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WASTE policy is to make their knowledge and expertise freely available for those who are interested. This has resulted in a large number of publications. Books, Working Documents, Case studies and other papers and reports are listed below. Most of the documents can be downloaded. Hard copies can be ordered on a basis of cost recovery.
N.B. The website is still being filled. For a whole list of available titles please download the publication list
A Bird in the Hand Romania, Bulgaria, and other EU countries face strong pressure to modernise public infrastructure. Solid waste management is an area of infrastructure which is visible, has strong symbolic and affective impacts, and is often a necessary but not a sufficient condition for attracting investments in commercial, industrial, and housing sectors. It is also a kind of report card on the competence of local, regional and national authorities.
Read more or download A Bird in the Hand.pdf (204 kB)
Alianzas Comunitarias en la Gestión Integrada y Sostenible de Residuos Alianzas Comunitarias en la Gestión Integrada y Sostenible de Residuos focalize en los diferentes roles que pueden jugar los grupos comunitarios en la gestión de los residuos urbanos. Presta atención expecífica a la manera en la cual estos actores contibuyen a la sostenibilidad de sus sisemas de gestión de resiuos en las ciudades.
Read more or download tools_compart_esp ebook.pdf (548 kB)
Alliances in Urban Waste Management A process analysis for indicators and contributions to sustainable development in SWM
UWEP Working Document 14
Analysing Urban Solid Waste in Developing Countries: a Perspective on Bangalore, India
Analysing Urban Solid Waste in Developing Countries: a Perspective on Bangalore, India
This document is publishec by CREED. The programme of Collaborative Research in the Economics of Environment and Development
(CREED) was established in 1993 as a joint initiative of the International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), London, and the Institute for Environmental Studies (IVM), Amsterdam.
The Secretariat for CREED is based at IIED in London. A Steering Committee is responsible for overall management and coordination of the CREED Programme.
Read more or download creed24e.pdf (123 kB)
Assessing the Sustainability of Waste Management Using the Concept of ISWM This paper presents the concept of Integrated Sustainable Waste Management (ISWM) in the context of assessing the sustainability of waste management alliances. ISWM differs from conventional approaches towards waste management by seeking stakeholder participation, by including waste prevention and resource recovery explicitly, by encouraging the analysis of interactions with other urban systems and by promoting an integration of different habitat scales (city, neighbourhood, household).
Read more or download Mapet 1992 ebook.pdf (1,022 kB)
CBO based Waste Collection and SME Development in Waste Recycling in Dar Es Salaam Full title: Community Based Waste Collection and Small Scale Enterprise Development in Waste Recycling in Dar Es Salaam, A technical advisory report
Ths report is a documentation of the assessment of the waste situation in Dar es Salaam. Special attention is given to the waste collection, and the waste flow of four waste fractions: paper, plastic, metal and organic waste. Also the transport problems of these different fractions were looked at
Read more or download sme-dsm ebook.pdf (1.25 MB)
Citizen Involvement in CleanUp Activities in Bamako Lessons from an Action Research Project in Commune IVUWEP Working Document 13
This report documents an action research project carried out in Commune IV, Bamako, Mali to deal with a lack of participation of low income inhabitants in waste management. It outlines the methodology used to conduct the research and presents its results and conclusions.
Read more or download WD13_eng.pdf (1.28 MB)
City and Countryside in the Red River Delta, Notes on Hanoi's recycling Industry UWEP Occasional Paper
Read more or download OP_viet.pdf (263 kB)
Closing the Circle Bringing Integrated Sustainable Waste Managment Home
A book for practitioners in the field of waste management in developing countries. A reference that combines theory and practice.
Collecte des Ordures Ménagères à Bamako
Case-Study Report
Community Participation in Urban Solid Waste Management
ENDA / WASTE co-publication
Read more or download CS_cp_mal.pdf (254 kB)
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