How model-based systems analysis can be improved for waste management planning
| Autor: | Tomas Ekvall, Mattias Olofsson, Ola Eriksson |
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| Rok vydání: | 2004 |
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International research
Sweden Engineering Environmental Engineering Municipal solid waste Waste management business.industry International Cooperation Research Decision Making Developing country Environment Models Theoretical Pollution Task (project management) Refuse Disposal Systems analysis Urban waste Order (exchange) business Developing Countries |
| Zdroj: | Scopus-Elsevier |
| ISSN: | 0734-242X |
| Popis: | Waste management models have been developed worldwide since the late 1960s. The overall aim of the models is to assist decision makers who are facing a complex task in order to handle waste in a cost-efficient and environmentally sound way. International research publications regarding waste management models point out the major benefits to be their capacity to deal with complexity and uncertainty and of finding benefits of co-operation and handling different goals. Such models have been developed and used successfully in Swedish research projects since the beginning of the 1990s, but the current situation is that such models are rarely requested for waste management planning in the country. Based on case studies (with the waste management models MIMES/Waste and ORWARE) in the Swedish municipality of Jönköping and a follow-up study, the paper discusses and draws conclusions on how to improve and increase the use of models to better correspond to the needs of decision makers involved in waste management planning. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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