In our rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world’s cities. The struggle for achieving the Millennium Development Goals and related targets for water and...

Background of the publication is the realisation that solid waste management and good governance are two sides of the same coin. After the introduction of the ISWM framework the following themes are discussed:

This book is part of the series Integrated Sustainable Waste Management - A Set of Five Tools for Decision-makers - Experiences from the Urban Waste Expertise Programme (1995 - 2001)

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