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Organising Waste in the City : International Perspectives on Narratives and Practices.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextPublisher: Bristol : Policy Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (256 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781447306382
Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 363.728091732
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Contents:
Intro -- Organising waste in the city -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city -- Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city -- Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices -- Waste governance and management practices -- Waste and environmental, economic and social justice -- Structure of the book -- Part I -- 2. The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes -- Introduction -- Wasteland as urban wilderness -- Urban biodiversity -- Wasteland and urban species richness -- Conclusion: valuing wasteland -- 3. The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua -- Introduction -- Narratives of waste from Managua -- Narratives of waste from Gothenburg -- Functions of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city -- Inverting waste infrastructures and opening up the heterotopias of the city -- Part II -- 4. When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand -- Introduction -- Governance landscapes -- Governing waste -- Stakeholder interactions -- Conclusion -- 5. Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice -- Introduction -- A close reading of waste management texts -- Global ideas on waste management -- Locally practised ideas of sustainable waste management -- Global ideas and local practice -- Conclusion -- Part III -- 6. Governance in a bottle -- Introduction -- Snapshots of Italian waste policy -- Ethnography of a non-human in an actor-network taking care of non-humans -- Research setting and techniques -- Conclusion.
7. Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment -- Introduction -- Public and private interests in waste management -- Developments in the Dutch waste management sector -- Issues with hybrid organisations in waste management -- Conclusion -- 8. Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste -- Introduction -- Sweden's efforts to climb the waste hierarchy -- Changing the sociomateriality of waste -- Designing sociomateriality in practice -- Waste management as a critical urban infrastructure service -- Conclusion -- Part IV -- 9. Cairo's contested waste: the Zabaleen's local practices and privatisation policies -- Introduction -- History of the Zabaleen rubbish collectors -- Privatisation of Cairo's waste management system -- Impact of the privatised waste management system -- Swine flu pandemic and the slaughtering of the Zabaleen's pigs -- Future of privatised waste management -- Conclusion -- 10. Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland -- Introduction -- Narratives: socioenvironmental narratives and the community -- Governance: ecological modernisation and the state -- Emergence of the Irish state's regional waste plans -- The 2000 Environmental Protection Agency millennium report -- Community response to waste regional plans: -- governance and waste management disputes in Ireland -- Conclusion: governmentality and waste -- 11. Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK -- Introduction -- Concept of environmental justice -- Waste and environmental justice -- UK municipal waste policy -- Waste and environmental justice in a disadvantaged area of Bristol, UK -- Conclusion.
12. Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city -- Introduction -- Global narratives of waste translated into local practices -- Waste narratives and infrastructures for more sustainable urban transformations -- Transition from a 'wasting less' narrative to 'wasting less' practices -- Waste narratives, infrastructures, governance and -- power -- Future policy implications -- Index.
Summary: 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.
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Intro -- Organising waste in the city -- Contents -- List of figures and tables -- Figures -- Tables -- Abbreviations -- Notes on contributors -- Acknowledgements -- 1. Introduction: narratives of organising waste in the city -- Spaces, places and sites of waste in the city -- Global waste discourses and narratives shaping local practices -- Waste governance and management practices -- Waste and environmental, economic and social justice -- Structure of the book -- Part I -- 2. The ecological and environmental significance of urban wastelands and drosscapes -- Introduction -- Wasteland as urban wilderness -- Urban biodiversity -- Wasteland and urban species richness -- Conclusion: valuing wasteland -- 3. The function of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city: narratives from Gothenburg and Managua -- Introduction -- Narratives of waste from Managua -- Narratives of waste from Gothenburg -- Functions of waste urban infrastructures as heterotopias of the city -- Inverting waste infrastructures and opening up the heterotopias of the city -- Part II -- 4. When clean and green meets the Emerald Isle: contrasting waste governance narratives in Ireland and New Zealand -- Introduction -- Governance landscapes -- Governing waste -- Stakeholder interactions -- Conclusion -- 5. Waste in translation: global ideas of urban waste management in local practice -- Introduction -- A close reading of waste management texts -- Global ideas on waste management -- Locally practised ideas of sustainable waste management -- Global ideas and local practice -- Conclusion -- Part III -- 6. Governance in a bottle -- Introduction -- Snapshots of Italian waste policy -- Ethnography of a non-human in an actor-network taking care of non-humans -- Research setting and techniques -- Conclusion.

7. Hybrid organisations in waste management: public and private organisations in a deregulated market environment -- Introduction -- Public and private interests in waste management -- Developments in the Dutch waste management sector -- Issues with hybrid organisations in waste management -- Conclusion -- 8. Waste management companies: critical urban infrastructural services that design the sociomateriality of waste -- Introduction -- Sweden's efforts to climb the waste hierarchy -- Changing the sociomateriality of waste -- Designing sociomateriality in practice -- Waste management as a critical urban infrastructure service -- Conclusion -- Part IV -- 9. Cairo's contested waste: the Zabaleen's local practices and privatisation policies -- Introduction -- History of the Zabaleen rubbish collectors -- Privatisation of Cairo's waste management system -- Impact of the privatised waste management system -- Swine flu pandemic and the slaughtering of the Zabaleen's pigs -- Future of privatised waste management -- Conclusion -- 10. Ecomodern discourse and localised narratives: waste policy, community mobilisation and governmentality in Ireland -- Introduction -- Narratives: socioenvironmental narratives and the community -- Governance: ecological modernisation and the state -- Emergence of the Irish state's regional waste plans -- The 2000 Environmental Protection Agency millennium report -- Community response to waste regional plans: -- governance and waste management disputes in Ireland -- Conclusion: governmentality and waste -- 11. Waste collection as an environmental justice issue: a case study of a neighbourhood in Bristol, UK -- Introduction -- Concept of environmental justice -- Waste and environmental justice -- UK municipal waste policy -- Waste and environmental justice in a disadvantaged area of Bristol, UK -- Conclusion.

12. Conclusions: framing the organising of waste in the city -- Introduction -- Global narratives of waste translated into local practices -- Waste narratives and infrastructures for more sustainable urban transformations -- Transition from a 'wasting less' narrative to 'wasting less' practices -- Waste narratives, infrastructures, governance and -- power -- Future policy implications -- Index.

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.

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