More inclusive and cleaner cities with waste management co-production: Insights from participatory epistemologies and methods
More inclusive and cleaner cities with waste management co-production: Insights from participatory epistemologies and methods
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10.1016/j.habitatint.2014.10.004
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2015-04-01
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6.8
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Gutberlet, Jutta
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作者：
Gutberlet, Jutta
由于世界上一半以上的人口生活在城市，加上消费量不断增加，固体废物的产生已成为城市群普遍存在的严重问题。城市管理部门在规划固体废物解决方案时面临着社会、文化、环境和经济挑战。本文讨论了巴西包容性固体废物管理的参与性认识论和方法经验。在全球南方，无数非正式和有组织的固体废物收集者正在从事资源回收、废弃物分类以及将可回收物转向回收部门。他们的工作大多不被承认，而且这种服务没有报酬。政府对回收合作社参与有选择的废物收集工作的支持在范围和质量上差别很大。从理论上讲，巴西固体废物管理立法支持回收合作社，并促进避免，再利用和回收作为处理废物的主要解决方案。然而，在实践中，在实现包容性资源回收和提高对避免废物和废物转用的认识方面，仍有许多挑战有待克服。在圣保罗大都市区与回收合作社和地方政府进行的面向可持续发展的参与性定性研究揭示了一些环境和社会贡献，以及在规划、政策设计和实施废物管理方面出现的挑战。本研究运用女性主义和后殖民主义的理论框架，展示了废物管理的丰富知识共生。参与式方法强调在规划和政策设计包容性废物管理时应考虑的重要社会方面。本文的最后结论是，有选择地与回收合作社一起收集家庭废物，为建设更具包容性和更清洁的城市创造了独特的机会。(C)2014爱思唯尔有限公司版权所有。
With over half of the world's population living in cities, and with rising consumption, the generation of solid waste has become a ubiquitous and serious problem in urban agglomerations. City administrations are facing social, cultural, environmental, and economic challenges when planning solid waste solutions. The paper discusses the participatory epistemology and methodology experience resulting from inclusive solid waste management in Brazil. In the global South countless informal and organized solid waste collectors are engaged in resource recovery, classification of discarded waste, and redirection of recyclables towards the recycling sector. Their work is mostly unrecognized and the service is not remunerated. Governmental support to include recycling cooperatives in selective waste collection varies significantly in scope and quality. In theory, the Brazilian solid waste management legislation supports recycling cooperatives and promotes avoidance, reuse, and recycling as a primary solution tackling waste. In praxis, however, many challenges towards inclusive resource recovery and awareness building about waste avoidance and diversion are yet to be overcome. Action-oriented, participatory qualitative research, conducted with recycling cooperatives and local governments in the metropolitan region of Sao Paulo, has revealed some of the environmental and social contributions, as well as challenges arising in planning, policy design, and implementation of waste management. The research applies a feminist and post-colonial theoretical lense and demonstrates a wealth of knowledge co-generation on waste management. The participatory method underlines important social aspects to consider in planning and policy design for inclusive waste management. The final conclusion of this paper is that selective household waste collection with recycling cooperatives creates unique opportunities to build more inclusive and cleaner cities. (C) 2014 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.