Assessment of practices that urban dwellers do for environmental management in Kinondoni municipality
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2011
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Sokoine University of Agriculture
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This study was conducted in Kinondoni Municipal Council in Dar es Salaam region.
Tanzania. The main objective of the study was to investigate the environmental
management practices of the urban dwellers in their residential areas. A simple random
sampling procedure was employed to obtain a sample of 85 households from two divisions
namely: Kinondoni and Magomeni. Data were collected through personal observations.
administration of structured questionnaire and key informant interview. The collected data
were coded and analysed using the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS)
computer program. Both quantitative and qualitative methods of data analysis were
employed. It was revealed that about 93% of the residents in Kinondoni Municipality
involved in environmental management practices. The linear regression results showed that
domestic waste collection practice and cleaning the surroundings were statistically
significance (p<0.05). This implies that these were the major environmental management
practices of the urban dwellers in their residential areas. The study also found out that
social, economical, political and cultural factors such as among others income levels,
education levels, municipal guidelines, bylaws, and plot sizes influenced urban dwellers'
participation in residential environmental management activities. The study concludes that
majority of the residents participated differently in residential environmental management
activities due to differences in their socio-economic, cultural and political orientations. The
study recommends that the central government through local government authorities
should lay down proper policy mechanisms for promoting dwellers’ participation in
environmental management at the residential areas. In addition, municipal authorities
should ensure that urban dwellers in residential areas are provided with supporting
environmental management infrastructures such as tap water and better drainage systems,
which will enable them to participate fully in the environmental management activities.
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Urban dwellers, Environmental management, Kinondoni municipality