Urban recycling cooperatives building resilient communities
Solid waste is a major urban challenge worldwide and decisions over which technologies or methods to apply can have beneficial or detrimental long-term consequences. Inappropriate management of solid waste can lead to damaging environmental impacts, particularly in the megacities of the Global South...
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| Formato: | Libro electrónico |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London ; New York :
Routledge
2016.
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| Colección: | Routledge advances in regional economics, science and policy.
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| Ver en Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull: | https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009421119706719 |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 1. Waste governance : an introduction
- 2. Situated theoretical framework for waste governance
- 3. Participatory community-based research : theory and praxis
- 4. From hazardous 'informal' recycling to decent working conditions
- 5. The social aspects of waste
- 6. Health and risk factors for waste pickers
- 7. Recycling the organic fraction of household waste
- 8. Contributions to climate change mitigation : environmental benefits from the work of waste pickers
- 9. Different ways of managing waste : from neoliberal to cooperative approaches
- 10. Final outlook : a world without waste.
