A Learning and Decision Methodology for Drainage and Sanitation Improvement in Developing Cities

Buuren, Joost van; Hendriksen, Astrid

doi:10.1007/978-90-481-3721-3_6

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“…Economic criteria are often not only expressed as the cost of the system, but can also include impacts of the system on the local economy (van Buuren, 2010). The selected economic criteria for this study are operations, maintenance and investment costs, which specify the costs of the system and, less so, the economic impact on the local economy.…”

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The determination of an optimal waste management scenario for Kampala, Uganda

2013

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The quality of the environment in the city of Kampala is deteriorating. The city needs a novel waste management approach to improve the environmental quality in its heterogeneous settlement patterns. Earlier, an integrated urban waste flow model (IUWFM) was applied to project the future waste flows and their impacts on the environment of Kampala using four waste management scenarios. These scenarios were 'business-as-usual', 'more enforcement', 'more collection' and 'proper management'. The robustness of the scenario results was determined by using a multi-criteria decision analysis. Twenty-four criteria were identified and grouped as environmental, economic, social, technological and general. Equal weights were assigned to these five sets of criteria. The four scenarios were evaluated against all criteria, and a sensitivity analysis was performed on the role of the equal weights on the choice of the scenarios. The results showed that 'proper management' scenario, which integrates diverse technologies and management programs matching with the local context, is the optimal approach to improve Kampala's environmental quality. Scenarios that emphasized more waste collection, but less resource recovery were ranked in the middle. The scenario of maintaining the status quo performed worst. Application of a mix of diverse technologies and management programs matching the local conditions is the most optimal solution to improve Kampala's environmental quality.

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The determination of an optimal waste management scenario for Kampala, Uganda

2013

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“…Meanwhile, environmental policy-making processes have been considered inadequate in the absence of a dialogue between all relevant stakeholder groups. Implementation of new policies failed because decisions proved not to be tailored to society's needs, constraints and challenges (Reed 2008;Van Buuren and Hendriksen 2010). Given these challenges, the search for sustainable solutions for environmental risks implies dealing with complexity and uncertainty, calls for new roles for and new relationships between scientists, policy-makers, private sectors and civil society and asks for innovative decision making and implementation strategies.…”

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“…Hence we are in need of methodologies that give stakeholder groups a justified, meaningful role and position in decision making on sustainability issues. As a consequence, searching for sustainable environmental solutions calls for clear roles for science, policy-making, private sectors and society (Van Buuren and Hendriksen 2010;Reed 2008), and these roles might differ in different stages or phases of a decision making process.…”

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“…One can imagine that a Proact 2.0 methodology will be more complicated in non-democratic systems such as currently exist in, for instance, North Korea. In countries like Vietnam and China, such methodologies seems very well possible regarding local sustainability issues such as sanitation facilities, solid waste management, safe drinking water, and clean air (Dieu and Oanh 2015;Liu et al 2015;Kostka and Mol 2013;Van Buuren and Hendriksen 2010;Zhong and Mol 2008). Yet, this might be less easy on more controversial national issues on sustainability, for instance those issues that relate to national energy provision and security, like nuclear energy or hydropower (Wu et al 2013).…”

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“…How relevant will the used participatory decision making models be for other sustainability issues? Proact 2.0 has been developed and tested in various other international research programmes, such as "Waste Separation at Source" and "Building a Bio-Waste Reuse Chain in South East Asian Cities"(Dieu and Oanh 2015;Van Buuren and Hendriksen 2010; Van Buuren 2010). Both projects focused on finding alternatives for dumping the huge amounts of organic waste in landfills in Ho Chi Minh City (Vietnam), Bangkok (Thailand) and Manilla (the Philippines).…”

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