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The garbage crisis : a global challenge for engineers /

Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Jayasinghe, Randika
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: San Rafael, Calif. (1537 Fourth Street, San Rafael, CA 94901 USA) : Morgan & Claypool, [2013]
Series:Synthesis lectures on engineering, technology, and society ; #18.
Subjects:
Refuse and refuse disposal.
Social justice.
TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING / Environmental / Waste Management.
waste management
social and environmental justice
social impact
marginalized sectors
engineering and social justice
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Acknowledgments
  • Figure credits
  • 1. Introduction / Randika Jayasinghe
  • 1.1 Initial thoughts
  • 1.2 Waste management in the world
  • 1.2.1 Waste as a social dilemma
  • 1.2.2 Waste, shifting the responsibility
  • 1.2.3 Waste, a resource out of place
  • 1.2.4 Waste, through a "post-development" framework
  • 1.2.5 Environmentally and socially just waste management
  • 1.3 Definition of developmental status
  • 1.4 Structure of the book
  • 1.5 Final thoughts
  • References
  • 2. Towards a just politics of waste management / Usman Mushtaq
  • 2.1 Introduction
  • 2.2 Environmental and social injustice
  • 2.2.1 Class and work
  • 2.2.2 Women and their families
  • 2.2.3 Indigenous peoples, NIMBYism, and sovereignty
  • 2.3 What exactly is social justice?
  • 2.4 Power and resistance
  • 2.5 Foucault's framework
  • 2.5.1 What is power?
  • 2.5.2 Where is power?
  • 2.5.3 How is power negotiated?
  • 2.5.4 How does power operate?
  • 2.5.5 What does resistance have to do with power?
  • 2.5.6 What do truth/knowledge have to do with power?
  • 2.5.7 How to analyze power?
  • 2.6 Modeling a socially just approach to waste
  • 2.7 Coming back to environmental racism
  • References
  • 3. Expertise, indigenous people, and the site 41 landfill / Usman Mushtaq
  • 3.1 Introduction
  • 3.2 Akwesasne and General Motors
  • 3.3 Site 41
  • 3.4 A history of site 41
  • 3.5 Seeing site 41 through a social justice lens
  • 3.5.1 Discourse analysis
  • 3.5.2 Analyzing a discursive formation
  • 3.6 Excavating power at site 41
  • 3.6.1 Landfills
  • 3.6.2 Environment
  • 3.6.3 Consultation
  • 3.6.4 Expertise
  • 3.6.5 Uncertainty
  • 3.6.6 Local knowledge
  • 3.6.7 Social impacts
  • 3.6.8 Authority
  • 3.6.9 Community resistance
  • 3.6.10 Indigenous peoples
  • 3.7 Identifying domains, institutions, forms of specification, and power at site 41
  • 3.7.1 Domains
  • 3.7.2 Institutions
  • 3.7.3 Forms of specification
  • 3.7.4 Power relationships
  • 3.8 Towards a more just relationship to waste in Simcoe County
  • 3.8.1 Identify structures of oppression
  • 3.8.2 Working within social movements
  • 3.8.3 Using resistive design techniques
  • 3.9 Towards zero waste in Simcoe County
  • References
  • 4. Waste management in the global north / Randika Jayasinghe
  • 4.1 Introduction
  • 4.2 Waste management in the global north
  • 4.3 Environmental inequality: siting of waste facilities
  • 4.3.1 Waste dumps in the U.S.
  • 4.3.2 Waste management in regional and remote areas of Australia
  • 4.4 Hazardous wastes: shifting the responsibility
  • 4.5 E-waste: skeletons of modern technology
  • References
  • 5. Waste management in the global south: a Sri Lankan case study / Randika Jayasinghe
  • 5.1 Introduction
  • 5.2 Waste management in the global south
  • 5.3 Sri Lanka: the pearl of the Indian Ocean
  • 5.4 Waste management through a social and environmental justice lens
  • 5.5 Solid waste governance: who is responsible?
  • 5.6 Privatization of waste management
  • 5.6.1 Colombo's garbage mountain, the Blomendahl waste dump
  • 5.7 Informal waste pickers in Sri Lanka
  • References
  • 6. Assessing the feasibility of waste for life in the western province of Sri Lanka / Toni Alyce Smythe
  • 6.1 Introduction
  • 6.2 Socio-economic feasibility
  • 6.2.1 Stakeholder analysis
  • 6.2.2 Health and safety risk assessment
  • 6.2.3 Identification and critical assessment of some potential sources of funding
  • 6.3 Technical feasibility
  • 6.3.1 Identification and critical assessment of potential sources of waste plastic
  • 6.3.2 Identification and critical assessment of potential sources of natural fiber
  • 6.4 Environmental feasibility
  • 6.4.1 Comparison of current practices in plastic recycling with waste for life process
  • 6.5 Future directions for WfL Sri Lanka
  • References
  • Authors' biographies.