Solid waste management in Thailand: An overview and case study (Tha Khon Yang sub-district)

Reviews on Environmental Health

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2017, Pages 223-234

  Yukalang, Nachalida ^a,b   Clarke, Beverley Dawn ^a   Ross, Kirstin Elizabeth ^a  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MAHASARAKHAM UNIVERSITY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

Government; Mahasarakham; municipal solid waste; urbanization; waste policy

Indexed keywords

HUMAN; POLLUTION; SOLID WASTE; THAILAND; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION; HUMANS; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; THAILAND; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 85028942380     PISSN: 00487554     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1515/reveh-2016-0061     Document Type: Review

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