Date of Award

2013

Document Type

Research Paper

First Advisor

Erika Fradinger

Abstract

This project is multidimensional including data from questionnaires, inventories, maps, life stories, focus groups and interviews to create a data analysis on the socioeconomic status of people living on the Kumbon landfill. This students shares history of the landfill and explains how the pile of waste has become both home and work to a population of people. They write, Socioeconomic studies in this community are very limited due to the overwhelming environmental health hazards that are affecting surrounding communities. Governments and individual research faculties have been more interested to the effect to the surrounding villages than to the actual people living on the landfill. Socioeconomic studies are important because they can bring new insight to the chaotic landfill situation and the even greater insight to the bigger problem of poverty.

Comments

WSP Major: Human Health and Welfare/Biology

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