Waste And The City

Author : Colin McFarlane
Publisher : Verso Books
Page : 378 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2023-08-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781839760730

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Waste and the City by Colin McFarlane Pdf

In an age of pandemics the relationship between the health of the city and good sanitation has never been more important. Waste and the City is a call to action on one of modern urban life's most neglected issues: sanitation infrastructure. The Covid-19 pandemic has laid bare the devastating consequences of unequal access to sanitation in cities across the globe. At this critical moment in global public health, Colin McFarlane makes the urgent case for Sanitation for All. The book outlines the worldwide sanitation crisis and offers a vision for a renewed, equitable investment in sanitation that democratises and socialises the modern city. Adopting Henri Lefebvre's concept of 'the right to the city', it uses the notion of 'citylife' to reframe the discourse on sanitation from a narrowly-defined policy discussion to a question of democratic right to public life and health. In doing so, the book shows that sanitation is an urbanizing force whose importance extends beyond hygiene to the very foundation of urban social life.

Author : Savita Hiremath
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9788195131730

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Endlessly Green by Savita Hiremath Pdf

Endlessly Green looks at the history, the science and the art of composting and sustainable waste management through a kaleidoscope of philosophical, moral and ethical intricacies. The author digs into her rich pool of experiential learnings and raw inputs gathered through a decade of research, legwork and fearless execution. This engaging field guide equips community volunteers, activists, students, SWM practitioners and professionals with practical inputs on segregation, composting and organic gardening/farming, making sustainability imaginable in a concrete jungle. In doing so, it helps individuals discover the possibilities of bringing about a change in their environment by engaging their own environmental sensibilities. Endlessly Green is an extraordinary celebration of things small and significant and the fight against waste, culminating in a replicable and scalable end-to-end solution.

Author : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2004-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780822972686

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Garbage In The Cities by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

As recently as the 1880s, most American cities had no effective means of collecting and removing the mountains of garbage, refuse, and manure-over a thousand tons a day in New York City alone-that clogged streets and overwhelmed the senses of residents. In his landmark study, Garbage in the Cities, Martin Melosi offered the first history of efforts begun in the Progressive Era to clean up this mess. Since it was first published, Garbage in the Cities has remained one of the best historical treatments of the subject. This thoroughly revised and updated edition includes two new chapters that expand the discussion of developments since World War I. It also offers a discussion of the reception of the first edition, and an examination of the ways solid waste management has become more federally regulated in the last quarter of the twentieth century. Melosi traces the rise of sanitation engineering, accurately describes the scope and changing nature of the refuse problem in U.S. cities, reveals the sometimes hidden connections between industrialization and pollution, and discusses the social agendas behind many early cleanliness programs. Absolutely essential reading for historians, policy analysts, and sociologists, Garbage in the Cities offers a vibrant and insightful analysis of this fascinating topic.

Author : William Gilmore Simms
Publisher : Univ of South Carolina Press
Page : 158 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9781643361284

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A City Laid Waste by William Gilmore Simms Pdf

“A graphic account of the horrors, the brutality and sometimes wanton destruction of warfare, particularly of civil war.” —Charleston (SC) Post and Courier In the first reissue of these documents since 1865, A City Laid Waste captures in riveting detail the destruction of South Carolina’s capital city. William Gilmore Simms (1806-1870), a native South Carolinian and one of the nation’s foremost men of letters, was in Columbia and witnessed firsthand the city’s capture and destruction. A renowned novelist and poet, who was also an experienced journalist and historian, Simms deftly recorded the events of February 1865 in a series of eyewitness accounts published in the first ten issues of the Columbia Phoenix and reprinted here. His record of burned buildings constitutes the most authoritative information available on the extent of the damage. Simms historian David Aiken provides a historical and literary context for Simms’s reportage. In his introduction Aiken clarifies the significance of Simms’s articles and draws attention to factors most important for understanding the occupation’s impact on the city of Columbia. “A shrewd viewer of the war scene in Columbia, famed Southern writer William Gilmore Simms published stinging, courageous exposés of the doings of the Northern forces, even when threatened with arrest. The restoration of his candid firsthand accounts of the destruction wrought by Sherman’s forces against the South Carolina capitol and its inhabitants is a great service to all who study and appreciate Southern history and literature.” —James Everett Kibler, author of Our Fathers’ Fields

Author : Susan Strasser
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2000-09
Category : History
ISBN : 0805065121

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Waste and Want by Susan Strasser Pdf

Originally published: New York: Metropolitan Books, 1999.

Author : George Edwin Waring
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 7 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 1895
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN : OCLC:476470553

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The Disposal of a City's Waste by George Edwin Waring Pdf

Author : Matthew Gandy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 160 pages
File Size : 41,7 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 : Zapata, María José,Hall, Michael
Publisher : Policy Press
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 43,9 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 : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 608 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Municipal services
ISBN : UOM:39076002379845

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The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

The authors examines water supply and waste disposal in U.S. cities from Colonial times to the present day.

Author : Lily Baum Pollans
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781477323724

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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 : Martin V. Melosi
Publisher : University of Pittsburgh Pre
Page : 372 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0822973375

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The Sanitary City by Martin V. Melosi Pdf

Immersed in their on-demand, highly consumptive, and disposable lifestyles, most urban Americans take for granted the technologies that provide them with potable water, remove their trash, and process their wastewater. These vital services, however, are the byproduct of many decades of development by engineers, sanitarians, and civic planners. In The Sanitary City, Martin V. Melosi assembles a comprehensive, thoroughly researched and referenced history of sanitary services in urban America. He examines the evolution of water supply, sewage systems, and solid waste disposal during three distinct eras: The Age of Miasmas (pre-1880); The Bacteriological Revolution (1880-1945); and The New Ecology (1945 to present-day). Originally published in 2000, this abridged edition includes updated text and bibliographic materials. The Sanitary City is an essential resource for those interested in environmental history, environmental engineering, science and technology, urban studies, and public health. Winner of: George Perkins Marsh Prize from the American Society for Environmental History Urban History Association Prize for the best book in North American Urban History Abel Wolman Prize from the Public Works Historical Society Sidney Edelstein Prize from the Society for the History of Technology

Author : Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-14
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781317554431

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Global Garbage by Christoph Lindner,Miriam Meissner Pdf

Global Garbage examines the ways in which garbage, in its diverse forms, is being produced, managed, experienced, imagined, circulated, concealed, and aestheticized in contemporary urban environments and across different creative and cultural practices. The book explores the increasingly complex relationship between globalization and garbage in locations such as Beirut, Detroit, Hong Kong, London, Los Angeles, Manchester, Naples, Paris, Rio de Janeiro and Tehran. In particular, the book examines how, and under what conditions, contemporary imaginaries of excess, waste, and abandonment perpetuate – but also sometimes counter – the imbalances of power that are frequently associated with the global metropolitan condition. This interdisciplinary collection will appeal to the fields of anthropology, architecture, film and media studies, geography, urban studies, sociology, and cultural analysis.

Author : Paul Showers
Publisher : Perfection Learning
Page : 32 pages
File Size : 49,5 Mb
Release : 2015-08-04
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 1680651609

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Where Does the Garbage Go? by Paul Showers Pdf

Explains how people create too much waste and how waste is now recycled and put into landfills.

Author : Steven Cohen,Guo Dong
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 504 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 2021-06-15
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780231551700

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The Sustainable City by Steven Cohen,Guo Dong Pdf

Living sustainably is not just about preserving the wilderness or keeping nature pristine. The transition to a green economy depends on cities. Economic, technological, and cultural forces are moving people out of rural areas and into urban areas. If we are to avert climate catastrophe, we will need our cities to coexist with nature without destroying it. Urbanization holds the key to long-term sustainability, reducing per capita environmental impacts while improving economic prosperity and social inclusion for current and future generations. The Sustainable City provides a broad and engaging overview of the urban systems of the twenty-first century. It approaches urban sustainability from the perspectives of behavioral change, organizational management, and public policy, looking at case studies of existing legislation, programs, and public-private partnerships that strive to align modern urban life and sustainability. The book synthesizes the disparate strands of sustainable city planning in an approachable and applicable guide that highlights how these issues touch our lives on a daily basis, including the transportation we take, the public health systems that protect us, where our energy comes from, and what becomes of our food waste. This second edition of The Sustainable City dives deeper into the financing of sustainable infrastructure and initiatives and puts additional emphasis on the roles that individual citizens and varied stakeholders can play. It also reviews current trends in urban inequality and discusses whether a model of sustainability that embraces a multidimensional approach to development and a multistakeholder approach to decision making can foster social inclusion. It features many more examples and new international case studies spanning the globe.

Author : Claire Eamer
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2017
Category : Refuse and refuse disposal
ISBN : 1554519187

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What a Waste! by Claire Eamer Pdf

Hold your nose while you read about the disgustingly fascinating world of garbage!