Waste Management and Planning

By: J.C. Powell (Editor), R.K. Turner (Editor), I.J. Bateman (Editor)

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Hardcover | 1 January 2001

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"Waste Management and Planning" presents a comprehensive selection of leading papers covering four main aspects of waste management: the waste problem, evaluation of waste management options, economic instruments, and legislation and policy. Part 1 examines the technical aspects of waste management in developing countries, such as waste generation, composition, management options and technologies. Part 2 discusses the evaluation of waste management options and includes papers on lifecycle assessment, multicriteria evaluation, and economic assessments. Part 3 focuses on economic instruments, packing policies, virgin material taxes and unit pricing. Part 4 includes papers on public participation, waste facility siting, the Basel Convention and papers on waste policy and legislation in the US, UK, The Netherlands and Tanzania.

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Acknowledgements
Waste Management: Technology, Economics and Policy
Municipal Solid Waste: A Prediction Methodology for the Generation Rate and Composition in the European Union Countries and the United States of America	p. 3
Sorting and Recycling of Domestic Waste. Review of Occupational Health Problems and their Possible Causes	p. 15
Does Municipal Solid Waste Composting Make Economic Sense?	p. 39
Sustainable Landfill - Possibility or Pipe-dream?	p. 48
Analysis of Residential Solid Waste at Generation Sites	p. 57
Solid Waste Collection Systems in Developing Urban Areas of South Africa: An Overview and Case Study	p. 69
Recycling - An Environmentally Friendly and Income Generating Activity Towards Sustainable Solid Waste Management. Case Study - Dar es Salaam City, Tanzania	p. 87
Solid Waste Management in India: Options and Opportunities	p. 98
Local Management of Hazardous Wastes from Small-Scale and Cottage Industries	p. 116
Questioning the Waste Hierarchy: The Case of a Region with a Low Population Density	p. 137
Development of a Decision Support System for Municipal Solid Waste Management Systems Planning	p. 155
Municipal Solid Waste Management: An Economic Perspective	p. 171
Solid Waste Treatment Within the Framework of Life-Cycle Assessment	p. 191
A Lifecycle Assessment and Economic Valuation of Recycling	p. 202
Assessing a Kerbside Recycling Scheme: A Quantitative and Willingness to Pay Case Study	p. 218
Estimating Lost Amenity Due to Landfill Waste Disposal	p. 234
A Systems Approach to Materials Flow in Sustainable Cities: A Case Study of Paper	p. 247
The Evaluation of Waste Management Options	p. 266
Cost-Benefit Analysis of Resource Material Recycling	p. 278
Quantifying Externalities in Solid Waste Management in Hong Kong	p. 288
Green Taxes, Waste Management and Political Economy	p. 299
Unit Pricing of Residential Municipal Solid Waste: Lessons from Nine Case Study Communities	p. 315
Taxing Virgin Materials: An Approach to Waste Problems	p. 330
The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste	p. 345
Life-Cycle Management and Economic Instruments	p. 368
Competition, Sustainability and Packaging Policy in the UK	p. 374
The Structure of the Dutch Waste Sector and Impediments for Waste Reduction	p. 397
Making Waste Work: Making UK National Solid Waste Strategy Work at the Local Scale	p. 415
Integrated Waste Management Planning and Decision-Making in New York City	p. 442
The Governance of Waste Management in Urban Tanzania: Towards a Community Based Approach	p. 459
Controversial Cleanup: Superfund and the Implementation of U.S. Hazardous Waste Policy	p. 473
Industrial Recycling and the Basel Convention	p. 489
Compensation for Risks: Host Community Benefits in Siting Locally Unwanted Facilities	p. 514
Analytical Framework for Waste-Facility Siting	p. 526
The Public-Expert Interface in Local Waste Management Decisions: Expertise, Credibility and Process	p. 557
Name Index	p. 581
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