Municipal solid waste flow and waste generation characteristics in an urban-rural fringe area in Thailand

Waste Management and Research

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 951-960

  Hiramatsu, Ai ^a   Hara, Yuji ^a   Sekiyama, Makiko ^a   Honda, Ryo ^a   Chiemchaisri, Chart ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KASETSART UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Formal informal sector; GIS; Land use; Municipal solid waste (MSW) management; Resource circulating society

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL FIELDS; BANGKOK; GIS; HOUSEHOLD WASTE; INTEGRATED MANAGEMENT; INTERVIEW SURVEY; KITCHEN GARBAGE; LOCAL COMMUNITY; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; LOCAL RESIDENTS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC WASTES; RESIDENTIAL AREAS; STUDY AREAS; THAILAND; URBAN-RURAL; WASTE COLLECTION; WASTE FLOWS; WASTE GENERATION; YARD WASTES;

AUTOMOBILES; GARBAGE TRUCKS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LAND USE; SEWAGE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

SOLID WASTES;

ESTIMATION METHOD; GIS; GPS; LAND USE; LOCAL GOVERNMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; TRACKING; URBANIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DOMESTIC WASTE; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEM; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; LAND USE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; ORGANIC WASTE; POLICY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECYCLING; RESIDENTIAL AREA; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STRUCTURED INTERVIEW; THAILAND; URBAN RURAL DIFFERENCE; URBANIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CITIES; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; THAILAND; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

BANGKOK; CENTRAL REGION [THAILAND]; KRUNG THEP MAHANAKHON; NONTHABURI; THAILAND;

EID: 73549089243     PISSN: 0734242X     EISSN: 10963669     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0734242X09103819     Document Type: Article

References (10)

1. Bortoleto, A.P. & Hanaki, K. (2007) Report: Citizen participation as a part of integrated solid waste management: Porto Alegre case. Waste Management & Research, 25, 276-282.
2. Evers, H.D. (1984) Urban landownership, ethnicity and class in South-east Asian cities. International Journal of Urban and Regional Research, 8, 481-496.
3. Global Environmental Forum (1999) Overseas Environmental Measures of Japanese Companies (Thailand), Research Report on Trends in Environmental Considerations related to Overseas Activities of Japanese Companies FY 1998, Environmental Agency (former Ministry of the Environment of Japan).
4. Hara, Y., Takeuchi, K., & Okubo, S. (2005) Urbanization linked with past agricultural land use patterns in the urban fringe of a deltaic Asian mega-city: a case study in Bangkok. Landscape and Urban Planning, 73, 16-28.
5. Honda, R., Hara, Y., Sekiyama, M., & Hiramatsu, A. (2006) Land-use Strategies for Integration of Urban and Rural Area towards a Recycling Society in the Urban Fringe of Asian Mega-cities - a Field Survey Report in Nonthaburi Province, Thailand. Kankyo Anzen, Environment Science Center, The University of Tokyo, 111, pp. 7-11 (in Japanese).
6. Nonthaburi Province (2005) Interim Report: Environmental Impact Study for the Electricity Generation from Municipal Solid Waste Project. Nonthaburi Province, Thailand (in Thai).
7. Siriratpiriya, O. (2006) Prospective plan for development on solid waste management in Thailand. In: Proc. of the 2nd Expert Meeting on Solid Waste Management in Asia and Pacific Islands, Kitakyushu, November 2006, Japan.
8. Takiguchi, H., Takemoto, K., & Hotta, Y. (2007) International development of the 3Rs and issues in Asia. Journal of the Japan Society of Civil Engineers, 63, No. 4, 326-331 (in Japanese).
9. Thailand Environment Monitor (2003) A joint publication of the Pollution Control Department (PCD) of Thailands Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment (MoNRE), the World Bank (WB), the United States-Asia Environmental Partnership (USAEP), and Japan Bank for International cooperation (JBIC). From WB, http://go.worldbank.org/VUVHIV3OL0 (accessed July 15 2007).
10. Yokohari, M., Takeuchi, K., Watanabe, T., & Yokota, S. (2000) Beyond greenbelts and zoning: a new planning concept for the environment of Asian mega-cities. Landscape and Urban Planning, 47, 159-171.