There is an estimated 16 million housing units shortfall in Nigeria and the government cannot meet the housing needs of Nigerians because of budgetary constraints and other competing needs. It is important to note that the leaders have failed on numerous occasions to tackle the key challenges associated with a lack of infrastructure development. The emphasis has been placed on the individual homeowners fulfilling all their own requirements. The aim of this research is to develop a framework that will aid sustainable housing delivery in Lagos one of the most challenged areas of Nigeria. A clearer picture of the housing environment in Lagos was documented based on critical literature reviews, analysis of the reasons why there is a deficiency in housing and its infrastructure delivery. The aim of the researcher was following the identification of the challenges to draw up a framework that would assist the relevant stakeholders namely the householders, developers and government in overcoming these and delivering further sustainable housing. The research was completed using a mixed method including qualitative and quantitative means of acquiring necessary information in the form of a detailed literature review followed by a questionnaire survey of 500 household respondents. A total of 496 sets of data were collected through the questionnaire survey and analysed using SPSS, Excel and selected statistical methods. Validation of the framework was done using focus group discussions with stakeholders. Interviews with key housing and government personnel were also held including an analysis of 5 case studies. The key findings are that 1) the market economy approach along with flexible, efficient economic instruments are key factors in enabling the construction industry to positively respond to sustainable development in terms of resource efficiencies and environmental protection in a developing economy like Nigeria. 2) The social and political barriers cannot be overcome without a meeting of wills amongst the stakeholders. 3) There needs to be transparency and the desire to achieve the objective so the monitors will be effective to counteract dissatisfied individuals that will come out of the bureaucratic woodwork. 4) There needs to be an urban redesign driven by stakeholders keen to see government policy align with sustainable housing objectives. Key recommendations from this research are that: 1) The government should partner with the private sector to provide enough homes for Nigerians. 2) The government should henceforth concentrate in outlining good policy framework for the sector providing much needed infrastructural and financial support that will encourage sustainability and systematic development of housing in the country. The framework developed in this research is envisaged to be contributory in road mapping the way and identifying key attributes and strategy for delivering sustainable housing in Lagos, Nigeria.

O reconhecimento do bem ambiental e sua efetivação pelos entes estatais demonstra a necessidade de se prover mecanismos de atuação preventiva e corretiva na preservação do meio ambiente, como pressuposto para preservação da própria humanidade. Vários mecanismos de cunho processual são postos à disposição do cidadão para controlar, fiscalizar e exigir a adoção de medidas de preservação em face da finitude dos recursos ambientais existentes. Nesse aspecto, a participação da população na fiscalização e no controle da gestão política do meio ambiente é medida salutar para a preservação do bem ambiental. Entretanto, entraves de ordem processual, aliados ao fato de que o Brasil apresenta contextos culturais, sociais e econômicos com grande disparidade, se demonstram como óbices na efetiva preservação ambiental e mesmo na adoção de políticas públicas necessárias à manutenção e preservação do bem ambiental. Surge assim a necessidade de se prover as instituições de Estado de um novo modelo de gestão dos recursos ambientais, em especial os municípios, onde ocorrem a maior parte das ações administrativas de licenciamento ambiental, bem como, uma nova leitura do processo que passa a gerir direitos difusos e transindividuais nesse atual modelo de atuação na preservação ambiental. / Submitted by Marcelo Teixeira (mvteixeira@ucs.br) on 2014-06-04T16:58:04Z No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Ailor Carlos Brandelli.pdf: 563581 bytes, checksum: ec8c76a9e4bb6215765610727689ebfb (MD5) / Made available in DSpace on 2014-06-04T16:58:04Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 Dissertacao Ailor Carlos Brandelli.pdf: 563581 bytes, checksum: ec8c76a9e4bb6215765610727689ebfb (MD5) / The recognition of the ambient good and its realization for the state beings demonstrate the necessity of if providing mechanisms with preventive and corrective performance in the preservation of the environment, as estimated for preservation of the proper humanity. Some mechanisms of procedural matrix are ranks the disposal of the citizen to control, to fiscalize and to demand the adoption of measures of preservation in face of the finitude of the existing environmental resources. In this aspect, the participation of the population in the fiscalization and the control of the management politics of the environment is measured to healthy for the preservation of the ambient good. However, impediments of procedural order, allies to the fact of that Brazil presents cultural contexts, social and economic with great disparity, if demonstrate as obstacles in effective the ambient and same preservation in the adoption of necessary public politics to the maintenance and preservation of the ambient good. It appears thus the necessity of if providing the institutions with State with a new model with management with the environmental resources, in special the cities, where they occur most of the administrative cases of ambient licensing, as well as, a new reading of the process that starts to manage diffuse and transindividual rights in this current model of performance in the ambient preservation.

O reconhecimento do bem ambiental e sua efetivação pelos entes estatais demonstra a necessidade de se prover mecanismos de atuação preventiva e corretiva na preservação do meio ambiente, como pressuposto para preservação da própria humanidade. Vários mecanismos de cunho processual são postos à disposição do cidadão para controlar, fiscalizar e exigir a adoção de medidas de preservação em face da finitude dos recursos ambientais existentes. Nesse aspecto, a participação da população na fiscalização e no controle da gestão política do meio ambiente é medida salutar para a preservação do bem ambiental. Entretanto, entraves de ordem processual, aliados ao fato de que o Brasil apresenta contextos culturais, sociais e econômicos com grande disparidade, se demonstram como óbices na efetiva preservação ambiental e mesmo na adoção de políticas públicas necessárias à manutenção e preservação do bem ambiental. Surge assim a necessidade de se prover as instituições de Estado de um novo modelo de gestão dos recursos ambientais, em especial os municípios, onde ocorrem a maior parte das ações administrativas de licenciamento ambiental, bem como, uma nova leitura do processo que passa a gerir direitos difusos e transindividuais nesse atual modelo de atuação na preservação ambiental. / The recognition of the ambient good and its realization for the state beings demonstrate the necessity of if providing mechanisms with preventive and corrective performance in the preservation of the environment, as estimated for preservation of the proper humanity. Some mechanisms of procedural matrix are ranks the disposal of the citizen to control, to fiscalize and to demand the adoption of measures of preservation in face of the finitude of the existing environmental resources. In this aspect, the participation of the population in the fiscalization and the control of the management politics of the environment is measured to healthy for the preservation of the ambient good. However, impediments of procedural order, allies to the fact of that Brazil presents cultural contexts, social and economic with great disparity, if demonstrate as obstacles in effective the ambient and same preservation in the adoption of necessary public politics to the maintenance and preservation of the ambient good. It appears thus the necessity of if providing the institutions with State with a new model with management with the environmental resources, in special the cities, where they occur most of the administrative cases of ambient licensing, as well as, a new reading of the process that starts to manage diffuse and transindividual rights in this current model of performance in the ambient preservation.