Risk assessment of landfill disposal sites – State of the art

Butt, Talib E., Lockley, Elaine and Oduyemi, Kehinde O.K. (2008) Risk assessment of landfill disposal sites – State of the art. Waste Management, 28 (6). pp. 952-964. ISSN 0956-053X

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Abstract

A risk assessment process can assist in drawing a cost-effective compromise between economic and environmental costs, thereby assuring that the philosophy of ‘sustainable development’ is adhered to. Nowadays risk analysis is in wide use to effectively manage environmental issues. Risk assessment is also applied to other subjects including health and safety, food, finance, ecology and epidemiology. The literature review of environmental risk assessments in general and risk assessment approaches particularly regarding landfill disposal sites undertaken by the authors, reveals that an integrated risk assessment methodology for landfill gas, leachate or degraded waste does not exist. A range of knowledge gaps is discovered in the literature reviewed to date. From the perspective of landfill leachate, this paper identifies the extent to which various risk analysis aspects are absent in the existing approaches.

Item Type:	Article
Subjects:	H900 Others in Engineering
Department:	Faculties > Engineering and Environment > Mechanical and Construction Engineering
Depositing User:	Paul Burns
Date Deposited:	05 Sep 2019 14:43
Last Modified:	10 Oct 2019 15:33
URI:	http://nrl.northumbria.ac.uk/id/eprint/40538

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