Using Fuzzy Cognitive Maps approach to identify integrated waste management system characteristics

This paper outline how Fuzzy Cognitive Maps (FCM) can be applied as a tool in integrated waste management systems. FCM is a soft systems methodology for exploiting and analyzing human perceptions of a given system. During the research, the driving forces and impacts in the changes of waste management systems have been analyzed. Several types of FCM are known, and the authors' intention was to apply the FCM type III to describe the causality relations among the factors of the integrated waste management systems (IWMS).