readers for sustainable waste and environmental management.
In the book, the reader will also uncover how household characteristics across different income residences – low, middle, and high influence waste generation. The book was written with different audiences including students, experts, waste management enterprises, environmentalist, and municipal planners in mind.