Indicators of waste management efficiency related to different territorial conditions

Waste Management

Volumn 31, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 785-792

  Passarini, Fabrizio ^a   Vassura, Ivano ^a   Monti, Francesco ^a   Morselli, Luciano ^a   Villani, Barbara ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BOLOGNA   (Italy)

^b Regional Environmental Protection Agency (Emilia Romagna Region)   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL PERFORMANCE; INTEGRATED WASTE MANAGEMENT; MANAGEMENT CHARACTERISTICS; MANAGEMENT EFFICIENCY; NORTHERN ITALY; POPULATION DENSITIES; RECYCLING PROCESS; WASTE FRACTION; WASTE GENERATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS;

ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; PLANNING; POPULATION STATISTICS; RENEWABLE ENERGY RESOURCES; RURAL AREAS;

WASTE TREATMENT;

RECYCLING; RURAL AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ALTITUDE; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; ITALY; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POPULATION DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RURAL AREA; SOCIOECONOMICS; TERRITORIALITY; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; DATA COLLECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ITALY; POPULATION DENSITY; PUBLIC OPINION; RECYCLING; SOCIOECONOMIC FACTORS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EMILIA-ROMAGNA; ITALY;

EMILIA;

EID: 79951554665     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.11.021     Document Type: Article

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