Jutta Gutberlet

Urban Recycling Cooperatives

Building resilient communities

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 188
• Erscheinungstermin: 12. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 10mm
• Gewicht: 272g
• ISBN-13: 9780367873677
• ISBN-10: 0367873672
• Artikelnr.: 58441747

Autorenporträt

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

Inhaltsangabe

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
References