Title: Voprosy Onkologii (St. Petersburg)

Title: Waste Management

ISO Abbreviated Title: Waste Manage.

JCR Abbreviated Title: Waste Manage

ISSN: 0956-053X

Issues/Year: 8

Journal Country/Territory: United States

Language: English

Publisher: Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd

Publisher Address: the Boulevard, Langford Lane, Kidlington, Oxford OX5 1GB, England

Subject Categories:

Engineering, Environmental: Impact Factor 0.395, 24/36 (2000)

Environmental Sciences: Impact Factor 0.260, 111/126 (1999); Impact Factor 0.395, 104/127 (2000)

? Feller, C. and Bernoux, M. (2008), Historical advances in the study of global terrestrial soil organic carbon sequestration. Waste Management, 28 (4), 734-740.

Full Text: 2008\Was Man28, 734.pdf

Abstract: This paper serves two purposes: it provides a summarized scientific history of carbon sequestration in relation to the soil-plant system and gives a commentary on organic wastes and SOC sequestration.

The concept of soil organic carbon (SOC) sequestration has its roots in: (i) the experimental work of Lundegårdh, particularly his in situ measurements of CO₂ fluxes at the soil-plant interface (1924, 1927, 1930); (ii) the first estimates of SOC stocks at the global level made by Waksman [Waksman, S.A., 1938. Humus. Origin, Chemical Composition and Importance in Nature, second ed. revised. Williams and Wilkins, Baltimore, p. 526] and Rubey [Rubey, W.W., 1951. Geologic history of sea water. Bulletin of the Geological Society of America 62, 1111–1148]; (iii) the need for models dealing with soil organic matter (SOM) or SOC dynamics beginning with a conceptual SOM model by De Saussure (1780–1796) followed by the mathematical models of Jenny [Jenny, H., 1941. Factors of Soil Formation: a System of Quantitative Pedology. Dover Publications, New York, p. 288], Hénin and Dupuis [Hénin, S., Dupuis, M., 1945. Essai de bilan de la matière organique. Annales d’Agronomie 15, 17–29] and more recently the RothC [Jenkinson, D.S., Rayner, J.H., 1977. The turnover of soil organic matter in some of the Rothamsted classical experiments. Soil Science 123 (5), 298–305] and Century [Parton, W.J., Schimel, D.S., Cole, C.V., Ojima, D.S., 1987. Analysis of factors controlling soil organic matter levels in great plains grasslands. Soil Science Society of America Journal 51 (5), 1173–1179] models.

The establishment of a soil C sequestration balance is not straightforward and depends greatly on the origin and the composition of organic matter that is to be returned to the system. Wastes, which are important sources of organic carbon for soils, are taken as an example. for these organic materials the following factors have to be considered: the presence or absence of fossil C, the potential of direct and indirect emissions of non-CO₂ greenhouse gases (CH₄ and N₂O) following application and the agro-system which is being used as a comparative reference.

? Cossu, R. (2009), Story of a success which must go on. Waste Management, 29 (4), 1235-1236.

Full Text: 2009\Was Man29, 1235.pdf

? Fu, H.Z., Ho, Y.S., Sui, Y.M. and Li, Z.S. (2010), A bibliometric analysis of solid waste research during the period 1993-2008. Waste Management, 30 (12), 2410-2417.

Full Text: 2010\Was Man30, 2410.pdf; 2010\Was Man-Fu.pdf; 2010\Was Man-Fu1.pdf

Abstract: This study is a bibliometric analysis of solid waste research to evaluate the current trends, using the literature in the Science Citation Index (SCI) database from 1993 to 2008. Analyzed aspects included document type, language, and publication output as well as distribution of journals, subject category, countries, institutes, title-words, author keywords, and ‘Keywords Plus’. An evaluating indicator, h-Index, was applied to characterize the solid waste publications. The trend of publication outputs during 1993-2008 coincided with a power and an exponential model. Based on the exponential model during 2001-2008, the number of articles on solid waste in 2013 is predicted to be twice that in 2008. The most common subject category is environmental science and the most productive journal is Waste Management. The USA with most publications and China with the highest growth rate were compared. Finally, author keywords, words in title, and ‘Keywords Plus’ were analyzed to provide research emphasis. The results showed that mainstream research was centered on the following methods: recycling, landfilling, composting and waste-to-energy. Heavy metals, fly ash and sewage sludge were considered recent research hotspots. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Analysis, Author, Bibliometric, Bibliometric Analysis, China, Citation, Database, Diskette, Fly Ash, Growth, Growth Rate, h Index, h-Index, Heavy Metals, Index, Journal, Journals, Language, Li, Literature, Management, Metals, Model, Output, Plus, Publication, Publications, Recycling, Research, Research Hotspots, SCI, Science, Science Citation Index, Sciences, Sediment, Sewage Sludge, Trend, Trends, USA, Waste, Water

? Lu, W.S. and Yuan, H.P. (2011), A framework for understanding waste management studies in construction. Waste Management, 31 (6), 1252-1260.

Full Text: 2011\Was Man31, 1252.pdf

Abstract: During the past decades, construction and demolition (C&D) waste issues have received increasing attention from both practitioners and researchers around the world. A plethora of research relating to C&D waste management (WM) has been published in scholarly journals. However, a comprehensive understanding of the C&D WM research is somehow absent in spite of its proliferation. The aim of this paper is to develop a framework that helps readers understand the C&D WM research as archived in selected journals. Papers under the topic of C&D WM are retrieved based on a set of rigorous procedures. The information of these papers is then analyzed with the assistance of the Qualitative Social Research (QSR) software package NVivo. A framework for understanding C&D WM research is created based on the analytic results. By following the framework, a bibliometric analysis of research in C&D WM is presented, followed by an in-depth literature analysis. It is found that C&D generation, reduction, and recycling are the three major topics in the discipline of C&D WM. Future research is recommended to (a) investigate C&D waste issues in wider scopes including design, maintenance and demolition, (b) develop a unified measurement for waste generation so that WM performance can be compared across various economies, and (c) enhance effectiveness of WM approaches (e.g. waste charging scheme) based on new WM concepts (e.g. Extended Producer Responsibility). In addition to the above research findings, the approach for producing the research framework can be useful references for other studies which attempt to understand the research of a given discipline. (C) 2011 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.

Keywords: Bibliometric, Bibliometric Analysis, Concrete, Demolition Waste, Design, Generation, Hong-Kong, Industry, Information, Journals, Literature, Literature Analysis, Malaysia, Measurement, Minimization, Papers, Research