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Solid waste management in urban areas of Vientiane Capital City using GIS
conference contribution
posted on 2018-02-12, 15:08 authored by Virany SengtianthrThe purpose of this project was to research solid waste management in urban areas of Vientiane Capital City; to survey
about waste collection, composition of waste and recycling for the economy; to establish waste data for monitoring and
management using GIS; to improve aesthetics of the city and increase public awareness. The map created by geographic
information system (GIS) was proposed to generate GIS database of solid waste with data entry of the details - spatial
and attributes - bins, routes, quantity of dry waste etc. The analysis techniques were composed of database generation and
map visualization. Map overlay techniques were used to study the general sources of solid waste and waste distribution
boundaries. The waste collected by the Vientiane Cleaning Unit under the Vientiane Urban Development and Administration
Authority, and waste pickers is thought to be different from the landfill waste. There is a lack of a data sharing and
also a lack of database generation using geographic information system. Therefore, good methods of waste management
and appropriate technology are needed to improve this trend.
History
School
- Architecture, Building and Civil Engineering
Research Unit
- Water, Engineering and Development Centre (WEDC)
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WEDC ConferenceCitation
SENGTIANTHR, V., 2004. Solid waste management in urban areas of Vientiane Capital City using GIS. IN: Godfrey, S. (ed). People-centred approaches to water and environmental sanitation: Proceedings of the 30th WEDC International Conference, Vientiane, Laos, 25-29 October 2004, pp. 137-140.Publisher
© WEDC, Loughborough UniversityVersion
- VoR (Version of Record)
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This work is made available according to the conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International (CC BY-NC-ND 4.0) licence. Full details of this licence are available at: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/Publication date
2004Notes
This is a conference paper.Other identifier
WEDC_ID:11604Language
- en
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