Solid waste management in Asian countries: Problems and issues

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 109, Issue , 2008, Pages 643-653

  Khajuria, A ^a   Yamamoto, Y ^a   Morioka, T ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

GDP per capita; Management of solid waste; Population growth; Solid waste; Urban growth rate; Waste generation

Indexed keywords

CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; POPULATION GROWTH; SOLID WASTE; URBANIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ASIA; EURASIA;

EID: 58849133394     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/WM080661     Document Type: Article

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