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Positioning Sulaymaniyah in Global Municipal Solid Waste Generation: Income-Stratified Benchmarking and Multivariate Analysis of 31 Cities

Abstract Municipal solid waste (MSW) generation is increasingly shaped by urban growth, consumption, socioeconomic conditions, and local management capacity, yet city-level comparisons remain difficult because reporting systems and urban structures differ substantially. This stud...

Population Growth and Waste Generation Dynamics: Forecasting Evidence from Sulaymaniyah Governorate, Iraq (2016–2030)

Abstract Municipal solid waste forecasting is essential for infrastructure planning, budgeting, and environmentally sustainable urban management, particularly in rapidly growing cities with limited long historical records. This study investigates annual municipal solid waste gene...