Policy-driven municipal solid waste network optimization under carbon regulation: a risk-informed MILP framework for a post-conflict recovery city
Jamil Hallak, AH Abdul Hafez · 2026
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Jamil Hallak and AH Abdul Hafez presented a 2026 planning model for rebuilding waste services in Idlib Governorate in northwest Syria, a region recovering from conflict. Their mathematical model chooses where to place transfer stations, treatment plants, waste-to-energy facilities, and landfills while weighing cost, carbon emissions, and two kinds of risk. Formal local data were scarce, so the case drew on field information, geographic analysis, and judgments from eleven experts.
The preferred design opened three transfer stations, two treatment facilities, one energy plant, and two landfills, producing a large yearly electricity output. Carbon taxes, subsidies, and permit trading mainly shifted costs rather than the network itself. Readers get a template for infrastructure planning where records and institutions are thin.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Jamil Hallak, AH Abdul Hafez |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 78868 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |