Sorting Through Waste Management Literature: A Text Mining Approach to a Literature Review

Ksenia Silchenko, Roberto Del Gobbo, Nicola Castellano, Bruno Maria Franceschetti, Virginia Tosi and Monia La Verghetta
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Ksenia Silchenko: University of Macerata, Italy
Roberto Del Gobbo: University of Macerata, Italy
Nicola Castellano: University of Macerata, Italy
Bruno Maria Franceschetti: University of Macerata, Italy
Virginia Tosi: University of Macerata, Italy
Monia La Verghetta: University of Macerata, Italy

from University of Primorska, Faculty of Management Koper

Abstract: With sustainability and management of waste as focus of multiple disciplines, there is still a considerable gap in the academic literature in regard to the definition of “waste management”. The present research addresses the issue of a substantial lack of an acceptable interdisciplinary definition of waste management by means of synthesizing existing literature on the matter and identifying the most recurrent and relevant waste management concepts by applying the method of text mining. The results allow gaining a deeper understanding of (1) the typical concepts of each scientific discipline that studies waste management, (2) cross-disciplinary concept differences and similarities, and (3) the concept networks that can become potential building blocks of the waste management studies definition. Finally, a number of future research directions and propositions are suggested.

Keywords: waste management; literature review; text mining; network analysis. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2015
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