| 书目名称 | Garbage Crisis | | 副标题 | A Global Challenge f | | 编辑 | Randika Jayasinghe,Usman Mushtaq,Caroline Baillie | | 视频video | | | 丛书名称 | Synthesis Lectures on Engineers, Technology, & Society | | 图书封面 |  | | 描述 | This book will focus on "Waste Management," a serious global issue and engineers‘ responsibility towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization, industrialization, and rapid economic development. However, low-income and marginalized sectors in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management. Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact, socio-economic, cultural, institutional, legal, and political aspects are fundamental in planning, designing, and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country. Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders, waste system elements, and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts to ass | | 出版日期 | Book 2013 | | 版次 | 1 | | doi | https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-02111-4 | | isbn_softcover | 978-3-031-00983-9 | | isbn_ebook | 978-3-031-02111-4Series ISSN 1933-3633 Series E-ISSN 1933-3641 | | issn_series | 1933-3633 | | copyright | Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2013 |
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