Ecology in urban planning: Mitigating the environmental damage of municipal solid waste

Sustainability

Volumn 4, Issue 9, 2012, Pages 1966-1983

  Staniunas, Mindaugas ^a   Burinskiene, Marija ^a   Maliene, Vida ^b  

^a VILNIUS GEDIMINAS TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^b LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Mitigation; Sustainability; Urban planning; Waste

Indexed keywords

EID: 84872373864     PISSN: 20711050     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/su4091966     Document Type: Article

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