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Poornima A. Jayasinghe, Sybil Derrible and Lina Kattan
Developing integrated, sustainable, and resilient urban systems requires consideration of the different types of interdependencies between their infrastructure systems. The degree and nature of interdependencies among infrastructure systems vary widely. ...
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Mengistu A. Jemberie, Assefa M. Melesse and Brook Abate
Urban drainage infrastructures are facing critical challenges due to a lack of integrated asset management, periodic maintenance, improper design, and construction methodologies. The objective of this study is to understand the urban drainage challenges ...
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Yousra Bouleft and Ahmed Elhilali Alaoui
The rapid increase in urbanization results in an increase in the volume of municipal solid waste produced every day, causing overflow of the garbage cans and thus distorting the city?s appearance; for this and environmental reasons, smart cities involve ...
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Noah Yakah, Mahrokh Samavati, Augustine Akuoko Kwarteng, Andrew Martin and Anthony Simons
The per capita municipal solid waste (MSW) generation per day in Ghana is estimated to be 0.47 kg/person/day, which translates to over 14,000 tonnes of solid waste generation daily. The disposal and management of this amount of solid waste has been chall...
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Fabíola Pereira and Carlos Silva
The valorization of bio-waste as a resource for green energy production will be beneficial at a social, economic, and environmental level in different regions. The scope of this research is to develop the energetic valorization of the bio-waste fraction ...
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Qiao Liu, Qianhui Xu, Xin Shen, Bowei Chen and Sonia Sadeghian Esfahani
Economic growth and rapid urbanization have resulted in various urban issues related to sustainable development in emerging economies such as China. Nowadays, two-thirds of China?s cities are besieged by waste and one-fourth of the cities have no space t...
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Joshua Ntajal, Britta Höllermann, Timo Falkenberg, Thomas Kistemann and Mariele Evers
Water pollution is a major issue in Ghana with direct impacts on human health. However, the underlying drivers of exposure and risks are not comprehensively explored and understood, while the diseases continue posing huge burdens. The key question addres...
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Ghulam Qadir, Yasir Rashid, Ahmed Hassan, Esma Vall, Shamsa Saleh and Khadega Salim
In this study, a novel porous geopolymer mortar (GP) was produced and tested experimentally. Industrial waste materials/by-products were used as constituents of the GP, along with dune sand. One sample was produced as a control sample for benchmarking. F...
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M. Ali Ashraf, Md. Rezuanul Islam, Sarfaraz Gani Adnan
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Urban solid waste management is a serious environmental issue confronting the cities in developing countries like Bangladesh. Apathy towards the problem, inadequacy of field level information and data, and resource constraints may be blamed for the...
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Deepa Basnet
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Landfill is a mode of municipal solid waste disposal. Thus, it is imperative to select relevant site for land filling in order to curtail environmental damage and harmful impacts on wellbeing of public. Through the decades, rummage around various p...
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