The DPSIR model for environmental risk assessment of municipal solid waste in Dar es Salaam city, Tanzania

International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2018, Pages

  Kazuva, Emmanuel ^a,b   Zhang, Jiquan ^a,c   Tong, Zhijun ^a   Si, Alu ^a   Na, Li ^a,c  

^a NORTHEAST NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY OF TANZANIA   (Tanzania)

^c BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Analytical hierarchy process; Dar es Salaam city; DPSIR model; Human health; Municipal solid waste; Risk assessment; Urban environment

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DEVELOPING WORLD; ENVIRONMENTAL RISK; MODELING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; PUBLIC HEALTH; RISK ASSESSMENT; URBAN AREA;

ARTICLE; DEVELOPING COUNTRY; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; HUMAN EXPERIMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; RISK ASSESSMENT; TANZANIA; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; ANALYSIS; CITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EPIDEMIOLOGY; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; PROCEDURES; PUBLIC POLICY; SOLID WASTE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WATER POLLUTION;

DAR ES SALAAM [DAR ES SALAAM (RGA)]; DAR ES SALAAM [TANZANIA]; TANZANIA;

CITIES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; PUBLIC POLICY; RISK ASSESSMENT; SOLID WASTE; TANZANIA; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 85051380375     PISSN: 16617827     EISSN: 16604601     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/ijerph15081692     Document Type: Article

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