Urban Recycling Cooperatives Building resilient communities

• Auteur principal: Gutberlet, Jutta (auth)
• Format: Électronique Chapitre de livre
• Langue: anglais
• Publié: Taylor & Francis 2016
• Collection: Routledge Contemporary Russia and Eastern Europe Series
• Sujets: Research & development management; Economics; Development economics & emerging economies; Brazil; Built Environment; Cooperatives; Innovation; Knowledge; Latin America; megacities; Planning; Recycling; Regional Development; Regional Science; Regional Studies; Resilience; Richard Florida; RSA; RSA Conference; recycling cooperatives; Sally Hardy; São Paulo; Smart Cities; Spatial Econometrics; Spatial Economics; Technology; Technopoles; Territory; Territory, Politics, Governance; The City; Urban Planning; Urban Studies; Urban Systems
• Accès en ligne: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

Résumé

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. 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 dealing with waste; and what power interactions become manifest over issues of accessing and managing waste? In recent years informal cooperatives have emerged, devoted to recycling household and business waste before reclassifying it and redirecting it to the authorities. Hence, these workers are able to reclaim significant amounts of natural resources and thus contribute to the saving of resources and lessened waste management expenditures. With particular reference to the Brazilian megalopolis of São Paulo, this book describes this paradigm shift in the general understanding of waste as unwanted discard towards the recognition of waste as a resource that must be recovered for reuse or recycling. It would be of interest to students and policy makers working in international development and waste management.

Description matérielle

1 electronic resource (188 p.)

ISBN

9781315686523
9781317415404
9780367873677
9781138921160

Accès

Open Access