Samaneh Sadat Mohseni Armaki*, Shahrzad Khoramnejadian, Saeed Reza Asemi Zavareh and Azita Behbahaninia
The urbanization and population increase have led to a surge in the generation of significant amounts of solid waste across a majority of the cities in developing countries. Municipal waste management is a public issue with health, environmental, economic and social implications at the home, local, national and international levels, so the scope of management of this category is very wide and variable, for such an organization there is no other way but strategic management. So far, the authorities have made efforts to develop specialized criteria and meet the needs and implementation of management. However, in addition to planning, factors such as the allocation of funds and real facilities, education and information play a very important role in this regard. This qualitative-quantitative study was conducted with the aim of designing a strategic model of municipal solid waste management with a minimization approach through maximum participation of citizens, stakeholders in decision making. Participation of stakeholders, executive platforms and operational plans in the field of waste management, raising awareness and creating a culture is one of the main factors in waste management. Based on this, the strategic model of municipal solid waste management was designed with a minimization approach through maximum citizen participation of stakeholders in decision making. In the next step, in order to evaluate and validate the model, its applicability in the field of operation and fitting the model in measurement, structural and general dimensions was done with the help of smart pls2 software. This paper identifies and explores key elements for planning and implementing maximum public participation with decision making of stakeholders in the area of solid waste minimization. These can include stakeholders (e.g., citizen participation in decision-making, changing attitudes and behaviors), service providers (e.g., mobilizing all service providers, i.e. municipalities and non-municipalities, including the formal private sector) and informal and community), tackling corruption issues, sustainability of financial resources (such as awareness of related costs, cost-effective services, improving revenue processes, access to finance) and creating effective national policies and institutions and local (such as law enforcement, clarity of roles and responsibilities, job creation, information management systems).
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