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1. Urban Solid Waste Management in Mumbai Current challenges and future solutions for Urban Development : Minor Field Study
University essay from KTH/Industriell ekologiAbstract : This study was conducted as a bachelor thesis at KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm in the spring of 2016. The study was carried out as a Minor Field Study (MFS) funded by the Swedish public authority Sida - Swedish International Development Cooperation Agency. READ MORE
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2. Feasibility Study of Implementing Vafab Municipal Solid Waste Management to Wuhan, China
University essay from Uppsala universitet/Institutionen för geovetenskaperAbstract : This thesis aims at providing comprehensive descriptions of Vafab and Wuhan household waste management systems and comparing the two systems for the purpose of better understanding over the similarities and differences between these two cases. Literature study, semi-structured interviews and field studies have been applied as methods to describe both Vafab and Wuhan municipal solid waste management (“MSWM”) from the past to the future. READ MORE
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3. Urban Development on Municipal Solid Waste Management in Dhaka, Bangladesh
University essay from KTH/Urbana och regionala studierAbstract : Urban environment is a major global concern especially where the pollution isincreasing due to rapid growth of population along with less development of physicalinfrastructure. Municipal solid waste management (SWM) is now being considered asone of the most immediate and serious environmental issue for rapid increasing anddensely populated cities of least developing countries, unfortunately a large portion ofurban areas has no service for solid waste disposal. READ MORE
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4. Investment in Enhanced Landfill Mining (ELFM): a real option approach : a case study of Koshe/Repi landfill site (Ethiopia)
University essay from SLU/Dept. of EconomicsAbstract : The marginal socio-economic condition of many people, lack of cooperative culture and cultural aversion towards waste, absence of well-defined enforcement mechanism to effectively coerce the population, restricted public service funding, high rate of population growth and the resulting ever increasing waste production are some of the major challenges faced by most developing countries, including Ethiopia, in an effort to implement effective and efficient municipal solid waste management (MSWM). Koshe/Repi, an old landfill in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, is considered to be a huge opportunity in terms of material recovery and energy production. READ MORE
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5. SWOT analysis for the improvement of Municipal Solid Waste Management Planning : A Case Study of Iribarren Municipality, Venezuela
University essay from Lunds universitet/Internationella miljöinstitutetAbstract : This study presents the formulation of planning guidelines to apply by the responsible entity for municipal solid waste management (IMAUBAR) in Iribarren Municipality, Venezuela, with the aim of complying with the recent legislative instrument passed in December 2010, the Law of Integrated Management of Garbage. An overview of the Latin American Region solid waste management planning documents was carried out to determine the trends in the waste management approaches, as well as a brief examination was perfomed about the national existing conditions of SWM and its legislative framework in Venezuela. READ MORE
