Journal of Urban Environmental Management

Abstract Considering the global waste crisis and the pivotal role of education in promoting sustainable urban behaviors, identifying and elucidating the components of an urban waste management curriculum appears essential. Accordingly, the present study aimed to identify and clarify the components of an urban waste management curriculum. This study is a qualitative inquiry of the synthesis type (meta-aggregation). The main approach of the research was based on an inductive content analysis framework and Sandelowski and Barroso’s seven-stage model, including question formulation, systematic literature review, search and selection of articles, data extraction, analysis and synthesis of findings, quality control, and presentation of results. The study population consisted of all domestic and international studies published between 1995 and 2025, retrieved from reputable databases such as SID, MagIran, CIVILICA, ProQuest, ERIC, Sage, Elsevier, and Google Scholar. After screening and assessing the quality of articles using the CASP tool, 48 high-quality studies were ultimately selected for analysis. The findings indicated that the urban waste management curriculum is based on four main layers: the outer layer (policy and culture), encompassing alignment with laws, regulations, and public culture; the structural layer (management and technology), emphasizing infrastructure, resource management, and innovative technologies; the educational layer (learning and empowerment), focusing on practical skills training, social participation, and enhancing students’ responsibility; and the core layer (specialized knowledge and innovation), addressing specialized processes, management of specific wastes, and innovations based on the circular economy. The results of this study not only provide a layered model for designing an urban waste management curriculum but also offer an operational framework for implementation in schools and educational settings.

Abstract Evaluating the environmental and social effects of urban projects separately can never show the mutual effects of the environment and the social environment, in other words; At the same time that the environment affects the society, there is no escape from the effects of the society on itself, and vice versa. In this article; The social and environmental effects of the southernmost section of Imam Ali highway - the distance between Daulat Abad freeway and the Shahr Ray ring road and its uneven intersection with the Shahr Ray ring road - located in the 20th district of Tehran municipality, based on an integrated evaluation process with five stages of construction And the operation of the mentioned highway has been integrated. Also, environmental and social mutual effects using the innovative impact assessment matrix, based on the network analysis process in the form of Super Decision software and the Delphi method; And by presenting the social preference coefficient and the environmental preference coefficient, it has been estimated for all environmental and social parameters in both construction and operation phases of the mentioned project. Based on the comparison of the results obtained from the established matrix with the current matrices; by applying the above coefficients, it is possible to quantitatively estimate the mutual environmental and social effects of intervention measures and take a step towards achieving the goals of sustainable urban development.