Database Construction on MSW Management in Asian Countries

人口的快速增长和城市化对城市环境的破坏一直是发展中国家关注的主要问题。特别是城市固体废物对人类健康和生境造成了严重损害。由于缺乏行政资金，三分之一至一半的都市固体废物仍未在住宅区收集，或往往被非法抑制。虽然需要有效的城市固体废物管理政策，但如果没有提供发展中国家城市固体废物处理和处置信息的详尽数据库，就无法制定健全的城市固体废物管理政策。城市固体废物管理方案在很大程度上取决于该地区的社会经济结构。因此，在制定政策时，必须对各个城市的社会经济结构进行分析，并相互比较。在本研究中，我们正在构建一个新的数据库，该数据库使用通用平台来衡量22个主要城市（亚洲16个发展中国家）的城市生活垃圾管理和社会经济结构。此外，我们正在比较各城市之间或这些国家之间的管理和结构，然后根据人口和经济情况建议必要的措施。本研究采用文献调查法和对城市垃圾管理者、地方政府和研究机构的实地调查询问法。

Environmental destruction in urban area due to rapid growth in population and in urbanization has been a dominant concern of developing country. Especially, municipal solid wastes (MSW) have caused severe damage in human health as well as in habitat. One third to half of total MSW generation remains uncollected in residential area or tends to be illegally damped due to the lack of administration finance.Although effectual MSW management policy is required, the policymaking for sound MSW management cannot be achieved without the exhaustive database, which provides information as for MSW treatment and disposal in developing country. MSW management scheme largely depends on socioeconomic structure of the area. Therefore, socioeconomic structure of the individual cities must be analyzed and must be compared each other to make the policy.In the present study, we are constructing a new database, which uses common platform to measure MSW management and socioeconomic structure of 22 major cities (of 16 developing country in Asia). In addition, we are comparing the management and the structure among minicipalities or among those countries and then, are recommending necessary measures based on demographic- and economic-scenario. This study is composed of literature survey and site-survey inquiry to the MSW administrators, the local governments and research institutes.