Urban Recycling Cooperatives: Building Resilient Communities

ISBN-13: 9780367873677 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 176 str.

Jutta Gutberlet

Opis

Urban Recycling Cooperatives explores the multiple narratives and interdisciplinary nature of waste studies, drawing attention to the pressing social, economic and environmental challenges related to waste management. The book asks questions such as: how do we define waste and our relation to it; who is involved in dealin

Spis treści

Table of Contents

Chapter 1: Waste governance: an introduction

Chapter 2: Situated theoretical framework for waste governance

Chapter 3: Participatory community-based research: theory and praxis

Chapter 4: From hazardous informal recycling to decent working conditions

Chapter 5: The social aspects of waste

Chapter 6: Health and risk factors for informal waste pickers

Chapter 7: Recycling the organic fraction of household waste

Chapter 8: Contributions to climate change mitigation: Environmental benefits from the work of waste pickers

Chapter 9: Different ways of managing waste: from neoliberal to cooperative approaches

Chapter 10: Final outlook: a world without waste

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O autorze

Jutta Gutberlet is Associate Professor in the Geography Department at the University of Victoria, Canada.