Building waste management core indicators through Spatial Material Flow Analysis: Net recovery and transport intensity indexes

Waste Management

Volumn 32, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 2496-2510

  Font Vivanco, David ^a,b   Puig Ventosa, Ignasi ^c   Gabarrell Durany, Xavier ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIA I TECNOLOGIA AMBIENTALS   (Spain)

^b LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c ENT Environment and Management   (Spain)

Author keywords

Bio waste management; Municipal waste management; Spatial Material Flow Analysis; Waste management indicators; Waste recovery; Waste transport

Indexed keywords

BIO-WASTE; CATALONIA; MANAGEMENT POLICY; MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES; MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS; MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGICAL APPROACH; NETWORK-BASED; PRIORITIZATION; RECOVERY INDEX; SCENARIO BUILDING; SOCIAL PERFORMANCE; SPATIAL CHARACTERIZATION; SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES; WASTE FLOWS; WASTE RECOVERIES; WASTE TRANSPORT;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PROXIMITY INDICATORS; RECOVERY; SPATIAL VARIABLES MEASUREMENT;

WASTE MANAGEMENT;

MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLICY STRATEGY; RECYCLING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TRANSPORT;

ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; CONTROL SYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; LIFE CYCLE ASSESSMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS DEVELOPMENT; RECYCLING; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPAIN; SPATIAL MATERIAL FLOW ANALYSIS; STRATEGIC PLANNING; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CITIES; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 84870241955     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.06.010     Document Type: Article

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