Infectious Waste Management Strategy during COVID-19 Pandemic in Africa: an Integrated Decision-Making Framework for Selecting Sustainable Technologies.
The emerging and underdeveloped countries in Africa face numerous difficulties managing infectious waste during the SARS-CoV-2 disease, known as the COVID-19 pandemic. Hence, the main aim of this paper is to help decision-makers in African countries to select the best available waste management stra...
| Publicado en: | Environmental Management Vol. 66; no. 6; pp. 1085 - 1105 |
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| Formato: | Journal Article |
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Springer Nature
2020
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