A life-cycle capacity-based approach to allocating investments in municipal sanitation infrastructure

Louis, Garrick; Magpili, Luna

doi:10.1080/15732470600590960

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“…Based on the landfill design features, and mode of operation mentioned in the paper, all four priority ratings are quite similar to those in the developed world. These conclusions would seem to differ from the conclusions derived by others studying solid waste management practices in other developing countries (Magpili 2007;Louis and Magpili 2007). However, what became clear in discussing the type of landfill design and operation used in this paper is that, similar to the developed countries, some regions in the developing world operate more modern landfill facilities than others.…”

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confidence: 69%

Development of a landfill model to prioritize design and operating objectives

Öhman

Hettiaratchi

Ruwanpura

et al. 2007

Environ Monit Assess

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The application of scientifically based decision making tools to help address solid waste management issues dates back to the early 1960s. Researchers continue to use operations research tools to help optimize landfill design and operating parameters. This paper discusses the application of another type of decision making tool, the analytical hierarchy process (AHP), to address priority ranking for a number of landfill engineering design and operating objectives in developing and developed countries. In this application, the AHP is used to rank, and prioritize, economic, environmental, health and safety, legislative and public perception objectives for landfill design and operations specific to landfill distance from a community, and precipitation levels. Results from a global survey using the Delphi process are included, with a discussion on the survey's impact on the objective rankings relative to community proximity and precipitation. The Delphi process worked extremely well, and was an excellent tool to use in this application. The initial results from the objective rankings show promise in the development of an integrated model for landfill design and operation.

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Section: Presentation and Discussion Of Resultscontrasting

confidence: 69%

Development of a landfill model to prioritize design and operating objectives

Öhman

Hettiaratchi

Ruwanpura

et al. 2007

Environ Monit Assess

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“…Louis and Magpili (2007) define a full capacity assessment involving the systematic measurement of deficiencies in the requirements for the whole system of a MSS. These requirements are defined for eight Capacity Factors (CF) that determine sustained access to the service in a community.…”

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confidence: 99%

Risk-based sequential allocation of competing sanitation infrastructure investments

Louis

Magpili

Pinto

2012

IJEWM

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Given severe sanitation service shortages, infrastructure interdependencies and extreme scarcity of funding that prevail in many developing countries, the allocation of funds across the three services of providing drinking water, wastewater and sewage and solid waste is vital to their sustained expansion. This paper adopts an approach to resource allocation for the three services based on the triplet of questions found in risk management regarding what options are available, their associated trade-offs, and their impacts on future options. An example shows an application to a multistage sequential allocation of investments to sanitation infrastructure representative of a scenario in developing countries.

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“…The capacity factors are categorized under eight general headings: institutional, human resources, technical, economic/financial, environmental/natural resources, energy, sociocultural, and service [18]. The capacity factors approach developed by Garrick Louis at the University of Virginia is used to assess community resource levels and technology management levels for the selection and implementation of a solution for water supply and sanitation systems in developing communities.…”

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confidence: 99%