Overview

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.

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Author:   Isa Baud ,  Johan Post ,  Christine Furedy
Publisher:   Springer
Imprint:   Springer
Edition:   Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2004
Volume:   76
Dimensions:   Width: 15.50cm , Height: 1.70cm , Length: 23.50cm
Weight:   0.492kg
ISBN:  

9789048165605

ISBN 10:   9048165601
Pages:   309
Publication Date:   07 December 2010
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Out of stock  
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Table of Contents

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.

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