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. 2023 Jun 28;20(13):6245.
doi: 10.3390/ijerph20136245.

A Rapid Review of Sociocultural Dimensions in Nigeria's Solid Waste Management Approach

Thomas Akintayo  1   2 , Juha Hämäläinen  2 , Pertti Pasanen  1 , Iniobong John  3   4
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A Rapid Review of Sociocultural Dimensions in Nigeria's Solid Waste Management Approach

Thomas Akintayo et al. Int J Environ Res Public Health. .

Abstract

Against the background of an arguable dearth of scholarship on the sociocultural dimensions of Nigeria's solid waste management strategies and practices, this rapid review searched for evidence in the literature. A rapid evidence review and qualitative meta-summary procedure were implemented to utilize the rigor of systematic literature review that met the timelines and limited funding available for this study. It is more appropriate to identify, extract, and synthesize a mixture of qualitative and/or quantitative empirical evidence in the literature. This rapid review found little substantive evidence of scholarly sociocultural approaches in Nigeria's solid waste management. It also discovered constant factors of inadequate and weak multidisciplinary or non-holistic approaches to driving innovation and effective social impact in Nigeria's solid waste management practices. The results were interpreted vis-à-vis the need to leverage the social sciences, particularly the range and scope of social work practice configurations and possibilities, to scientifically advance and substantially accelerate the implementation of evidence-based policy and practice in Nigeria's solid waste management system. This rapid review concluded that the negative results are due to the insufficient conceptual and theoretical bases for Nigeria's solid waste management strategies and/or practices.

Keywords: circular economy; interdisciplinarity; recycling; refuse management; sociocultural intervention; sustainability.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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The hierarchy of the relationships among the main concepts of SD since 1987.
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An adapted form of Wigboldus et al.’s (2001) multi-level perspective [42].
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PRISMA 2020 flow diagram of the study selection process [47].
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Group 2.
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