Evaluation of public participation in the management of municipal solid waste (Case Study: Abadan)

Subject Areas : Water and Environment

Arash Zamanian ¹ , Forouzan Farrokhian ²

1 - Department of Environmental Management, Ahvaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran.
2 - Department of Environmental Management, Khouzestan Science and Research Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahvaz, Iran. *(Corresponding Author)

Received: 2015-04-29 Accepted : 2016-01-11 Published : 2018-03-21

Keywords: Municipal waste management, participation, Gender, Education, Age structure, Job status,

Abstract :

Nowadays, environmental awareness as one of the weaknesses in the management of municipal solid waste is considered. The study was a cross-sectional study was conducted in 1393. For the combined method (method, field, library and documentary, analytical and descriptive) was used. To investigate the contribution of Abadan in the management of solid waste questions in the questionnaire items and Likert five spectral survey of residents in urban areas were used. Accordingly, 383 questionnaires were collected and distributed throughout the city. According to the general theory study of the one-sample T-test was used. In order to evaluate the effect of gender on the participation of T test and impact of education, employment status, income, age structure and status of the contribution of ANOVA test was used. Scheffe's test was used to examine the association between level of education and income levels of participation were used. Thus, the highest participation of citizens in waste management Abadan mean was 3.25 for housewives. The age structure of participation is not effective and the most willing to participate in the Group income (in Toman) of a million to one million five hundred thousand were determined. As a result development and implementation of the operational plan in the field of culturalization and awareness level raising in order to participate more citizens among unemployed, businessman, governments jobs, students and different level income include lower and upper wage between people of Abadan is centralized.

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