![]() | Economic Models and Applications of Solid Waste Management Subjects: Economics Finance Business & Industry; Engineering & Technology; Engineering Economics; Mathematics & Statistics for Engineers; Economics; Industry & Industrial Studies; Civil Environmental and Geotechnical Engineering; Industrial Engineering & Manufacturing; Industrial Economics; Econometrics; Energy Industries & Utilities; Waste & Recycling; Operations Research; Originally published in 1991. The dilemma of solid and hazardous waste disposal in an environmentally safe manner has become a global problem. This book presents a modern approach to economic and operations research modelling in urban and regional waste management with an international perspective. Location and space economics are discussed along with transportation, technology, health hazards, capacity levels, political realities and the linkage with general global economic systems. The algorithms and models developed are then applied to two major cities in the world by way of case study example of the use of these systems. |
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