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Volume 40, Issue 4 (2025)
GeoRes 2025, 40(4): 305-317 |
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Received: 2024/10/22 | Accepted: 2025/12/9 | Published: 2025/12/12
Received: 2024/10/22 | Accepted: 2025/12/9 | Published: 2025/12/12
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Lalehpour M, Sarvar H, Bordbar H, Salmanzadeh S. Urban Waste Management in Maragheh Using Grounded Theory. GeoRes 2025; 40 (4) :305-317
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1- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faclty of Humanities, University of Maragheh, Maragheh, Iran
2- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faclty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
3- Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
2- Department of Geography and Urban Planning, Faclty of Planning and Environmental Sciences, University of Tabriz, Tabriz, Iran
3- Department of Urban and Regional Planning and Design, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shahid Beheshti University, Tehran, Iran
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Aims: Urban waste management is one of the critical challenges facing medium-sized Iranian cities such as Maragheh. Population growth from 150,000 to 175,000, daily production of 120 tons of waste, and lack of technical infrastructure have doubled the necessity for adopting a comprehensive approach. This study aimed to analyze urban waste management planning in Maragheh and present a paradigm model based on grounded theory.
Methodology: The research employed a qualitative approach using Straussian grounded theory methodology and was conducted in 2025. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten key stakeholders, including urban managers, experts, citizens, and environmental activists. Purposive sampling continued until theoretical saturation. Analysis was conducted using three-stage coding with MAXQDA 2020 software, resulting in identification of 72 initial codes,17 secondary codes, 11 sub-categories, and 7 main categories.
Findings: The core phenomenon "sustainable development of urban waste management" was positioned within a paradigm model. Causal conditions included population pressures and infrastructure strengthening; contextual conditions encompassed management platforms and environmental culture; intervening conditions included implementation resistance and coordination deficiency; Strategies focused on integrated systems development and specialized centers; And consequences were identified in three dimensions: System performance improvement, environmental culture development, and sustainable development achievement.
Conclusion: Effective waste management requires systematic integrated transformation that synergizes technical, managerial, economic, social, and environmental dimensions.
Methodology: The research employed a qualitative approach using Straussian grounded theory methodology and was conducted in 2025. Data were collected through semi-structured interviews with ten key stakeholders, including urban managers, experts, citizens, and environmental activists. Purposive sampling continued until theoretical saturation. Analysis was conducted using three-stage coding with MAXQDA 2020 software, resulting in identification of 72 initial codes,17 secondary codes, 11 sub-categories, and 7 main categories.
Findings: The core phenomenon "sustainable development of urban waste management" was positioned within a paradigm model. Causal conditions included population pressures and infrastructure strengthening; contextual conditions encompassed management platforms and environmental culture; intervening conditions included implementation resistance and coordination deficiency; Strategies focused on integrated systems development and specialized centers; And consequences were identified in three dimensions: System performance improvement, environmental culture development, and sustainable development achievement.
Conclusion: Effective waste management requires systematic integrated transformation that synergizes technical, managerial, economic, social, and environmental dimensions.