title: A multiple criteria analysis for household solid waste management in the urban community of Dakar.
abstract: Household solid waste management is a severe problem in big cities of developing countries. Mismanaged solid waste dumpsites produce bad sanitary, ecological and economic consequences for the whole population, especially for the poorest urban inhabitants. Dealing with this problem, this paper utilizes field data collected in the urban community of Dakar, in view of ranking nine areas of the city with respect to multiple criteria of nuisance. Nine criteria are built and organized in three families that represent three classical viewpoints: the production of wastes, their collection and their treatment. Thanks to the method PROMETHEE and the software ARGOS, we do a pair-wise comparison of the nine areas, which allows their multiple criteria rankings according to each viewpoint and then globally. Finding the worst and best areas in terms of nuisance for a better waste management in the city is our final purpose, fitting as well as possible the needs of the urban community. Based on field knowledge and on the literature, we suggest applying general and area-specific remedies to the household solid waste problems.
authors.affiliation: University of Liege, B-4000 Liege, Belgium.
authors.forename: Ka-Mbayu
authors.initials: KM
authors.lastname: Kapepula
authors.forename: Gerard
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Colson
authors.forename: Karim
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sabri
authors.forename: Philippe
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Thonart
mesh_terms: D001530:Belgium; D002947:Cities; D016000:Cluster Analysis; D004777:Environment; D012037:Refuse Disposal / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D012499:Sanitation; D012984:Software; D014186:Transportation; D018505:Waste Management / Q000191:economics / Q000379:methods*; D014866:Waste Products
chemical_list: D014866:Waste Products