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| Personal Name | Ruiz, Rex Ronter G. |
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| Resource Title | Integrated sustainability evaluation of current and prospective scenarios of solid waste management systems in flooded islands: a case study in Batasan Island, Tubigon, Bohol |
| Date Issued | 27 February 2023 |
| Abstract | Solid waste management is a core indicator of holistic and sustainable development in every thriving community. In small islands, this concept is more indispensable considering the fragile ecosystem and direct impacts of waste mismanagement to the environment and the society. Remarkably, only few research delves on solid waste management studies in islands and much more, about methods to measure the overall sustainability of solid waste management practices. This research quantitatively evaluates the holistic impacts of the current and three prospective solid waste management systems of an island community from 2023 to 2050 on three sustainability domains – environmental, economic, and social, by using analysis methods through life cycle assessment, life cycle costing, and social impact assessment. The VIKOR method is subsequently employed as a multi-criteria decision analysis approach to completely identify the most sustainable solid waste management pathway scenario. The integrated sustainability evaluation reveals that the investigated solid waste management systems have varying levels of impacts across the three domains of sustainability. The current open dump system has average economic demand and environmental implications but has high negative social impacts to the workers and local community. The fill-up material dump system has the highest economic sustainability with moderate social impacts and low environmental burdens. In contrast, the engineered landfill has high social acceptability and community preference but bears significant operating economic requirements and the highest environmental life cycle impacts compared to the other systems. Conversely, the offsite transportation of wastes to the mainland residual containment area has high development costs but banners it low environmental burdens and social reverberations. Ultimately, considering no major preferences on specific sustainability domains, the prospective scenarios of offsite waste transp |
| Degree Course | MS Environmental Engineering |
| Language | English |
| Keyword | solid waste management; LCA; LCC; SCLA; MCDA; VIKOR |
| Material Type | Thesis/Dissertation |
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