Title & Author:

Solid waste management : critical issues for developing countries / edited by Elizabeth Thomas-Hope.

Publication:

Kingston, Jamaica : Canoe Press, University of the West Indies, ©1998.

Description:

x, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm

Notes:
"Based on papers originally presented at the First International Conference on Solid Waste Management, Kingston, Jamaica, September 1995"--Page vii
"Based on papers originally presented at the First International Conference on Solid Waste Management, Kingston, Jamaica, September 1995"--P. vii.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Waste management problems in developing countries / Geoffrey Blight and Chuma Mbande -- The community as a resource for solid waste management / Mark Figueroa -- Solid waste: its implications for health / Milton Pinnock -- The pollution potential for waste: a comparison of poor and wealthy communities in South Africa / Jonathan Shamrock -- Heavy metal contamination of a wetland area in east Trinidad / Isaac Bekele et al. -- Solid waste management and environmental education in the school curriculum / Marceline Collins-Figueroa -- An overview of solid waste management in Barbados / Jeffery Headley -- Solid waste management: regulations and related policy issues in Jamaica / Mearle Barrett -- The management of solid waste in Botswana / Geoffrey Blight -- Solid waste management and its environmental impact in Kenya / Gladys Mungai -- The effect of the method of household containment on solid waste management / Ian Gage -- Options for solid waste management in the agroprocessing industry / Velva Lawrence -- The reception and disposal of ship-borne waste: legal and administrative issues / Ludlow Stewart -- The environmental impact of incineration on island nations / Clyde Lettsome -- Landfills: the new generation / Alejandro Gonzalez -- A screening process for the evaluation of sanitary landfill sites in Jamaica / Basil Fernandez -- Landfill siting and design / Walling Whittaker -- Riverton City dump: evaluation of a Jamaican landfill site / Earl D. Wright -- Remedial strategies for the Riverton City landfill / Robert B. Garner, Steven M. Hamilton and Larry E. Ruiz -- An environmentally sustainable waste management strategy for the Caribbean in light of Canada's experience / G. Steve Hart -- An integrated approach to sustainable solid waste management / Shannon Clagget, Stewart Hattie and Keith Watson.

Summary:

"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

Resources:
Donor bookplate

ISBN:

9768125438
9789768125439

Subject:

Refuse and refuse disposal Developing countries Congresses.
Factory and trade waste Environmental aspects Developing countries Congresses.
Sanitary landfills Environmental aspects Developing countries Congresses.
Pollution Developing countries Congresses.
Factory and trade waste Environmental aspects
Pollution
Refuse and refuse disposal
Sanitary landfills Environmental aspects
Refuse and refuse disposal Environmental aspects Developing countries Congresses.
Developing countries
Solid waste management

Form/genre:

Conference publications.
Conference papers and proceedings

Added entries:

Thomas-Hope, Elizabeth M.
Jeanne Wolfe Collection
International Conference on Solid Waste Management (1995- ) (1st : 1995 : Kingston, Jamaica)
International Conference on Solid Waste Management (1995- )

Holdings:

Location: Library main 269297
Call No.: BIB 201462
Status: Available