A framework for sustainable waste management: challenges and opportunities

Management Research Review

Volumn 38, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1086-1097

  Elsaid, Sarah ^a   Aghezzaf, El Houssaine ^a  

^a GHENT UNIVERSITY   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Integrated waste management models; Municipal solid waste; Sustainability; Waste cost modeling

Indexed keywords

EID: 84947059928     PISSN: 20408269     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1108/MRR-11-2014-0264     Document Type: Article

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