Austrian Post 5.99 DPD courier 6.49 GLS courier 4.49

Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship

Language EnglishEnglish
Book Hardback
Book Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship Jutta Gutberlet
Libristo code: 01371683
Publishers Taylor & Francis Ltd, July 2008
Rapid urban growth induces global environmental change, particularly when it comes to production, co... Full description
? points 554 b
234.41 včetně DPH
In stock at our supplier Shipping in 19-25 days
Austria Delivery to Austria

30-day return policy


You might also be interested in


Multiscale Modeling of Particle Interactions Michael King / Hardback
common.buy 210.65
Extinction Steve Parker / Paperback
common.buy 17.87
Leistungsmanagement Im Krankenhaus: G-Drgs Ulrich Vetter / Hardback
common.buy 53.51
1, 2 at the Zoo Sue DiCicco / Board book
common.buy 8.66
Die Agrarpreispolitik der DDR. Theodor Berthold / Paperback
common.buy 25.69
Negotiating Diplomacy in the New Europe Stefanos Katsikas / Hardback
common.buy 220.61
Arguing Fundamental Rights Agustín J. Menéndez / Hardback
common.buy 134.22
Desis in the House Sunaina Maira / Hardback
common.buy 99.22
V. Laider Max Beerbohm / Paperback
common.buy 21.83

Rapid urban growth induces global environmental change, particularly when it comes to production, consumption and the generation of waste. Cities worldwide produce much more garbage and other waste than they can manage: consequently solid waste is transported over long distances, transferred to other regions or simply not collected at all. In most South American cities, 20-50 percent of household waste is not collected. This growing mass of waste has direct impacts on human well being, bringing about serious threats to health but also land use conflicts as governments decide on new locations for sanitary landfills or incinerators often beside poor neighbourhoods.Environmental awareness and social mobilisation is a growing issue in Latin America. This book discusses how cooperative recycling practices have been increasingly used as a strategy to contest both the waste problem and urban poverty. Selective waste collection and sorting materials out of the garbage stream has become a widespread survival strategy for the economically excluded population. While severe and chronic occupational health problems and risks are very common among the recycling workers, thousands of people exclusively depend on accessing these resources.By examining experiences from Brazil and other Latin American countries, this book questions what can be done to improve the environment and livelihoods for these excluded citizens, examines the specific health and risk implications and looks at the many innovative recycling co-ops and associations which have recently emerged, creating an exciting new form of solidarity economy. In doing so, on the one hand, it uncovers the landscapes of despair populated by the urban marginalized, while on the other hand, the landscapes of hope, where solidarity and collaboration make a pathway to a better way of life.

About the book

Full name Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship
Language English
Binding Book - Hardback
Date of issue 2008
Number of pages 178
EAN 9780754672197
ISBN 0754672190
Libristo code 01371683
Weight 490
Dimensions 156 x 234 x 11
Give this book today
It's easy
1 Add to cart and choose Deliver as present at the checkout 2 We'll send you a voucher 3 The book will arrive at the recipient's address

Login

Log in to your account. Don't have a Libristo account? Create one now!

 
mandatory
mandatory

Don’t have an account? Discover the benefits of having a Libristo account!

With a Libristo account, you'll have everything under control.

Create a Libristo account