Al-Khatib Issam A, Abu Hammad Ahmad, Sharkas Othman A, Sato Chikashi
Institute of Environmental and Water Studies, Birzeit University, P.O. Box 14, Birzeit, West Bank, Palestine,
Environ Monit Assess. 2015 Apr;187(4):186. doi: 10.1007/s10661-015-4401-1. Epub 2015 Mar 18.
Palestinian inhabitants have disposed of their solid wastes at open dumpsites over the past 40 years without an adequate solid waste management (SWM) plans. Recently, the Palestinian Authority initiated SWM planning to establish controlled sanitary landfills, based on a participatory approach. The purpose of this study was to assess public concerns about existing solid waste dumpsites and public perceptions of sanitary landfill site selection. The study will also take into consideration the effect of diverse social, economic, and environmental related factors of the inhabitants on sitting suitable landfill sites in three Palestinian districts in the West Bank, namely, "Nablus," "Salfit," and "Ramallah and Al-Bireh." The results of this study showed that 64.9% of the sample population are aware of the problems and potential impacts associated with random dumpsites, and 41.6% think that they are suffering from the dumps. Among the environmental, socioeconomic, and political factors, the environmental factors, air pollution in particular, are thought be the most important consideration in selecting a landfill site. The "fairness in selecting a landfill site" was chosen to be one of the most important socioeconomic factors, possibly as a reaction to the Israeli occupation and subsequent land use restrictions in the West Bank, Palestinian territory.
在过去40年里，巴勒斯坦居民一直在露天垃圾场处理固体废弃物，却没有适当的固体废弃物管理（SWM）计划。最近，巴勒斯坦权力机构启动了SWM规划，以参与式方法为基础建立受控的卫生填埋场。本研究的目的是评估公众对现有固体废弃物垃圾场的担忧以及公众对卫生填埋场选址的看法。该研究还将考虑西岸三个巴勒斯坦地区，即“纳布卢斯”、“萨尔费特”和“拉马拉和比雷赫”居民的各种社会、经济和环境相关因素对合适填埋场选址的影响。本研究结果表明，64.9%的抽样人群意识到与随意垃圾场相关的问题和潜在影响，41.6%的人认为他们正受垃圾场之苦。在环境、社会经济和政治因素中，环境因素，尤其是空气污染，被认为是选择填埋场时最重要的考虑因素。“填埋场选址的公平性”被选为最重要的社会经济因素之一，这可能是对以色列占领以及随后在巴勒斯坦领土西岸土地使用限制的一种反应。
