Overview
- Takes both a top-down and a bottom-up approach to waste-to-energy implementation
- Analysizes best and worst case scenarios
- Includes a theoretical, systemic approach to waste management
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Green Energy and Technology (GREEN)
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Solid waste management is currently a major issue worldwide with numerous areas reaching critical levels. Many developing countries and countries in transition still miss basic waste management infrastructure and awareness. It is here that many of the solid waste management problems and challenges are currently being faced. As such, waste-to-energy (WTE) consists of a proven and continuously developing spectrum and range of technologies in a number of (mostly) developed countries. However, it’s integration in developing countries and systems in transition is often faced with scepticism and a complex set of barriers which are quite unique and differ greatly from those where WTE has been validated and applied over the years. Waste-to-Energy: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition Economies will address this issue both theoretically and using concrete examples, including:
· contributions from numerous scholars and practitioners in the field,
· useful lessons and rules of thumb,
· both successful and failed cases, and
· real-life examples and developments.
Waste-to-Energy approaches this dynamic aspect of environmental engineering and management in a methodical and detailed manner making it an important resource for SWM planners and facility operators as well as undergraduate and post graduate students and researchers.
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Front Matter
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Waste to Energy
Book Subtitle: Opportunities and Challenges for Developing and Transition Economies
Editors: Avraam Karagiannidis
Series Title: Green Energy and Technology
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2306-4
Publisher: Springer London
eBook Packages: Engineering, Engineering (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag London Limited 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-2305-7Published: 05 January 2012
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4471-6103-5Published: 22 February 2014
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4471-2306-4Published: 05 January 2012
Series ISSN: 1865-3529
Series E-ISSN: 1865-3537
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: VIII, 372
Topics: Renewable and Green Energy, Waste Management/Waste Technology, Sustainable Development, Energy Policy, Economics and Management, Renewable and Green Energy