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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.
List 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.
Summary
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.
