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Item Improving food security through environmental management in lbadan: The case of the Ayeye community(Urban agricultural magazine, 2010) Wahab, B.O.; Sridhar, M.K C.; Ayorinde, A. A.Solid waste disposal is a nagging problem faced by various communities in Ibadan in southwest Nigeria and other state capitals. lbadan, the capital of Oyo State, is the most densely populated city in the state with over three million inhabitants. It is said that in Ibadan every street is a market. Many backyards are used for growing local vegetables and medicinal herbs.Item The relevance of the environmental planning and management (EPM) process to local government and the responsibilities of the local government: the case of sustainable Ibadan project (sip), Nigeria(Journal of the Nigerian institute of town planners, 1998) Wahab, B.O.Nigerian cities which are supposed to be development centres are currently plagued with environmental problems of various types. There has, however, been the recognition that better city management practices will facilitate attempts at minimizing those environmental problems. Moreover, combined efforts of the federal. state and local governments, as well as those of the private sector will be needed in order to deal effectively with urban problems. Using the participant - observation research approach, the paper investigates the relevance of environmental planning and management process to local governments, and identifies some of the roles of local governments within the process. It, in particular, highlights the roles of planners in facilitating activities of local governments in implementation of the sustainable Ibadan Programme (SIP). It argues that the environmental problems facing Ibadan Metropolis can be effectively addressed in a sustainable manner by application of participatory and interactive environmental planning and management (EPM) processItem "Learning from craft taxonomies: development and a Yoruba textile tradition. "(Indigenous knowledge and development monitor, 1995) Wolff, N.H.; Wahab, B.O.The value of eliciting .taxonomies to reveal the local knowledge of local communities about their natural and cultural world has been appreciated by anthropologists and developers for several decades. Craft taxonomies receive little attention, despite the role they play in structuring the indigenous knowledge which underlies handicraft industries in the informal sector of developing economies. The resilience of Yoruba indigenous hand-woven cloth industries has been proven again and again, as forces of change have tested the readiness of weavers to adapt to shifts in taste, competition from outside markets, "changing technologies, and the lure of modern-sector occupations. Although the textile taxonomy presented in this article is preliminary and still in progress, it is an example of indigenous knowledge in action, where choices are constantly being made on the basis of contemporary tastes and markets.Item Building clean cities in Nigeria: an overview(Nigerian institute of town planners, 2014) Wahab, B.O.Item Disaster risk management in Nigerian rural and urban settlement(Nigerian institute of town planners, 2013) Wahab, B.O.Item Handling of biomedical wastes(Ibadan university press, 2009) Wahab, B.O.; Sridhar, M.K C.Item Some aspects of physical planning and development in Nigeria(Department of Urban & Regional Planning, 2008) Wahab, B.O.Item Elements of Rural Housing(Department of Urban & Regional Planning, 2007) Wahab, B.O.Item Sustainable community-based development project approach in the new millennium: the need for project planners at the local government level(Counstellation books, 2006) Wahab, B.O.Item The institutionalization of the environmental planning and management process(Counstellation books, 2006) Wahab, B.O.