SOARES, Diego; MARQUES, Halle; CHAVES, Otávio    ZAGO, Valéria. Diagnosis for the optimization of the solid waste management system in the Center-South Region of the Belo Horizonte city: an analysis of stengths and weaknesses, opportunities and threats. []. , 10, pp.319-343. ISSN 2182-1267.  https://doi.org/10.17127/got/2016.10.015.

This article is an analysis of the solid waste management in Central-South region of Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais. The study aimed to evaluate the weaknesses, opportunities and threats to the system to then propose improvements. The justification is on the difficulties faced by the management of the collection system, designed in such a way that does not integrate, as it should, technical elements to the social, economic, political and spatial characteristics of the territory. Some of these features refer to a territory with a considerable social contrast, that is a political and economic hub of the state and that concentrates high flows of people and products in the metropolitan region of Belo Horizonte. For the analysis was performed an extensive collection of data from field diagnostic and through reports and documents of various official bodies, such as municipal Superintendence of Urban Sanitation. In a first step the information were handled descriptively and some of them were spatialized in a GIS (Geographic Information System). In a second step, contributes to perform an analysis SWOT (Strengths, Weaknesses, Opportunities and Threats) which indicated issues to be covered in order to optimize the system. One of the challenges indicated was the need to integrate the management system of the region with the management systems of neighboring regions, which can request a more collaborative urban planning.

: Urban Planning; SWOT Analysis; Solid Waste; Integrated Management.

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