Challenges for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Lessons from Thailand (SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development) - Softcover

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Pharino, Chanathip

 
9789811046292: Challenges for Sustainable Solid Waste Management: Lessons from Thailand (SpringerBriefs on Case Studies of Sustainable Development)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 9811046298 ISBN 13: 9789811046292
Verlag: Springer, 2017

Inhaltsangabe

This book analyzes the status quo concerning waste generation and management systems in Thailand and other developing countries with similar problems. It addresses municipal, electronic, industrial and hazardous wastes, as well as management instruments, and key factors shaping the progress of waste management as a whole. The book highlights lessons learnt from various successful efforts to overcome these problems in Thailand, and offers recommendations for promoting sustainable waste management systems in Thailand and other countries with similar backgrounds in the future. These include the introduction of a polluter-pay concept, incentive systems for recycling and reusing, and promoting environmental education and awareness in key sectors.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Chanathip Pharino is an associate professor of Environmental Engineering at Faculty of Engineering, Chulalongkorn University, Bangkok, Thailand. She holds a PhD in Environmental Engineering from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Her research has focused on Environmental System Management, Low Carbon Energy Policy, GHG Assessment and Management, Life Cycle Assessment. Her research works focus on mass flow analysis of municipal wastes and infectious wastes in Bangkok, end-of-life management of electronic wastes, evaluation of air pollution intensity and abatement costs from power sector, carbon finance for improving solid waste management efficiency. She is the author of Sustainable Water Quality Management Policy: The Role of Trading, The U.S. Experience (Springer),  and The Environment Food-Energy-Water Nexus (Chapter 4): Sustainability Challenges in the Agrofood Sector Book (John Wiley & Son)


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Verlag
Springer
Erscheinungsdatum
2017
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
9811046298
ISBN 13 
9789811046292
Einband
Tapa blanda
Auflage
1
Anzahl der Seiten
156
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