Improving waste management by focussing on goals: A mini review of the publication sector.

ABSTRACT: The rationale for this article is that often, decision-makers in waste management (wm) tend to neglect goals and confuse them with means like circular economy or waste hierarchy. Because clear goals are crucial for developing effective wm strategies, the objectives of this mini review are (1) to clarify wm goals in a historical context by a literature review, (2) to investigate how (a) these goals have been observed in general scientific publishing and (b) specifically in Waste Management and Research (WM&R) and (3) to recommend measures for better consideration of wm goals by the publication sector. Based on general as well as specific bibliographic analyses of databases in Scopus and Google Scholar, the study confirms that little attention was given to wm goals in scientifi

SUBMITTER: Brunner PH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10731828 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature