PRIVATE SECTOR IN SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT : Sustainability in Service Provision

ISBN-13: 9783639115680 / Angielski / Miękka / 2009 / 352 str.

Salha Kassim

Opis

When people hear about environmental management, mostof them think of planting trees, monitoringendangered species, global warming issues oranalysing water quality. Indeed, environmentalmanagement has more than that. It includes factorssuch as consumption of resources, creation of wastesand knowledge of properly handling the systems. It isbelieved that cities only occupy about 2% of theworlds land, but there are major consumers ofresources and produce more wastes that return tonature in the form of pollution. Improper Solid Waste Management (SWM) is one aspectthat contributes to pollute the environment; hencecontribute in diseases and the death to the millionsof people. Cities in Africa are rapidly urbanising asa result have not been able to cope with the rapidincrease of solid wastes. To improve the situation;municipalities have engaged the private sector as apartner on SWM. This book therefore, provides skillsfor the sustainability of the private sector in SWM,sheds some light and exciting approach and should beespecially useful to professionals in environmentalmanagement, practitioners, governments, localauthorities, private sector and academicians.

O autorze

Salha Mohammed Kassim (Civil Engineer). Studied PhD in
Environmental Health & Sanitary Engineering - Loughborough
University, UK. She is a Lecturer at Dar es Salaam Institute of
Technology, Member of Institution of Engineers Tanzania.