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Strategic Action Plan Report
Chapter
3. Situation Analysis
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3.1 Preparing the Situation Analysis Report
Understanding the overall ‘situation’ as it exists, both in terms of waste related concerns and its
institutional mechanisms, is the first step of the Strategic Planning process. The purpose of the
Situation Analysis is to enable an effective mapping of external environmental challenges with
internal institutional capabilities and resources, and thereby drawing out an effective Strategic Action
Plan for PMC. The highlights of the same are explained in this chapter.
3.2 Application of DPSIR to Solid Waste
Keeping the perspective of managing all forms of solid waste generation in an integrated manner, the
DPSIR framework has been adopted to map the existing waste management of Pune. DPSIR
framework analyses the cause-effect relationships between interacting components of social,
economic and environmental systems all along the solid waste management system. The DPSIR
framework attempts to answer five questions that are essential towards understanding the interlinkages
between causative factors and resulting social and environmental impacts, so that
appropriate responses may be developed. The five questions are as follows:
In the solid waste management context,
1. What are the forces necessitating effective and integrated solid waste management?
2. What are the consequences for / impacts on the receiving environment and ecology?
3. What is being done about it and how effective are these actions?
4. What could be alternative future for unwarranted unsustainable management of solid waste?
5. What are the alternative actions to be taken?
3.3 Driving Forces
The solid waste management scenario is influenced by the level of economic activity happening in
the city. For example economic development of the region results into immigration, thus increasing
the population growth rate, increased consumption of resources and thereby the quantity of waste.
The distribution of the population in terms of the spread determines the load exerted on the system,
while the socio-economic profile of the population influences the characteristics of the waste being
generated.
The Driving forces of the solid waste management for the city of Pune have been discussed below in
the context of the following two most significant issues, namely:
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