Solid Waste Management and Recycling Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya /

• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Baud, Isa (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Post, Johan (Επιμελητής έκδοσης), Furedy, Christine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: Dordrecht : Springer Netherlands, 2004.
• Σειρά: GeoJournal Library, 76
• Θέματα: Environment.; Geography.; Environmental management.; Air pollution.; Atmospheric Protection/Air Quality Control/Air Pollution.; Environmental Management.; Geography, general.

 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. 

 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.