Ebook: Modern solid waste management in practice: they city of Malmö experience

This book focuses on sustainable solid waste management in an urban context and gives an example of how a modern city can work with waste management for increased sustainability in close cooperation with the academy. The book describes challenges which the city is facing and presents a case on how these can be tackled based on several research and development projects performed in the City of Malmö over the last decade. In these projects, the city has worked as a test bed for new solutions, developed with and evaluated by the university. The projects and evaluations of the same have been devel.;Preface; Contents; Abstract; 1 Sustainable Waste Management in a Changing Environment; 1.1 ... The City of Malmö: Aiming to Become the World Leader in Sustainable Solid Waste Management; 1.2 ... Waste Management then and Now; 1.3 ... Factors to be Considered in Modern Municipal Waste Management Policy-Making; 1.3.1 Legislation and Objectives; 1.3.2 Demographic Trends, Attitudes, and Economy; 1.3.3 Potential for Conflicting Interests; References; 2 The City of Malmö as a Case Study; 2.1 ... From Industries to Knowledge Production; 2.2 ... Waste Management in Malmö; References.