Cooperation among small urban centres in the Lake Victoria Basin as a necessary strategy for managing solid waste: the case of Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities

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dc.contributor.authorMireri, C.
dc.contributor.authorMajale, Christine Liyala
dc.date.accessioned2014-07-23T08:26:50Z
dc.date.available2014-07-23T08:26:50Z
dc.date.issued2014-01
dc.descriptionDOI 10.1504/IJEWM.2014.060453en_US
dc.description.abstractSolid waste management remains a daunting task for small municipalities found in the Lake Victoria Basin. The situation is aggravated by low prioritisation of solid waste management, limited revenues for financing waste management and the ever increasing population in these municipalities. Cooperation offers an option that can be considered as it would allow neighbouring municipal councils to pool their resources together to address this common challenge. This is pegged on achieving economies of scale and internalising externalities. Using interviews, stakeholders workshop, observation and documents review, this paper presents findings and conclusions to a study that was carried out to assess opportunities for cooperation amongst three small neighbouring municipal authorities in the Lake Victoria Basin namely Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalities. This paper concludes that cooperation provides a necessary strategy to addressing solid waste management challenges and that there are indeed various opportunities within the institutional organisation and along the waste chain for cooperation in order to jointly accomplish this.en_US
dc.identifier.citationInternational Journal of Environment and Waste Management Volume 13, Number 4 / January 2014 412-428en_US
dc.identifier.issn1478-9876
dc.identifier.issn1478-9868
dc.identifier.urihttp://ir-library.ku.ac.ke/handle/123456789/10572
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherInderscience Publishersen_US
dc.subjectEnvironment and Sustainable Developmenten_US
dc.titleCooperation among small urban centres in the Lake Victoria Basin as a necessary strategy for managing solid waste: the case of Kisii, Homa Bay and Migori municipalitiesen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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