ENVIRONMENTAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGY IN THE PLANNING REGIONS UNDER THE EFFECT OF CONTINUOUS OUTPUT OF THE SOLID WASTES

Abstract

The agricultural and municipal solid wastes are considered one of the main problems on the national, regional, and local level in Egypt. The main objective of this research is to construct environmental development strategic plan for the planning regions under continual generation of solid wastes. Data collection, manipulation, field study, and spatial analysis are carried out. Two sources of raw data were used for constructing the needed data base in this research. The first is the Central Agency for Public Mobilization and Statistics and the second is Economic Affairs Sector in the Ministry of Agriculture and Land Reclamation in Egypt. Field study for acquainting with the municipal solid wastes and its components in the local level in Egypt was carried through the summer season of 2010. Berk El Khyam village, Markaz Kerdasa, 6 Oct. Governorate was selected to be the core area of the field study. Ten points of planning principles and four planning alternatives were devised for environmental development strategy. The main recommendation is keeping in mind the ten principles and the four alternatives at preparation processes of the environmental development strategy for the regional planning.