The academic literature on urban policy and planning which explicitly links to neo-liberalism
is huge. The paper systematises much of this literature from the period 1990 to 2010, with an …

Poor sanitation in urban slums results in increased prevalence of diseases and pollution of
the environment. Excreta, grey water and solid wastes are the major contributors to the …

Providing good solid waste management (SWM) services while also ensuring financial
sustainability of the system continues to be a major challenge in cities of developing …

This paper examines municipal solid waste management in Uganda under the
decentralisation policy. The aim is to analyse devolved solid waste management and the …

After years of conventional approaches to solid waste management (SWM), in 2009,
Bulawayo City Council adopted a non-conventional approach in the form of community …

This paper aims to benchmark performance of combined solid waste management (SWM)
and recycling systems in major cities of East Africa. The Wasteaware indicators are used to …

The aim of this paper is to describe the optimisation of Waste Minimisation/Zero Waste
strategies into an already established integrated waste management system and to present …

The amount of greenhouse gases (GHG) emitted due to waste management in the cities of
developing countries is predicted to rise considerably in the near future; however, these …

This study deals with generation, composition, collection, transportation, and disposal, as
well as the present cost of the waste management on the basis of 60% collection of the total …

Previously perceived as a local, technical issue for governments, waste management is now
also a global, socio-political process involving complex patterns of multi-level governance …