Sustainable Solid Waste Management

1. Auflage 2012
ISBN: 978-1-926895-24-6
Verlag: Apple Academic Press Inc.

Buch, Englisch, 180 Seiten, Format (B × H): 162 mm x 239 mm, Gewicht: 402 g

This book compiles many different treatment options and best practices for the treatment and recycling of municipal solid waste from all over the globe, factoring in cost-effectiveness, sanitation, and environmental degradation. Important to professors, researchers, students, policymakers, and municipal offices, this informed book looks into innovative waste management systems from a number of developing countries, which may prove useful to developed countries of the world as well.

Zielgruppe

Academic and Postgraduate

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unnisa, Syeda Azeem

Rav, S. Bhupatthi

Fachgebiete

• Technische Wissenschaften Technik Allgemein Nachhaltigkeit, Grüne Technologien
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Abfallwirtschaft, Abfallentsorgung
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Entsorgungswirtschaft

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction. Comparative Study of Municipal Solid Waste Treatment Technologies Using Life Cycle Assessment Method. Solid Waste Management in a Mexican University Using a Community-Based Social Marketing Approach. Taking Out the Trash (and the Recyclables): RDIF and the Handling of Municipal Solid Waste. Management of Municipal Solid Waste by Vermicompost: A Case Study of Eluru. Waste Management Program at the Universidad Tecnologica de Leon. Solid Waste Management by Application of the WAMED Model. A Model for Solid Waste Management in Anambra State, Nigeria. Optimizing Urban Material Flows and Waste Streams in Urban Development Through Principles of Zero Waste and Sustainable Consumption. Integrated Solid Waste Management Based on the 3R Approach. Assessment of Status of MSWM in Kamareddy Municipal Council.

Über Autor(innen)

Dr. Syeda Azeem Unnisa received her PhD in Environmental Science and Technology from the Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in India. She is currently the Research Officer (Environmental Science) at the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies at Osmania University, Hyderabad, India. She was recognized as Young Scientist for designing low-cost water purification technology for rural people. Past positions include Lecturer at that university as well as a Project Officer with the Environment Education Wing of the Andhra Pradesh Pollution Control Board and as Chemist with the Kingfisher Mineral Water Company. She has completed several R&D projects on water purification and solid waste management. She is member in international and national environmental sssociations. In addition, she has published 40 research papers in international publications, presented at conferences and seminars, conducted workshops and training programs, and authored several textbooks.

Professor S. Bhupatthi Rav is currently Director of the Regional Centre for Urban and Environmental Studies at Osmania University, India, as well as a Professor in the Department of Public Administration, also at Osmania University. He has 32 years of experience in the field of teaching as a lecturer, reader, and professor. He was recognized as Best Teacher by Government of Andhra Pradesh. He has contributed to seven books and has written 61 articles on various issues of society building through people’s participation and clean administration. He has completed several R&D projects on urban poverty and health. He has supervised 35 PhD and 40 MPhil students. He has organized and actively contributed to various symposiums, seminars, and conferences.