Sustainable municipal solid waste management in low income group of cities: A review

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 52, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 123-121

  Jha, Arvind K ^a   Singh, S K ^a   Singh, G P ^b   Gupta, Prabhat K ^c  

^a A N COLLEGE   (India)

^b Department of Botany   (India)

^c NATIONAL PHYSICAL LABORATORY   (India)

Author keywords

Landfill; Low income group cities; Municipal solid waste; Sustainable development

Indexed keywords

BUILDING; INCOME DISTRIBUTION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; LANDFILL; LIFE CYCLE ANALYSIS; LITERATURE REVIEW; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78149382792     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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