in metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. the pur...

Access to a sufficient amount of safe water is taken for granted in industrialised nations. Yet, as multiple incidents of contaminated water supplies show, citizens of highly industrialised nations such as Canada may not have access to safe water—the deadly E. coli outbreak in Waterton, Ontario, being but the most visible among many. Municipal engineers may find themselves between enemy lines a...

The abysmal state of and challenges in municipal solid waste management (MSWM) in urban India is the motivation of the present study. Urbanization contributes enhanced municipal solid waste (MSW) generation and unscientific handling of MSW degrades the urban environment and causes health hazards. In this paper, an attempt is made to evaluate the major parameters of MSWM, in addition to a compre...

Waste management is a complex and detailed process that involves evaluation of certain important factors, such as a geological, geotechnical, hydrological, hydrogeological, climate, urban management, environmental, along with social, cultural, and psychological parameters. Unfortunately, in Iran, there is minimal evaluation of initial parameters and in some cases even don’t exist. The purpose o...

In metropolitan development management, quality of public services is influential in every public sector to satisfaction of citizens on quality of services. Nowadays, satisfaction are with such important matters that should be considered in the planning, implementation, management and maintenance of many public services such as subway, transportation, traffics, parks, markets and so on. Th...

X. Chen, W. H. Hou, G. L. Song, and Q. H. Wang Research Center of Water Pollution Control Technology, Chinese Research Academy of Environment Sciences, Beijing 100012, China Department of Municipal Engineering, Shandong Urban&Rural Planning Design Institute, Jinan 250013, China Department of Life Science, Shandong University of Technology, Zibo 255049, China Department of Environmental Engineer...

Key Laboratory of Systems Biomedicine (Ministry of Education), School of Biomedical Engineering, Shanghai Jiao Tong University, Shanghai, 200240, China; Shanghai Lung Cancer Center, Shanghai Chest Hospital, Shanghai, 200030, China; NanoSystems Biology Cancer Center, California Institute of Technology, Pasadena, CA 91125; Division of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, California Institute of Te...