scholarly journals GEOGRAPHY OF WASTE AS A NEW APPROACH IN WASTE MANAGEMENT STUDY

2016 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Current Literature ◽  
Temporal Variability ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Consumer Society ◽  
International Policy ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Municipal Waste Management ◽  
The One ◽  
Economic Studies

Abstract. Municipal waste management in the last two decades has become aglobal environmental priority in the context of increasing amounts of wastegenerated due to the development of a mass consumer society. Various issuesof waste management , territorial and temporal variability, spatialanalysis of treatment or disposal facilities, systemic implications on theenvironment, the harmonization of international policy at national,regional and local level are solid arguments forstudying this field by geography. Mostly technical or economic studies,lacking a vision of territory are supplemented in the conceptual andmethodological level by geographers. This paper performed on the one hand,an overview of various approaches in current literature on waste managementissue and onanother hand analyses the geographical contributions in this field. Ourconclusions lead to the idea that waste management must be performedaccording to the geographical features of the territory concerned.

scholarly journals Struktury terytorialne państwa – w poszukiwaniu optymalnych rozwiązań

2012 ◽  
pp. 129-152
Author(s):  
Marcin Sakowicz
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Local Governments ◽  
Local Level ◽  
New Approach ◽  
Federal States ◽  
Territorial Structure ◽  
Territorial Organization ◽  
The One ◽  
Political Economic ◽  
European Union Member States

The article presents changes in the territorial structure, especially in the local governments, that have taken place in selected countries of European Union in the last 20 years. Changes on the local level and adjustments on the regional level as experienced by unitary states (Scandinavian and Baltic states), federal states (Belgium), states with regional autonomy (Spain) and states that underwent devolution (United Kingdom) are presented. The territorial organization of European Union member states reflects differences in governing and managing structures adjusted to the characteristics of each state. The undertaken reforms relate on the one hand to political, economic and civilizational conditions, and on the other hand to brand new approach to fulfillment of the tasks of public administration (both governmental and self governmental) that would be the most effective, efficient and satisfying the needs of citizens. In many countries, particularly Scandinavian, reforms have been implemented aiming at decreasing of the number of communes.

scholarly journals Public-private partnership as a possibility for improving municipal waste management

Spatium ◽  
2019 ◽  
pp. 41-48
Author(s):  
Djordje Jovanovic ◽  
Tatjana Zivkovic
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Management System ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Plan ◽  
Public Private Partnership ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Private Partnership ◽  
Waste Management System ◽  
Municipal Waste Management ◽  
High Concentrations

A consequence of the high concentrations of the population in big cities is the growth in the amount of municipal waste generated. This has resulted in an accelerating need for developing as efficient a municipal waste management system as possible on a local level, based on legal requirements and the rules of good conduct within this field. The city of Belgrade is used as a case study for analyzing the existing problem of waste management (based on the Waste Management Plan), system elements and operational performances (special waste disposal), and the possibilities for improving the system by contemporary technical and managerial solutions. This is especially analyzed on the basis of provisions and obligations stipulated in the recently signed PPP contract on public-private partnership (PPP). In this paper, the author discusses possible comprehensive improvements of the municipal waste management system based on the obligations of the signatories of the said contract.

scholarly journals Rural waste management at global level (Introductory chapter)

2017 ◽  
Author(s):  
Florin Constantin MIHAI
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Rural Solid Waste ◽  
Cost Efficient ◽  
Waste Management Practices ◽  
The One

This chapter intends to draw attention to solid waste management sector toward rural areaswhere bad practices and public health threats could be avoided through traditional and integratedwaste management routes. The expansion of waste collection services across ruralmunicipalities should be a priority for many countries. Agricultural and municipal wastediversion from wild dumps and open burning practices must be avoided through smart solutionsat the local level which are cost-efficient particularly in developing countries. The bookfurther examines, on the one hand, the main challenges in the development of reliable waste management practices across rural regions and, on the other hand, the concrete solutions andthe new opportunities across the world in dealing with rural solid waste.

MUNICIPAL WASTE MANAGEMENT STRATEGIES, STRATEGIC ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AND THE CONSIDERATION OF CLIMATE CHANGE IN ENGLAND

2011 ◽  
Vol 13 (04) ◽  
pp. 541-565 ◽  
Author(s):  
THOMAS B. FISCHER ◽  
KAREN POTTER ◽  
STUART DONALDSON ◽  
TONY SCOTT
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Climate Change Mitigation ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Management Strategies ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Municipal Waste Management ◽  
Management Hierarchy ◽  
Change Mitigation

Municipal waste management strategies (MWMSs) are local level policy instruments, prepared in an area wide manner all over England, aiming to achieve more sustainable waste management practices. Their focus is on different aspects of the waste management hierarchy, including waste reduction, reuse, recycling/composting and residual waste management. In this paper, a systematic review of MWMS strategic environmental assessments (SEAs), completed by February 2010 is provided. SEA report quality and the extent to which climate change mitigation is considered are evaluated. Whilst there are strengths of current practice, there is also scope for improvement, particularly regarding a more effective consideration of the waste management hierarchy. Furthermore, whilst climate change mitigation is routinely considered as an overall objective, none of the SEAs set related targets, for example regarding carbon emission reduction.

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

2017 ◽  
Vol 32 (3) ◽  
Author(s):  
Nachalida Yukalang ◽  
Beverley Dawn Clarke ◽  
Kirstin Elizabeth Ross
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Waste Recycling ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Rapid Urbanization ◽  
Municipal Waste Management ◽  
Surrounding Areas

AbstractDue to rapid urbanization, solid waste management (SWM) has become a significant issue in several developing countries including Thailand. Policies implemented by the Central Thai Government to manage SWM issues have had only limited success. This article reviews current municipal waste management plans in Thailand and examines municipal waste management at the local level, with focus on the Tha Khon Yang sub-district surrounding Mahasarakham University in Mahasarakham Province. Within two decades this area has been converted from a rural to an urban landscape featuring accommodation for over 45,000 university students and a range of business facilities. This development and influx of people has outpaced the government’s ability to manage municipal solid waste (MSW). There are significant opportunities to improve local infrastructure and operational capacity; but there are few mechanisms to provide and distribute information to improve community participation in waste management. Many community-based waste management projects, such as waste recycling banks, the 3Rs (reduce, reuse and recycle), and waste-to-biogas projects have been abandoned. Additionally, waste from Tha Kon Yang and its surrounding areas has been transferred to unsanitary landfills; there is also haphazard dumping and uncontrolled burning of waste, which exacerbate current pollution issues.

Do You Want to See the Tree? Ignore the Forest

2014 ◽  
Vol 61 (3) ◽  
pp. 205-214 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nicolas Poirel ◽  
Claire Sara Krakowski ◽  
Sabrina Sayah ◽  
Arlette Pineau ◽  
Olivier Houdé ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Visual Recognition ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Local Information ◽  
Visual Environment ◽  
Global Information ◽  
Focus Attention ◽  
Global Level ◽  
Hierarchical Stimuli ◽  
Priming Paradigm ◽  
The One

The visual environment consists of global structures (e.g., a forest) made up of local parts (e.g., trees). When compound stimuli are presented (e.g., large global letters composed of arrangements of small local letters), the global unattended information slows responses to local targets. Using a negative priming paradigm, we investigated whether inhibition is required to process hierarchical stimuli when information at the local level is in conflict with the one at the global level. The results show that when local and global information is in conflict, global information must be inhibited to process local information, but that the reverse is not true. This finding has potential direct implications for brain models of visual recognition, by suggesting that when local information is conflicting with global information, inhibitory control reduces feedback activity from global information (e.g., inhibits the forest) which allows the visual system to process local information (e.g., to focus attention on a particular tree).

Aspects of the Evolution of the Romanian Tourists’ Preferences Concerning the Domestic Tourist Destinations

2019 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 21-28
Author(s):  
Aniela Bălăcescu ◽  
Radu Șerban Zaharia
Keyword(s):  
Logistic Model ◽  
Local Level ◽  
Medium Term ◽  
Tourist Destinations ◽  
Tourism Management ◽  
Production And Consumption ◽  
On Line ◽  
The One ◽  
Long Term Studies

Abstract Tourist services represent a category of services in which the inseparability of production and consumption, the inability to be storable, the immateriality, and last but not least non-durability, induces in tourism management a number of peculiarities and difficulties. Under these circumstances the development of medium-term strategies involves long-term studies regarding on the one hand the developments and characteristics of the demand, and on the other hand the tourist potential analysis at regional and local level. Although in the past 20 years there has been tremendous growth of on-line booking made by household users, the tour operators agencies as well as those with sales activity continue to offer the specific services for a large number of tourists, that number, in the case of domestic tourism, increased by 1.6 times in case of the tour operators and by 4.44 times in case of the agencies with sales activity. At the same time, there have been changes in the preferences of tourists regarding their holiday destinations in Romania. Started on these considerations, paper based on a logistic model, examines the evolution of the probabilities and scores corresponding to the way the Romanian tourists spend their holidays on the types of tourism agencies, actions and tourist areas in Romania.

scholarly journals Situation, Challenges, and Solutions of Policy Implementation on Municipal Waste Management in Vietnam toward Sustainability

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (6) ◽  
pp. 3517
Author(s):  
Lien Thi Kim Trinh ◽  
Allen H. Hu ◽  
Song Toan Pham Phu
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Policy Implementation ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Waste ◽  
Management Policy ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Waste Management ◽  
Waste Management Policy

Municipal solid waste management is an environmental issue that has received considerable attention from researchers and environmental managers for decades. Supporting the management programs entail policies and regulations related to municipal solid waste. In developed countries, the implementation of environmental policies plays an important role and has a substantial impact on the effectiveness of solid waste management. However, in many developing countries such as Vietnam, the situation and effectiveness of the policy implementation have not been studied extensively. This investigation is conducted to ascertain the situation, limitations, and challenges in implementing solid waste management policy in Vietnam. Then, solutions for the problems and improvements for implementation efficiency are presented. This work used online questionnaires to survey environmental managers in different localities and applied qualitative research method to analyze data. The results show that not all national policies on solid waste management are implemented in all localities. Waste separation is also the foremost concern in municipal waste management in most localities of Vietnam. Most of the localities claimed that the unrealistic nature and difficult implementation of the policies and the lack of needed resources are the main limitations and challenges in Vietnam. Survey results also revealed that different localities in Vietnam have different solutions to increase policy implementation efficiency. Besides, the study also found similarities in the implementation of policies in solid waste management between Vietnam and some other countries and also gathered some valuable lessons for the improvement strategy. Finally, the implementation of an effective domestic solid waste management policy is an important platform for improving environmental quality and ensuring the sustainable development of the nation and mankind.

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