Solid Waste Management and Recycling

Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya
1. Auflage. Softcover version of original hardcover Auflage 2004
ISBN: 978-90-481-6560-5
Verlag: Springer Netherlands

Buch, Englisch, Band 76, 309 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 487 g

Reihe: GeoJournal Library

This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.
Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it:
-utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis;
-provides embedded case study data;
-deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling;
-has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India);
-can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.

Zielgruppe

Professional/practitioner

Autoren/Hrsg.

Baud, Isa

Furedy, Christine

Post, Johan

Fachgebiete

• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Geographie: Allgemeines, Karten & Atlanten
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Umweltmanagement, Umweltökonomie
• Wirtschaftswissenschaften Wirtschaftssektoren & Branchen Energie- & Versorgungswirtschaft Entsorgungswirtschaft
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Angewandte Ökologie
• Geowissenschaften Umweltwissenschaften Abfallbeseitigung, Abfallentsorgung
• Technische Wissenschaften Umwelttechnik | Umwelttechnologie Luftreinhaltung

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions.- Markets, partnerships and sustainable development in solid waste management; raising the questions.- Collection, Transportation and Disposal of Urban Solid Waste.- Evolving partnerships in the collection of urban solid waste in the developing world.- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Hyderabad.- Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Nairobi.- Trial and error in privatisation; the case of Hyderabad’s solid waste management.- Reuse, Recovery and Recycling of Urban Inorganic Solid Waste.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste; modalities, commodity chains and sustainable development.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Hyderabad.- Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Nairobi.- Reuse of Urban Organic Solid Waste.- Urban organic solid waste: reuse practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries.- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad.- Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad.- Urban organic solid waste: practices in Nairobi.- Conclusions.- Government, market and community in urban solid waste management; problems and potentials in the transition to sustainable development.