ABSTRACT Lagos is undoubtedly the cultural capital and economic hub of the West African sub-region. The challenge of municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in the megacity has remained intractable due partly to the increasing rate of population growth. While solid waste policy reforms, investments, and management practices in Lagos are in the upswing in the formal economy, the role of the informal economy in engendering sub-regional material linkages and livelihoods remain unexplored. Adopting a multi-stakeholder approach and data from interviews, this study critically examines how value reclamation from informal MSWM advances green neoliberalism and inclusive development. It shows that while informal transboundary trade of recyclable materials in the West African sub-region have previously been left out of analyses of MSWM in Lagos, the informal economy of waste and new investments in MSWM have neoliberal underpinnings beyond the megacity scale. The paper concludes that integrating the informal economy in framing MSWM policy in the megacity offers scope for evolving an inclusive development strategy while also enabling sustainable MSWM in the post-2015 era.

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从非正式城市固体废物管理中回收价值：尼日利亚拉各斯的绿色新自由主义和包容性发展

摘要 拉各斯无疑是西非次区域的文化之都和经济中心。大城市中城市固体废物管理 (MSWM) 的挑战仍然难以解决，部分原因是人口增长率不断提高。虽然拉各斯的固体废物政策改革、投资和管理实践在正规经济中处于上升阶段，但非正规经济在产生次区域物质联系和生计方面的作用仍未得到探索。本研究采用多利益相关方的方法和访谈数据，批判性地研究了非正式 MSWM 的价值回收如何推进绿色新自由主义和包容性发展。它表明，虽然西非次区域的可回收材料的非正式跨界贸易以前被排除在拉各斯的 MSWM 分析之外，垃圾的非正规经济和对 MSWM 的新投资具有超越大城市规模的新自由主义基础。本文得出的结论是，将非正规经济纳入特大城市的 MSWM 政策制定过程中，为制定包容性发展战略提供了空间，同时还能在 2015 年后实现可持续 MSWM。