Solid Waste Management and Recycling: Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya [Paperback]

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 Hyderabads 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 colC@