Systems approaches to integrated solid waste management in developing countries

Waste Management

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 988-1003

  Marshall, Rachael E ^a   Farahbakhsh, Khosrow ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GUELPH   (Canada)

Author keywords

Complex adaptive systems; Developing countries; Industrialized countries; Integrated solid waste management; Post normal science; Systems approaches

Indexed keywords

COMPLEX ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; INDUSTRIALIZED COUNTRIES; INTEGRATED SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENTS; POST-NORMAL SCIENCE; SYSTEMS APPROACH;

ADAPTIVE SYSTEMS; CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ECONOMICS; INDUSTRY; PUBLIC HEALTH; SOLID WASTES; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

STORM SEWERS;

DEVELOPING WORLD; INTEGRATED APPROACH; POLLUTION POLICY; SOLID WASTE; URBAN POPULATION; URBANIZATION; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; AWARENESS; BEHAVIOR CHANGE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CULTURAL FACTOR; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL SANITATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; INDUSTRIALIZATION; POLITICAL PARTICIPATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PUBLIC HEALTH; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; URBANIZATION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEVELOPED COUNTRIES; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PUBLIC HEALTH; PUBLIC OPINION; PUBLIC POLICY; SYSTEMS ANALYSIS; URBANIZATION; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84875804038     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: 18792456     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2012.12.023     Document Type: Article

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