Global Waste Management (models For Tackling The International Waste Crisis)

By (author) Kamila Pope; By (author) Pope Kamila
Short description/annotation
Examines the international waste trade across borders and presents tangible solutions and coping strategies.
Description
WINNER: 2020 International Solid Waste Association Publication Award Among other factors, rapid global population growth, our development model and patterns of production and consumption have increased waste generation worldwide to unsustainable rates. This rise has led to crises in many countries where waste management practices are no longer sound. Global Waste Management outlines the emerging global waste crisis considering the perspectives of developed and developing countries around the world and the international relationships between them. This book provides an ecological viewpoint as well as studying these problems from a legal and justice standpoint. Global Waste Management contextualises the problems faced when dealing with waste including the causes and origins. Focus is given to cross border waste transfer, as an ongoing and controversial practice, making waste management a global matter. This book scrutinizes existing international, European and Brazilian regulation on waste to highlight the complexity of the subject and the weaknesses of the law. Using a critical and socio-ecological approach, the book proposes an original model of governance to support a new system of global waste management that takes into account ecological sustainability and social justice to overcome the waste crisis. To create these models, a theoretical framework on socio-ecological justice is developed and combined with different discourses and theories described throughout the book. This is the essential guide to understanding the global waste crisis and the future of waste management.
Table of contents

• • Chapter - 00: Introduction;
• Section - ONE: The socio-ecological problem of waste;
• • Chapter - 01: The waste crisis – origins and causes;
  • Chapter - 02: Waste as a problem of justice;
  • Chapter - 03: Models to overcome the waste crisis;
• Section - TWO: A new waste management system for a sustainable and just future;
• • Chapter - 04: Waste as a legal problem;
  • Chapter - 05: Legal regulation of cross-border waste transfer;
  • Chapter - 06: Global governance and the management of waste;
  • Chapter - 07: Conclusion;
  • Chapter - 08: References and further reading;
  • Chapter - 09: Index

Review quote
"The book provides a brilliant description of the mechanisms behind the waste crisis, one of the biggest challenges for creating a more sustainable future. Kamila Pope offers a sharp analysis of how we arrived in this situation and shows how adequate governance could lead us out of it. A paradigm shift in the current dominant economic model and legal order for the use of a more systemic view is wisely proposed. This is an essential read for all working in sustainability issues and environmental policy."
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"The issue of global waste management is ripe with challenges of social-ecological justice. This applies to national jurisdictions, but increasingly so to cross-border waste transfers to the Global South. This book casts a sharp eye on the striking absence of systemic legal control instruments. Against this backdrop, Kamila Pope suggests the creation of international regulation oriented towards ecological integrity and dignity of life in an intra- and inter-generational perspective. This book is an alert of a global problem and a handbook for its solution; a must-read for decision-makers and scholars alike."
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"This timely book shows depth and urgency of the global waste crisis and critiques the liberal, anthropocentric model underpinnin