1st Edition
Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship Urban Poverty Reduction in Latin America
By Jutta Gutberlet
Copyright 2008
180 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
178 Pages
by
Routledge
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Environmental awareness and social mobilization is a growing issue in Latin America. This book discusses how co-operative 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.... Read more
Chapter 1 Waste no Waste; Chapter 2 Cities, Consumption and Disposable Society; Chapter 3 Surviving at the Urban Frontier; Chapter 4; Chapter 5; Chapter 6; Chapter 7 Conclusion;
Biography
Dr Jutta Gutberlet is Associate Professor and Director of the Communities Based Research Laboratory in the Department of Geography, University of Victoria, Canada.
'This engaging text adds to the growing body of critical work on waste in developing world cities. Gutberlet demonstrates a substantive commitment to both policy analysis centered on participatory community development and recycling in Brazil and more theoretical scholarly discussions about consumption, poverty reduction strategies and urban political ecology.' Garth Myers, University of Kansas, USA 'Overall, Recovering Resources - Recycling Citizenship makes a passionate argument for the urgent need to address problems of solid waste management and urban growth... the book makes a needed contribution to studies of the relationship between development, environmental conditions and informal economies in Latin America. This would be a useful book for scholars, planners and perhaps activists interested in urban development, waste management and informal waste collecting in the global south.' Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography
