Municipal solid waste management in refugee hosting communities: Analysis of a case study in northern Jordan.

The Syrian civil war, which broke out in 2011, caused the displacement of more than one million refugees to Jordan. Most of them settled in the Northern Govenorates of Jordan. Due to this, the local services and infrastructures of the hosting communities, in particular the solid waste management (SWM), were put under great pressure.

Application of risk analysis to landfills in Italy: Developed and tested methodology at provincial level.

In the Italian authorization procedure for the construction of a landfill, the risk analysis (RA) is mandatory in case of request for derogation from the current legislation (Ministerial Decree (D.M.) 27 September 2010) in order to demonstrate that there is no risk for the environment.