Dangerous wastes management in Cuba. Current situation and perspectives
Creators
- 1. Direccion de Medio Ambiente, Ministerio de Ciencia, Tecnologia y Medio Ambiente, La Habana, (Cuba)
Description
The appropriate handling of the dangerous waste has become a topic of high priority for all the countries and especially for those developing one that in general, they lack solid technical infrastructure, suitable technologies and human resources properly qualified to carry out this work without causing negative impacts on the environment. For these countries, this matter represents a true challenge, requiring you to have financial resources to create capacities and to acquire technologies, that which reality should be made with the support of the developed countries, but that up to now it doesn't stop to be a commitments without in the practice it is materialized in an effective way. The collaboration and the cooperation among the countries in development are also an useful road that should be increased. This work seeks to expose as Cuba it has faced this challenge, presenting the carried out actions, the confronted difficulties and the future actions that will be attacked so that the handling of dangerous waste doesn't constitute an environmental problem to solve
Additional details
Additional titles
- Original title (Spanish)
- Manejo de desechos peligrosos en Cuba. Situacion actual y perspectivas
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Cuba Medio Ambiente y Desarrollo
- Journal Volume
- 5
- Journal Issue
- no.8
- Journal Page Range
- [vp.]
- ISSN
- 1683-8904
INIS
- Country of Publication
- Cuba
- Country of Input or Organization
- Cuba
- INIS RN
- 39121883
- Subject category
- S54: ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES; S63: RADIATION, THERMAL, AND OTHER ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTANT EFFECTS ON LIVING ORGANISMS AND BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;
- Descriptors DEI
- CUBA; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACTS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; WASTE MANAGEMENT
- Descriptors DEC
- DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; GREATER ANTILLES; ISLANDS; LATIN AMERICA; MANAGEMENT; WEST INDIES