Solid Waste Management
Subtitle: Critical Issues  For Developing Countries
Contributors: Elizabeth Thomas (Editor)
Publisher: University Press of the West Indies
Published: August 8, 1998
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9789768125439
Subjects: American history; Waste treatment & disposal; Nature; Business / Economics / Finance; Nature/Ecology; Jamaica; General; Natural Resources
First sentence: Solid waste has become a major consequence of development and modernization, yet some of the greatest challenges to its management are felt most keenly in the developing countries.
Description: "This volume presents a collection of papers which, with perspectives from Africa and the Caribbean, raise critical issues in the management of solid waste. It is intended to offer a basis for discussion among the wide range of disciplines and sectors involved in solid waste management and suggest directions for future work in the theoretical and practical dimensions of the challenge with which developing countries are confronted"--Back cover.