Department of Building and Real Estate, The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hung Hom, Kowloon, Hong Kong.
Waste Manag. 2011 Apr;31(4):670-9. doi: 10.1016/j.wasman.2010.10.030. Epub 2010 Dec 18.
Research interests in addressing construction and demolition (C&D) waste management issues have resulted in a large amount of publications during the last decade. This study demonstrates that there is no systematic examination on the research development in literature in the discipline of C&D waste management. This study presents the latest research trend in the discipline through analyzing the publications from 2000 to 2009 in eight major international journals. The analysis is conducted on the number of papers published annually, main authors' contributions, research methods and data analysis methods adopted, and research topics covered. The results exhibit an increasing research interest in C&D waste management in recent years. Researchers from developed economies have contributed significantly to the development of the research in the discipline. Some developing countries such as Malaysia and China have also been making good efforts in promoting C&D waste management research. The findings from this study also indicate that survey and case study are major methods for data collection, and the data are mostly processed through descriptive analysis. It is anticipated that more future studies on C&D waste management will be led by researchers from developing economies, where construction works will remain their major economic activities. On the other hand, more sophisticated modeling and simulating techniques have been used effectively in a number of studies on C&D waste management research, and this is considered a major methodology for future research in the discipline. C&D waste management will continue to be a hot research topic in the future, in particularly, the importance of human factors in C&D waste management has emerged as a new challenging topic.
研究兴趣解决建筑和拆除（C&D）废物管理问题，在过去十年中产生了大量的出版物。本研究表明，在 C&D 废物管理学科的文献中，没有对研究发展进行系统的检查。本研究通过分析 2000 年至 2009 年在八个主要国际期刊上发表的论文，展示了该学科的最新研究趋势。分析内容包括每年发表的论文数量、主要作者的贡献、采用的研究方法和数据分析方法以及涵盖的研究主题。研究结果表明，近年来人们对 C&D 废物管理的研究兴趣日益增加。来自发达经济体的研究人员为该学科的研究发展做出了重大贡献。一些发展中国家，如马来西亚和中国，也在努力推动 C&D 废物管理研究。本研究的结果还表明，调查和案例研究是数据收集的主要方法，数据主要通过描述性分析进行处理。预计，未来将有更多来自发展中国家的研究人员主导 C&D 废物管理研究，因为建筑工程将继续是这些国家的主要经济活动。另一方面，在一些 C&D 废物管理研究中，已经有效地使用了更复杂的建模和模拟技术，这被认为是该学科未来研究的主要方法。C&D 废物管理将继续成为未来的热门研究课题，特别是在 C&D 废物管理中人类因素的重要性已成为一个新的具有挑战性的课题。
