Waste management and government in Beirut
In a recent edition of the Washington PostMSM’s Assistant Professor and Research Fellow Nora Stel and Rola El-Husseini from the City University of New York provide an analysis of the current garbage crisis that citizens of Beirut face.
They write that ‘both the ongoing waste crisis in Beirut and the 2012 crisis in south Lebanon lie in a governmental impasse caused by political infighting over lucrative deals’, and call for improved governance that will recognize that public services are rights, not privileges and that people are citizens, not clients.
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