Urban environmental management of the life cycle of domiciliary solid waste in the city of Holguín, Cuba

Abstract

The processes of demographic growth concurrently with high consumption levels that each society experiment, constitute the factors that increase the generation of domiciliary solid waste, bringing a rupture of the natural life cycle. This situation is caused by the non-adaptation of the life cycle to the patterns of the urban space occupation. Because of this, the present investigation designs a methodology, from the urban environmental management`s functions, which integrates the life cycle of the domiciliary solid waste to the use of the ground, the structure and the predominant morphology. It also incorporates corrective actions to facilitate the social participation in the identification and evaluation of the main associated impacts, and a group of regulations for the natural and socioeconomic system that made possible to harmonize the efforts of the entities involved through environmental education criteria and through the political, technicians and social actors´ participation.