Mobilizing resources to collect municipal solid waste: Illustrative East Asian case studies

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 263-274

  Taylor, Donald C ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITI KEBANGSAAN MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

East Asia; Municipal solid waste; Resource mobilization; Stakeholders; Waste collection

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; SOLID WASTES; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; TECHNOLOGY TRANSFER;

COMMUNITY RESOURCE STAKEHOLDERS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW) MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE MOBILIZATION;

REFUSE COLLECTION;

MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; ASIA; COMMUNITY; COST; DECISION MAKING; ORGANIZATION AND MANAGEMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOLID WASTE; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; TECHNOLOGY;

ASIA;

EID: 0032764898     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1034/j.1399-3070.1999.00045.x     Document Type: Article

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