Disaster Waste Management Using Systems Dynamics: A Case Study in Southern Brazil

Magalhães, Mauricio Rodrigues de; Lima, Fabiana Santos; Campos, Lucila Maria de Souza; Rodriguez, Carlos Taboada; Maldonado, Maurício Uriona

doi:10.1007/978-3-030-23816-2_24

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“…building rubble, plant material, etc.). Specific focii of investigation have centered on strategies for managing disaster waste (see (Amato et al, 2020;de Magalhães et al, 2018;Domingo and Luo, 2017;Dugar et al, 2020;Gabrielli et al, 2018;Karunasena and Amaratunga, 2016;Karunasena et al, 2009) including possible options for reuse or recycling (see (Brown and Milke, 2016;Regattieri et al, 2018;Tabata et al, 2019), the modelling of potential impacts and systems reliability (Cheng et al, 2018;Trivedi et al, 2015), and the restoration of waste management systems postdisaster (see (Petersen, 2004;Ulusan and Ergun, 2018). However, what is less understood are the waste impacts of the human or societal responses to these disasters, such as disaster relief, socioeconomic restrictions, or shifts in consumption patterns.…”

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“This is our next problem”: Cleaning up from the COVID-19 response

2020

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“This is our next problem”: Cleaning up from the COVID-19 response

2020

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“…building rubble, plant material, etc.) (Amato et al 2020;de Magalhães et al 2018;Domingo & Luo 2017;Dugar et al 2020;Gabrielli et al 2018;Karunasena & Amaratunga 2016;Karunasena et al 2009) including possible options for reuse or recycling (Brown & Milke 2016;Regattieri et al 2018;Tabata et al 2019), the modelling of potential impacts and systems reliability (Cheng et al 2018;Trivedi et al 2015), and the restoration of waste management systems post-disaster (Petersen 2004;Ulusan & Ergun 2018). Moreover, the literature on emergency medical disaster relief pays, at best, tokenistic lip service to waste management issues.…”

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“We Are Already Sick”: Infectious Waste Management and Inequality in the Time of Covid-19, a Reflection from Blantyre, Malawi

Tilley¹,

Kalina

2020

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The efficient and sanitary management of infectious waste is an essential part of the humanitarian response to any disaster, including the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. Unfortunately, in many contexts within the Global South, waste management systems are poorly equipped to handle these waste streams during periods of normalcy, let alone during times of crisis. The purpose of this article is draw attention to a number of existing inequalities that define infectious waste management practices globally, with a critical eye to how they constrain poorer nations' ability to respond and manage their own Covid-19 outbreaks. In particular, the work draws on the authors' extensive research, experience, and activism at Queen Elizabeth Central Hospital in Blantyre, Malawi, to understand how waste management practices will inform and react to mitigation efforts and to propose a number of practical steps that can be achieved in the short-term, as well as towards long-term structural transformation. Ultimately, this conversation is meant to contribute to a more inclusive and critical waste management studies discourse.

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