Environmental contamination due to solid waste mismanagement is a global issue. Open dumping and open burning are the main implemented waste treatment and final disposal systems, mainly visible in low-income countries. This paper reviews the main impacts due to waste mismanagement in developing countries, focusing on environmental contamination and social issues. The activity of the informal sector in developing cities was also reviewed, focusing on the main health risks due to waste scavenging. Results reported that the environmental impacts are pervasive worldwide: marine litter, air, soil and water contamination, and the direct interaction of waste pickers with hazardous waste are the most important issues. Many reviews were published in the scientific literature about specific waste streams, in order to quantify its effect on the environment. This narrative literature review assessed global issues due to different waste fractions showing how several sources of pollution are affecting the environment, population health, and sustainable development. The results and case studies presented can be of reference for scholars and stakeholders for quantifying the comprehensive impacts and for planning integrated solid waste collection and treatment systems, for improving sustainability at a global level.

Waste Mismanagement in Developing Countries: A Review of Global Issues.

We analyze the evolution of the scientific consensus on anthropogenic global warming (AGW) in the peer-reviewed scientific literature, examining 11 944 climate abstracts from 1991–2011 matching the topics 'global climate change' or 'global warming'. We find that 66.4% of abstracts expressed no position on AGW, 32.6% endorsed AGW, 0.7% rejected AGW and 0.3% were uncertain about the cause of global warming. Among abstracts expressing a position on AGW, 97.1% endorsed the consensus position that humans are causing global warming. In a second phase of this study, we invited authors to rate their own papers. Compared to abstract ratings, a smaller percentage of self-rated papers expressed no position on AGW (35.5%). Among self-rated papers expressing a position on AGW, 97.2% endorsed the consensus. For both abstract ratings and authors' self-ratings, the percentage of endorsements among papers expressing a position on AGW marginally increased over time. Our analysis indicates that the number of papers rejecting the consensus on AGW is a vanishingly small proportion of the published research. 2013 Environ. Res. Lett. 8 024024

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Quantifying the consensus on anthropogenic global warming in the scientific literature

Wiebe E Bijker, Thomas P Hughes and Trevor Pinch (eds) 1987 London: MIT x + 405 pp price £29.95 ISBN 0 262 02262 1 Science and technology have come under scrutiny from several social science perspectives. Historians, philosophers, economists and sociologists have all made their contribution.

https://iopscience.iop.org/article/10.1088/0031-9112/39/8/019/pdf

The Social Construction of Technological Systems: New Directions in the Sociology and History of Technology

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Advancing Sustainable Urban Transformation

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Human Settlements, Infrastructure and Spatial Planning

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Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

Challenges in implementing the extended producer responsibility in an emerging economy: The end-of-life tire management in Colombia

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Governmental export promotion initiatives: awareness, participation, and perceived effectiveness among Swedish environmental technology firms

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Analyzing international city networks for sustainability: a study of five major Swedish cities

In a world recently declared urban, each day technology plays a more important role in society. A majority of people seem to believe in technology not only for solving everyday problems and for sup ...

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Papers

Lessons from the spread of Bus Rapid Transit in Latin America

Challenges in implementing the extended producer responsibility in an emerging economy: The end-of-life tire management in Colombia

Governmental export promotion initiatives: awareness, participation, and perceived effectiveness among Swedish environmental technology firms

Analyzing international city networks for sustainability: a study of five major Swedish cities

Diffusion of Environmental Technology in a Megacity - A case study of Mexico City