Waste or resource? Classifying and scoring dredged material management strategies in terms of the waste hierarchy

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 10, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1657-1668

  Apitz, Sabine Elisabeth ^a  

^a SEA Environmental Decisions Ltd   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Contaminated sediment; Decision frameworks; Dredged material management; Re use; Recycling; Waste hierarchy

Indexed keywords

DECISION MAKING; DREDGE SPOIL; PRIORITIZATION; RECYCLING; SEDIMENT POLLUTION; SUSTAINABILITY; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 78649497597     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-010-0300-9     Document Type: Article

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