Evaluation of key driver categories influencing sustainable waste management development with the analytic hierarchy process (AHP): Serbia example.
The problems of waste management have become increasingly complex in recent decades. The increasing amount of generated waste, adopted legislation in the field of waste management, administrative issues, economic impacts and social awareness are important drivers in achieving a sustainable waste management system. However, in practice, there are many other drivers that are often mutually in conflict. The purpose of this research is to define the precise driver and their corresponding sub-drivers, which are relevant for developing a waste management system and, on the basis of their importance, to determine which has the predominant influence on the slow development of a waste management system at the national and regional level, within the Republic of Serbia and similar countries of southeast Europe. This research presents two levels of decision making: the first is a pair-wise comparison of the drivers in relation to the goal and the second is a pair-wise comparison of the sub-drivers in relation to the driver and in relation to the goal. Results of performed analyses on the waste management drivers were integrated via the decision-making process supported by an analytic hierarchy process (AHP). The final results of this research shows that the Institutional-Administrative driver is the most important for developing a sustainable waste management system.
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Environmental Engineering and Occupational Safety and Health, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia bojanatot@uns.ac.rs.
Bojana
B
Tot
Faculty of Agriculture, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Bojan
B
Srđević
Technical Faculty 'Mihajlo Pupin', University of Novi Sad, Zrenjanin, Serbia.
Bogdana
B
Vujić
Polytechnic Institute of Viana do Castelo, School of Technology and Management, 4900-348 Viana do Castelo, Portugal.
Mário Augusto Tavares
MA
Russo
Faculty of Technical Sciences, Department of Environmental Engineering and Occupational Safety and Health, University of Novi Sad, Novi Sad, Serbia.
Goran
G
Vujić
D055771:Serbia; D018505:Waste Management / Q000379:methods*
AHP method; Republic of Serbia; Waste management; decision makers; drivers