Organic waste management in Manitoba, Canada: barriers and opportunities to implement best-practices
| dc.contributor.author | Valdivia, Jeffrey | |
| dc.contributor.examiningcommittee | Haque, Emdad (Natural Resources Management) Black, Joanna (Education) Ferguson, Jim (Green Manitoba) | en |
| dc.contributor.supervisor | Thompson, Shirley (Natural Resources Management) | en |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2011-01-18T22:24:52Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2011-01-18T22:24:52Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2011-01-18T22:24:52Z | |
| dc.degree.discipline | Natural Resources Management | en_US |
| dc.degree.level | Master of Natural Resources Management (M.N.R.M.) | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | This thesis evaluates the waste management system in the province of Manitoba, Canada and other jurisdictions to identify best practices for, and barriers and opportunities to, improving its impact on the environment. Multiple methods were used. First, a survey of expert stakeholders in the waste management sector in Manitoba was conducted, which was followed by an expert stakeholder meeting that further refined the results of the survey. Second, waste management systems of Manitoba, Canada, Nova Scotia, Canada, New South Wales, Australia, and Denmark were compared to determine which of the options already in use by other jurisdictions might be useful in Manitoba. Finally, an estimation of the amount of organic waste entering landfills in Manitoba was conducted, along with an estimation of the resulting methane emissions from landfills to determine their greenhouse gas emissions. | en |
| dc.description.note | February 2011 | en |
| dc.format.extent | 1044447 bytes | |
| dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1993/4368 | |
| dc.language.iso | eng | en_US |
| dc.rights | open access | en_US |
| dc.subject | waste management | en |
| dc.subject | organic waste | en |
| dc.subject | best-practices | en |
| dc.subject | opportunities | en |
| dc.subject | barriers | en |
| dc.subject | Manitoba | en |
| dc.subject | policy | en |
| dc.title | Organic waste management in Manitoba, Canada: barriers and opportunities to implement best-practices | en |
| dc.type | master thesis | en_US |