Organising Waste In The City

Author : Zapata, María José,Hall, Michael
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-05-30
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781447306382

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Organising waste in the city by Zapata, María José,Hall, Michael Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organising waste in cities, which has often been positioned in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and physical science approaches. It emphasises the ways in which the notion of waste, and the narratives and discourses associated with it, have been socially constructed with corresponding implications for waste governance and local waste handling practices. Organising waste in the city takes a broad and international approach to the ways in which the issue of waste is framed, and brings together narratives from cities as diverse as Amsterdam, Bristol, Cairo, Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Managua. Organised into four main sections and with an integrative introduction and conclusion, the book not only provides new insights into the hidden stories of urban and municipal household solid waste and waste landscapes, but also connects concerns regarding urban waste to such issues as globalisation, governance, urban ecology, and social, economic and environmental justice.

Author : María José Zapata Campos,Colin Michael Hall
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Medical
ISBN : 9781447306375

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Organising waste in the city by María José Zapata Campos,Colin Michael Hall Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organising waste in cities, which has often been positioned in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and physical science approaches. It emphasises the ways in which the notion of waste, and the narratives and discourses associated with it, have been socially constructed with corresponding implications for waste governance and local waste handling practices. Organising waste in the city takes a broad and international approach to the ways in which the issue of waste is framed, and brings together narratives from cities as diverse as Amsterdam, Bristol, Cairo, Gothenburg, Helsingborg and Managua. Organised into four main sections and with an integrative introduction and conclusion, the book not only provides new insights into the hidden stories of urban and municipal household solid waste and waste landscapes, but also connects concerns regarding urban waste to such issues as globalisation, governance, urban ecology, and social, economic and environmental justice.

Author : Maria Jose Zapata,Mariía José Zapata Campos,Colin Michael Hall
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN : 1447310896

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Organising Waste in the City by Maria Jose Zapata,Mariía José Zapata Campos,Colin Michael Hall Pdf

This book offers a critical perspective on the issue of organising waste in cities, which has often been positioned in terms of relatively narrow engineering, economic and physical science approaches. It emphasises the ways in which the notion of waste, and the narratives and discourses associated with it have been socially constructed with corresponding implications for waste governance and local waste handling practices.

Author : Lily Baum Pollans
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323700

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Resisting Garbage by Lily Baum Pollans Pdf

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today. Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers’ environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this “weak recycling waste regime,” Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston’s local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.

Author : Darshini Mahadevia
Publisher : Concept Publishing Company
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Recycling (Waste)
ISBN : 8180695220

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Solid Waste Management in Indian Cities by Darshini Mahadevia Pdf

Author : Matthew Gandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014-06-03
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134162703

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Recycling and the Politics of Urban Waste by Matthew Gandy Pdf

The affluence of western society has given rise to unprecedented quantities of waste, presenting one of the most intractable environmental problems for contemporary society. This book examines recycling and municipal waste management in three major cities: London, New York and Hamburg. A range of political and economic issues are examined to illustrate how any reduction in the size of the waste stream in order to achieve more equitable and environmentally sustainable patterns of resource use is incompatible with the current emphasis in the use of the market for environmental protection. The case studies show how, contrary to the hopes of many environmentalists and policy makers, municipal waste management is moving steadily towards the profitable option of incineration with energy recovery, rather than the recycling of materials or waste reduction at source. The evidence suggests that the achievement of a more sustainable pattern of recycling and waste management policy would demand a fundamental change in public policy, to give government a more active role in environmental protection.

Author : Supriya Routh,Vando Borghi
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-04-20
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317445241

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Workers and the Global Informal Economy by Supriya Routh,Vando Borghi Pdf

The global financial crisis and subsequent increase in social inequality has led in many cases to a redrawing of the boundaries between formal and informal work. This interdisciplinary volume explores the role of informal work in today’s global economy, presenting economic, legal, sociological, historical, anthropological, political and cultural perspectives on the topic. Workers and the Global Informal Economy explores varying definitions of informality in the backdrop of neo-liberal market logic, exploring how it manifests itself in different regions around the world, and its relationship with formal work. This volume demonstrates how neo-liberalism has been instrumental in accelerating informality and has resulted in the increasingly precarious position of the informal worker. Using different methodological approaches and regional focuses, this book considers key questions such as whether workers exercise choice over their work; how constrained such choices are; how social norms shape such choices; how work affects their well-being and agency; and what role culture plays in the determination of informality. This interdisciplinary collection will be of interest to policy-makers and researchers engaging with informality from different disciplinary and regional perspectives.

Author : Tom Borrup
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 188 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2020-11-29
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000245080

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The Power of Culture in City Planning by Tom Borrup Pdf

The Power of Culture in City Planning focuses on human diversity, strengths, needs, and ways of living together in geographic communities. The book turns attention to the anthropological definition of culture, encouraging planners in both urban and cultural planning to focus on characteristics of humanity in all their variety. It calls for a paradigm shift, re-positioning city planners’ "base maps" to start with a richer understanding of human cultures. Borrup argues for cultural master plans in parallel to transportation, housing, parks, and other specialized plans, while also changing the approach of city comprehensive planning to put people or "users" first rather than land "uses" as does the dominant practice. Cultural plans as currently conceived are not sufficient to help cities keep pace with dizzying impacts of globalization, immigration, and rapidly changing cultural interests. Cultural planners need to up their game, and enriching their own and city planners’ cultural competencies is only one step. Both planning practices have much to learn from one another and already overlap in more ways than most recognize. This book highlights some of the strengths of the lesser-known practice of cultural planning to help forge greater understanding and collaboration between the two practices, empowering city planners with new tools to bring about more equitable communities. This will be an important resource for students, teachers, and practitioners of city and cultural planning, as well as municipal policymakers of all stripes.

Author : OECD
Publisher : OECD Publishing
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2016-09-20
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789264256385

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Extended Producer Responsibility Updated Guidance for Efficient Waste Management by OECD Pdf

This report updates the 2001 Guidance Manual for Governments on Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), which provided a broad overview of the key issues, general considerations, and the potential benefits and costs associated with producer responsibility for managing the waste.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 228 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2010
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 1849711704

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Solid Waste Management in the World's Cities by Anonim Pdf

"In a rapidly urbanizing global society, solid waste management will be a key challenge facing all the world's cities. This publication provides a fresh perspective and new data on one of the biggest issues in urban development.

Author : Sylvia Chant,Cathy McIlwaine
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2015-12-22
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781317950370

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Cities, Slums and Gender in the Global South by Sylvia Chant,Cathy McIlwaine Pdf

Developing regions are set to account for the vast majority of future urban growth, and women and girls will become the majority inhabitants of these locations in the Global South. This is one of the first books to detail the challenges facing poorer segments of the female population who commonly reside in ‘slums’. It explores the variegated disadvantages of urban poverty and slum-dwelling from a gender perspective. This book revolves around conceptualisation of the ‘gender-urban-slum interface’ which explains key elements to understanding women’s experiences in slum environments. It has a specific focus on the ways in which gender inequalities are can be entrenched but also alleviated. Included is a review of the demographic factors which are increasingly making cities everywhere ‘feminised spaces’, such as increased rural-urban migration among women, demographic ageing, and rising proportions of female-headed households in urban areas. Discussions focus in particular on education, paid and unpaid work, access to land, property and urban services, violence, intra-urban mobility, and political participation and representation. This book will be of use to researchers and professionals concerned with gender and development, urbanisation and rural-urban migration.

Author : Lillian A. Gluckman
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 104 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 1971
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN : SRLF:A0013007042

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Planning for Solid Waste Management by Lillian A. Gluckman Pdf

Author : Ashok Kumar,Sanjeev Vidyarthi,Poonam Prakash
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 311 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2020-07-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781000091212

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City Planning in India, 1947–2017 by Ashok Kumar,Sanjeev Vidyarthi,Poonam Prakash Pdf

This book is a comprehensive history of city planning in post-independence India. It explores how the nature and orientation of city planning have evolved in India’s changing sociopolitical context over the past hundred or so years. The book situates India’s experience within a historical framework in order to illustrate continuities and disjunctions between the pre- and post-independent Indian laws, policies, and programs for city planning and development. It focuses on the development, scope, and significance of professional planning work in the midst of rapid economic transition, migration, social disparity, and environmental degradation. The volume also highlights the need for inclusive planning processes that can provide clean air, water, and community spaces to large, diverse, and fast growing communities. Detailed and insightful, this volume will be of interest to researchers and students of public administration, civil engineering, architecture, geography, economics, and sociology. It will also be useful for policy makers and professionals working in the areas of town and country planning.

Author : John Nolen
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2014-08-07
Category : Architecture
ISBN : 9781317620372

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New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns and Villages by John Nolen Pdf

John Nolen’s New Ideals in the Planning of Cities, Towns, and Villages is the most thorough assessment of city planning written by an American practitioner before 1920. It records the interplay of urban reform in Europe and the United States, the rise of the planning expert, the design of new towns, and the technique for directing urban expansion on systematic lines. Most important, it documents the blueprint for investing the "peace dividend" of the Great War to make urban life "more fit for democracy". Written for men fighting to make the world safe for democracy, New Ideals revealed how the domestic part of the peace program could justify their sacrifice. The wartime housing initiative had improved the living conditions of industrial workers and the same public regulation and control of the layout and character of residential neighbourhoods could provide what "men of service expect to find on their return, a new and better type of workman’s home." While New Ideals strained towards the utopian, experience tempered Nolen’s expectations and the high aims of the book were not immediately realised in a post-war society seeking a return to pre-war normalcy. However in the last decade, Nolen’s planned communities have been closely studied as the demand for pedestrian-oriented neighbourhoods set on sustainable lines has moved from novelty to policy. New Ideals is an important text not only for its design template, but also its aspirations. Nolen’s call to "make cites that will serve the needs--physical, economic, and spiritual-- of all people" lays at the heart of the city planning profession and the lessons Nolen imparted inform a new generation planning cities to be both resilient and just.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 852 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 1965
Category : Bus lines
ISBN : UOM:39015023129631

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Metropolitan Management, Transportation and Planning by Anonim Pdf