TITLE:
The Construction of Household Waste Territories in Yaounde: A Centre-Periphery Analysis
AUTHORS:
Joel Motto Moudio
KEYWORDS:
Central Actor, Peripheral Actor, Waste Management, Construction of Territories and Yaounde
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Journal of Social Sciences,
Vol.9 No.6,
June
30,
2021
ABSTRACT: This contribution engages an analysis of the complementarity
relationships in local waste management to the requirement of a coherent urban
governance that is informed by the theoretical approach of the centre-periphery
relationship. It is interested in the essence of the construction of the
central and peripheral territories of household waste as a result of the
processes and logics of central and peripheral actor figures. The
choice of the study area was made in response to the objectives of analyzing
the logics of spatialized actors and observing the practices of household waste
circulation in these different spaces. We analyze two scales of entry: the
Yaounde urban community and the district councils [of Yaounde 6 and 3] that make up the community, which are more marked
by a strong pre-collection and collection of household waste by the
private sector on the one hand, as well as Hysacam. Data collection was based
on a variety of institutional and scientific documentary sources and on
non-structured interviews with officials and non-officials. The Yaounde Urban
Council (YUC), pre-collection operators, NGOs and waste collection companies—PAN
and Hysacam constitute sites of investigation.