ABSTRACT
Discussions of management have spread from fields of development and urban affairs into environmental matters. One aim in grasping the urban management concept was to encourage new perspectives and innovation, to get institutions out of the rut of day to day repetition, if for no other reason than because that failed so badly. On the threshold of the Century of the City, when the urban environment will surround most of the world's people as they work, play, and rest, it is logical the quality of this environment must be a major focus of environmental management in general. By the logic of improved management, greater transparency in decision making and in the dealings of implementation will result from the participation of more actors of a greater diversity. The Accra case bears watching as it lines up actors in the business and community sector behind the drive to reduce pollution of the Korle Lagoon.
