Municipal Solid Waste Management (MSWM) has become the greatest problem facing many urban and semi-urban areas in Nigeria, although to varying degrees. This study suggests the various steps and approaches to combat the menace in Akure in the southwest zone of Nigeria. Such approaches include creation of special agencies for the collection, recycling and conversion of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW)...

vj]ja rns? standard of education and so forth. As a result I spent much time in bush Co hatching meals being prepared in mud-huts, in shanty towns looking at living sche IOns' w^h sanitary inspectors seeing conservancy schemes or malaria control trile .es> and with Ministers of Health discussing their plans. And in order to get a nativlr^Pressi?n of the pattern of disease I spent as much time s...

The main objective of this research is to understand the meaning of the practices concerning food hygiene in a street market in Salvador, the capital of Bahia State in Brazil. The ethnographic study presents two main categories for symbolic production related to hygiene practices: cleanliness as order and dirtiness as disorder. These cultural codes make correspondence with the studies of Mary D...