Focus on actors: the institutional structure and networks in municipal waste management. An exploratory analysis from the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area
| dc.contributor.author | Maiello, Antonella | |
| dc.contributor.author | Nogueira de Paiva Britto, Ana LĂșcia | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2024-10-03T10:54:16Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2024-10-03T10:54:16Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 2016 | en |
| dc.description | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.description.abstract | All over the world the management of wastes represent a main concern. The waste production has doubled along the last ten years and the coming years will experience an upward trend (McAllister, 2015), unless a radical change in the prevailing consumption and production patterns will occurs. Usually, the management of waste is a municipal government task; nonetheless it involves multiples actors and deserves a multilevel, cooperative, as well as well coordinated, organization among them. As a matter of fact, municipal solid waste management (MSWM) is a complex process, which entails subsequent and costly stages such as waste collection, transfer, treatment (Soltani et al., 2015) and final disposals. Often, especially, in developing world, the municipal government has no enough resources to perform these functions alone, especially those that require big infrastructures (e.g. treatment/incinerator plant). For this reason, each municipality may need to join to those neighboring to share costs and space, going beyond the municipal scale, to improve the environmental and economic performance of their own MSWM strategy. Furthermore, waste production occurs along a long cyclic path, which starts from row material producers to final consumers. Therefore, the MSWM policies and planning institutions ought to deal with business sector as well as with citizens and civil society organizations in order to promote sustainable behaviors at each stage of waste cycle. | |
| dc.description.version | publishedVersion | en |
| dc.identifier.isbn | 978-85-7785-551-1 | en |
| dc.identifier.pageNumber | 1143-1147 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14235/2028 | |
| dc.language.iso | English | en |
| dc.publisher | AESOP | en |
| dc.rights | openAccess | en |
| dc.rights.license | All rights reserved | en |
| dc.source | Proceedings of the IV World Planning Schools Congress, July 3-8th, 2016 : Global crisis, planning and challenges to spatial justice in the north and in the south | en |
| dc.title | Focus on actors: the institutional structure and networks in municipal waste management. An exploratory analysis from the Rio de Janeiro metropolitan area | |
| dc.type | conferenceObject | en |
| dc.type.version | publishedVersion | en |