Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Paradigm to Smart Cities
The smart city concept refers to a new paradigm for urban planning and management. Based on advance use of technology, it aims at accomplishing better cities. These cities are more likely to have an integrated viewpoint which includes social, economic, an
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Municipal Solid Waste Management: A Paradigm to Smart Cities Anita Singh Batar and Tarush Chandra Abstract The smart city concept refers to a new paradigm for urban planning and management. Based on advance use of technology, it aims at accomplishing better cities. These cities are more likely to have an integrated viewpoint which includes social, economic, and environmental aspects. Managing solid waste is among the important challenges in urban areas throughout the world. In developing countries like India where a rapid increase in population has been observed in past decades, solid waste management has become a critical issue. Of the different smart service delivery areas, solid waste management is also one of the key service areas for making a city smart. Like many fast-growing metropolitan cities in India, Jaipur is a metropolitan city having quite an inefficient, outdated, and unscientific system for handling of municipal solid waste. The lack of organized system of door-to-door collection, inefficient transportation, unscientific and uncontrolled open dumping of waste, etc. needs to be improved. This paper attempts to assess the existing status of municipal solid waste management in Jaipur City by identifying the related issues. The study concludes with select proposals to use identified best practices in planning for municipal solid waste management toward making a city smart. Keywords Municipal solid waste management • Smart city • Jaipur
A.S. Batar M Plan in Urban Planning, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India e-mail: [email protected] T. Chandra (*) Department of Architecture & Planning, Malaviya National Institute of Technology Jaipur, Jaipur, Rajasthan, India e-mail: [email protected] © Springer Science+Business Media Singapore 2017 F. Seta et al. (eds.), From Poverty, Inequality to Smart City, Springer Transactions in Civil and Environmental Engineering, DOI 10.1007/978-981-10-2141-1_1
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1.1 Introduction Smartness in a city means different things to different people. It could be smart design, smart utilities, smart housing, smart mobility, smart technology, etc. Institutional infrastructure (including governance), physical infrastructure, social infrastructure, and economic infrastructure constitute the four pillars of a city. A broad classification of each of these may be understood as follows. Institutional infrastructure refers to the activities related to governance, planning, and management of a city. Economic infrastructure includes skill development centers, industrial parks, export processing zones, trade centers, service centers, financial centers, etc. Social infrastructure relates to the components which work toward development of human and social capital. These include education, healthcare, entertainment, etc. Physical infrastructure refers to cost-efficient and intelligent stock such as urban mobility, housing, energy system, water supply, sewerage and drainage, sanitation facilities, solid waste management,
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