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This edited volume takes a comprehensive look at solid waste management across jurisdictions in Canada, including provinces, territories, municipalities and Indigenous communities.
List of contents
About the Editors. List of Contributors. Acknowledgements. Introduction. PART 1: WASTE MANAGEMENT POLICY AND GOVERNANCE. 1. Moving Up the Waste Hierarchy: A Canadian Case Study. 2. Municipal Strategies for Zero Waste Planning. 3. Challenges and Opportunities for Industrial, Commercial and Institutional (IC&I) Waste Compliance in Nova Scotia. 4. Bridging the Gap: Communicating Sustainability in Waste Management to Diverse Audiences. PART 2: WASTE MANAGEMENT IN NORTHERN, REMOTE, RURAL, AND INDIGENOUS COMMUNITIES. 5. Waste Stewardship in Northern, Remote, Rural and First Nations Communities in Saskatchewan - Challenges and Opportunities. 6. Municipal Solid Waste Management in Northern Manitoba Municipalities. 7. Municipal Solid Waste Management in First Nations: Examining Operational Challenges and Solutions. PART 3: COMMUNITY-BASED WASTE MANAGEMENT APPROACHES. 8. Contribution of Waste Pickers' Grassroots Organizations to Waste Management in Victoria and Vancouver. 9. Recycling Right: A Multi-stakeholder Perspective from Ontario. 10. Recycling Behaviours and Knowledge in Western Newfoundland: Explanations and Recommendations. PART 4: LANDFILLS AND INNOVATIVE WASTE MANAGEMENT. 11. Field Investigation and Numerical Modelling of MSW Settlement in Cold Regions. 12. Landfill Biocell Technology for Northern Climates: The Calgary Biocell. 13. Composting As a Promising Alternative for Phosphorus Recovery from Food Waste: A Case Study of Canadian Solid Waste Management Practices. 14. Analyzing Geospatial Characteristics and Solar Potential of Closed Landfill Sites in Saskatchewan. PART 5: EMERGING WASTE MANAGEMENT. 15. Emerging solid wastes and arising environmental impacts. 16. Wind turbine end-of-life waste management in Nova Scotia, Canada. 17. Enhancing waste management systems in Canada: Integration of Geographic Information System and Remote Sensing Approaches. Index.
About the author
Anderson Assuah is an Associate Professor in the Aboriginal and Northern Studies program at University College of the North (The Pas campus), Manitoba. His research mainly focuses on solid waste management, sustainability, environmental governance, Indigenous environmental knowledge, and climate change in northern, rural, and Indigenous communities. Dr. Assuah is the founder and chairperson of the University College of the North Sustainability Committee, which promotes Indigenous and non-Indigenous sustainability strategies in northern Manitoba. He earned his Ph.D. in Natural Resources and Environmental Management from the Natural Resources Institute, University of Manitoba, Canada.
Kelvin Tsun Wai Ng is Professor of Environmental Systems Engineering at University of Regina, Canada. Kelvin's fields of interest are in sustainable solid waste management, particularly in data-driven waste policy and waste systems design. Kelvin has received awards in both teaching and research. Kelvin has reviewed over 510 journal manuscripts. Kelvin is currently serving as an Associate Editor for
Waste Management (Elsevier), an editor
for Environmental Science and Pollution Research (Springer), and an editorial board member for
Ecological Informatics (Elsevier). Kelvin has made editorial decisions on 220+ journal manuscripts as editor or associate editor. Kelvin has organized seven international conferences.
