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).