3D Digital City Platforms as Collaborative and Decision-Making Tools for Small Municipalities and Rural Areas

2012 ◽  
pp. 99-113
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Maclennan ◽  
Susan J. Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Facilities Planning ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Sustainable Planning

This chapter explores how the development and implementation of a 3D digital city platform can be utilized in the context of solid waste management and sustainable planning in a small municipality or largely rural areas with limited resources. By leveraging 3D visualization and Web 2.0 functionality to allow stakeholders to collaborate on equal footing, digital city platforms can help with day-to-day management of solid waste assets and facilities, planning for solid waste and recycling facilities and drop-offs, mapping and planning efficient waste hauler routes, and identifying issues such as underserved populations and illegal dumping.

3D Digital City Platforms as Collaborative and Decision-Making Tools for Small Municipalities and Rural Areas

2013 ◽  
pp. 537-550 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara L. Maclennan ◽  
Susan J. Bergeron
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Underserved Populations ◽  
3D Visualization ◽  
Digital City ◽  
Facilities Planning ◽  
Equal Footing ◽  
Sustainable Planning

This chapter explores how the development and implementation of a 3D digital city platform can be utilized in the context of solid waste management and sustainable planning in a small municipality or largely rural areas with limited resources. By leveraging 3D visualization and Web 2.0 functionality to allow stakeholders to collaborate on equal footing, digital city platforms can help with day-to-day management of solid waste assets and facilities, planning for solid waste and recycling facilities and drop-offs, mapping and planning efficient waste hauler routes, and identifying issues such as underserved populations and illegal dumping.

Solid Waste Disposal in Rural Areas: Economic Implications

1977 ◽  
Vol 9 (2) ◽  
pp. 49-55
Author(s):  
Harry W. Ayer ◽  
David W. Hogan
Keyword(s):  
Solid Waste ◽  
Waste Disposal ◽  
Environmental Protection Agency ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
State Legislatures ◽  
The United States ◽  
Solid Waste Disposal ◽  
Economic Implications

Solid waste disposal is a significant problem. It has been estimated that almost a ton of solid waste is collected per year per capita in the United States. Solid waste disposal, especially in rural areas, is frequently done in an unsanitary, potentially dangerous and often unslightly manner. To cope with these solid waste problems, both state legislatures and the Environmental Protection Agency are now in the process of requiring communities which presently utilize unsanitary disposal practices to upgrade their facilities and management practices. A sanitary landfill operation1 is usually the least-cost method of accomplishing these requirements, especially in rural areas.2 Quality facilities and management practices are not costless, however. It is estimated that the U.S. spends more than $4.5 billion each year on solid waste management, and more than 80 percent of this amount is for collection.

scholarly journals A Hybrid Methodology to Study Stakeholder Cooperation in Circular Economy Waste Management of Cities

Energies ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (7) ◽  
pp. 1845
Author(s):  
P. Giovani Palafox-Alcantar ◽  
Dexter V. L. Hunt ◽  
Chris D. F. Rogers
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Circular Economy ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Preference Order ◽  
Municipal Solid Waste Management ◽  
Theory Approach ◽  
The Uk

Successful transitioning to a circular economy city requires a holistic and inclusive approach that involves bringing together diverse actors and disciplines who may not have shared aims and objectives. It is desirable that stakeholders work together to create jointly-held perceptions of value, and yet cooperation in such an environment is likely to prove difficult in practice. The contribution of this paper is to show how collaboration can be engendered, or discord made transparent, in resource decision-making using a hybrid Game Theory approach that combines its inherent strengths with those of scenario analysis and multi-criteria decision analysis. Such a methodology consists of six steps: (1) define stakeholders and objectives; (2) construct future scenarios for Municipal Solid Waste Management; (3) survey stakeholders to rank the evaluation indicators; (4) determine the weights for the scenarios criteria; (5) reveal the preference order of the scenarios; and (6) analyse the preferences to reveal the cooperation and competitive opportunities. To demonstrate the workability of the method, a case study is presented: The Tyseley Energy Park, a major Energy-from-Waste facility that treats over two-thirds of the Municipal Solid Waste of Birmingham in the UK. The first phase of its decision-making involved working with the five most influential actors, resulting in recommendations on how to reach the most preferred and jointly chosen sustainable scenario for the site. The paper suggests a supporting decision-making tool so that cooperation is embedded in circular economy adoption and decisions are made optimally (as a collective) and are acceptable to all the stakeholders, although limited by bounded rationality.

Solid Waste Management for Rural Areas: Analysis of Costs and Service Requirements

1973 ◽  
Vol 55 (4_Part_1) ◽  
pp. 567-576 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dean Schreiner ◽  
George Muncrief ◽  
Bob Davis
Keyword(s):  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Rural Areas ◽  
Solid Waste Management

scholarly journals Assessment of maturity of reverse logistics as a strategy to sustainable solid waste management

2020 ◽  
Vol 38 (1_suppl) ◽  
pp. 65-76 ◽  
Author(s):  
Claudia C Peña-Montoya ◽  
Marina Bouzon ◽  
Patricia Torres-Lozada ◽  
Carlos Julio Vidal-Holguin
Keyword(s):  
Decision Making ◽  
Waste Management ◽  
Solid Waste ◽  
Reverse Logistics ◽  
Solid Waste Management ◽  
Decision Making Process ◽  
Maturity Model ◽  
Maturity Models ◽  
Production Processes ◽  
Holistic Vision

Small- and medium-sized enterprises primarily focus on their operations and rarely pay attention to issues related to sustainable solid waste management that originate from their production processes. A suitable strategy to support sustainable solid waste management is reverse logistics. Through the use of maturity models, it is possible to determine the grade to which small- and medium-sized enterprises are prepared to perform this strategy. This study proposes an adapted maturity model to measure maturity levels of reverse logistics aspects at small- and medium-sized enterprises in regions from Colombia in order to contribute to sustainable solid waste management. The maturity model was applied to seven small- and medium-sized enterprises in the plastics sector in the central and southern regions of Colombia by adapting a maturity model that was previously correlated to suggested drivers and barriers in this sector. Results show that maturity levels range from naïve to immature owing to the incipient development of reverse logistics in Colombia. Therefore, it is necessary to establish a holistic vision of the organisation to improve the reverse logistics decision-making process to achieve sustainable solid waste management.

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