8 December, 2006 | Publication
A review of informal sector recycling in developing countries by DCW and colleagues at Imperial College appears in the December 2006 issue of Habitat International.
Habitat International is the leading academic journal for the study of human settlements, established by the UN Habitat Conference in Vancouver in 1976. This article appears in a special issue on Urban waste management as if people matter. The abstract can be read online at the Science Direct website.
8 June, 2006 | Conference, Publication
Professor David C Wilson presented 2 papers at this week’s ISWA Congress in Copenhagen. His keynote paper was on Development Drivers in Waste Management, which explored how the key drivers have varied historically and how they vary today, both around the world and depending on a particular stakeholder’s perspective. Click here to view the paper, or the presentation. He also co-authored a paper with Defra on the role of research to provide the evidence base to underpin new waste and resources policy and legislation. Click here to view the paper or the presentation. ISWA (the International Solid Waste Association) is the international professional body for waste and resources managers.
8 October, 2005 | Publication
DCW presented two papers and co-authored a further two at the major international waste management Symposium held this week in Sardinia, attended by nearly 1000 people. DCW’s papers were on the development of a UK national strategy for waste and resources research, and on the development of a regional strategy for waste management in the Russian Baltic Oblast of Kaliningrad (as a case study of how international technical assistance can be made to work in Russia).
8 October, 2005 | Publication
Prof David C Wilson has been is leading the ERM consultancy team supporting the NI Department of the Environment on their review of their Waste Management Strategy.
Consultation proposals were published today, under the title Towards Resource Management. Professor Wilson will be presenting the policy proposals to two consultation workshops, in Belfast and Derry, on 6 and 7 December 2005.
8 September, 2005 | Publication
DCW’s paper ‘The hazardous wastes dilemma: How the UK is coping with the demise of landfill co-disposal for hazardous waste’ is published in the September/October edition of the ISWA magazine Waste Management World. DCW represents CIWM on Defra’s Hazardous Waste Forum (HWF) and is Chair of the Northern Ireland HWF. An unabridged version of the paper is available here.
