Developing Decision Support Model For Urban Planners For Municipal Solid Waste Management Plan

Abstract

In the race of Globalization, India is Urbanising at a faster pace. This has led to poorer newlinequality of life in Urban Centers due to high pressure on the scanty urban resources. Poor newlinehandling of city solid waste is a major concern today. Further, it is going to be a greater newlineconcern for tomorrow also. Waste Management and its safe disposal can not de postponed newlinefor tomorrow and it has to be handled simultaneously with the developmental process. newlineMany cities in the world have tried to address their waste management through a process newlineof trial and error. Similarly, Indian cities have also tried many waste Management Models newlineand Technologies with some amount of successes and failures also. It is a Mantra in Solid newlineWaste Management that every city is unique in its solid waste problems and local newlinesolutions needs to be developed for local problems. Global solutions and western newlinetechnologies are not going to solve the local Indian waste problems. Management of newlineMunicipal Solid Waste can not be addressed without taking the stakeholders into newlineconsiderations. The success of a Model depends on the extent of participation and newlineownership expressed by the stakeholders. The problem is more complex due to newlineinvolvement of too many stakeholders, too many technological solutions and newlineenvironmental regulations (present and future). Waste can be considered as a resource and newlineit can be handled more economically in an environment friendly way, that too in a socially newlineacceptable manner. newlineIn this research an attempt will be made to develop generic models to help the urban newlineplanners. It will try to encompass all possible variables and simplify the Model by making newlinesome due assumptions. The Model should be able to guide the Policy Makers in MSW newlineManagement to take appropriate decisions suitable to their respective towns and cities. newlineThe task is enormous and uncertain. The attempt is to develop a simplified, generic, and newlinepracticable model. The biggest task is to take all variables into account and come up with a newlinesimplified generic model which can be applied to d