Solid Waste Management and Recycling: Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya (GeoJournal Library Book 76)

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....Pages 1-18 Front Matter....Pages 19-19 Evolving partnerships in the collection of urban solid waste in the developing world....Pages 21-36 Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Hyderabad....Pages 37-60 Collection, transportation and disposal of urban solid waste in Nairobi....Pages 61-91 Trial and error in privatisation; the case of Hyderabad’s solid waste management....Pages 93-112 Front Matter....Pages 113-113 Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste; modalities, commodity chains and sustainable development....Pages 115-131 Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Hyderabad....Pages 133-159 Reuse, recovery and recycling of urban inorganic solid waste in Nairobi....Pages 161-194 Front Matter....Pages 195-195 Urban organic solid waste: reuse practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries....Pages 197-211 Urban organic solid waste: practices in Hyderabad....Pages 213-227 Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad....Pages 229-240 Urban organic solid waste: practices in Nairobi....Pages 241-256 Front Matter....Pages 257-257 Government, market and community in urban solid waste management; problems and potentials in the transition to sustainable development....Pages 259-281 "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."--Jacket