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| Title | Challenges And Opportunities Towards Management Of Solid Wastes In Indian Cities: Beyond The Rhetoric Of Convenience |
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| ID_Doc | 13629 |
| Authors | Ghosh R.; Kumar M.S. |
| Year | 2021 |
| Published | Sustainable Development Goals Series, Part F2699 |
| DOI | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-85839-1_27 |
| Abstract | Sustainable solid waste management is a global challenge, but with 2030 agenda for sustainable development and livelihood security, it creates opportunities for human settlement with gender equality, and sanitation, considering resource resilience and sustainability. India is a country experiencing rapid urbanisation rate (from 27.82 in 2000 to 31.1 in 2011, Census of India, 2011), and human inflow to cities has made landfill sites super-saturated. Moreover, the concept of reduction of waste does not appear in the Indian context of waste management (WM) scheme, pushing backward the resilience and livelihood security. Only 2R (recycling and reuse) occurs effectively from 3Rs strategy in the waste management hierarchy. Besides, recycling is done with economic benefit and reuse in selective personal use; however, reduction has lost its vitality in Indian waste management sector. Thus, the role of informal sector is crucial to recycling industries. But, within the informal sector, women are critical to WM and are exposed to health hazards from improper waste handling, posing greater life threats to not only them but to the coming generations as well. Furthermore, with more smart city development schemes, there comes economic opportunities for cities resulting in increased migration, land use change, and enhanced waste generation but lack of scientific disposal sites. Thus, recycling units have huge scope in near future, making roles of these informal sector and specially women decisive towards sustainable resource management and livelihood security. This sector has been neglected for long and public health will be more than compromised with further increase in the waste generation and management issues. However, with massive issues of human settlement, centralised WM is no longer a viable option in the long run. This calls for a decentralised management approach towards solid waste management (SWM), and informal sector playing vital role. Thus, the chapter aims to voice challenges and opportunities for women in the informal settlements within decentralised management scale addressing health and hygiene and livelihood security. © Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2021. |
| Author Keywords | Livelihood; Recycle; Reduce; Reuse; Security; Solid Waste Management; Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs); Unorganised-Informal sector; Women |
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