Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities - Couverture rigide

Pollans, Lily Baum

 
9781477323700: Resisting Garbage: The Politics of Waste Management in American Cities
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 1477323708 ISBN 13 : 9781477323700
Editeur : University of Texas Press, 2021

Synopsis

Resisting Garbage presents a new approach to understanding practices of waste removal and recycling in American cities, one that is grounded in the close observation of case studies while being broadly applicable to many American cities today.

Most current waste practices in the United States, Lily Baum Pollans argues, prioritize sanitation and efficiency while allowing limited post-consumer recycling as a way to quell consumers' environmental anxiety. After setting out the contours of this "weak recycling waste regime," Pollans zooms in on the very different waste management stories of Seattle and Boston over the last forty years. While Boston's local politics resulted in a waste-export program with minimal recycling, Seattle created new frameworks for thinking about consumption, disposal, and the roles that local governments and ordinary people can play as partners in a project of resource stewardship. By exploring how these two approaches have played out at the national level, Resisting Garbage provides new avenues for evaluating municipal action and fostering practices that will create environmentally meaningful change.

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À propos de l?auteur

Lily Baum Pollans is an assistant professor of urban policy and planning at Hunter College in New York.

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Éditeur
University of Texas Press
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
1477323708
ISBN 13 
9781477323700
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
248
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Personne responsable
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