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Books & Book Chapters
Dumping on Women: Gender and privatisation of waste management
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Journal Articles
Waste and Development – Perspectives from the Ground
While waste pickers provide vital services to their communities, their municipalities and the environment – they generally face very difficult...
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Journal Articles
Not to be Taken for Granted: What Informal Waste Pickers Offer the Urban Economy
WIEGO Waste Sector Specialist Sonia Dias argues for a holistic approach to solid waste management that recognises the economic and environmental...
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Journal Articles
Health Conditions of Recyclable Waste Pickers
Abstract: The presence of chronic non-communicable diseases (NCDs) among vulnerable populations is a rarely discussed subject. Thus, the...
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Research Reports
Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores em Belo Horizonte, Brasil
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Working Papers
Forging a New Conceptualization of “The Public” in Waste Management
The involvement of informal workers in municipal service delivery is generally theorized and studied as a key component of a neoliberal privatization...
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Journal Articles
The Efficiency of Informality: Quantifying Greenhouse Gas Reductions from Informal Recycling in Bogotá, Colombia
Abstract: The dual challenges of increasing urbanization and consumption are centered in cities in the Global South, where growing waste...
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Research Reports
Waste & Citizenship Forum: Waste Pickers and the State
Note from WIEGO 20th Anniversary Research Conference.
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City/Country Level Reports
Mapping of Waste Pickers and Organizations Supporting Waste Pickers in Kenya
Report commissioned by WIEGO
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Journal Articles
Producing Privatization: Re-articulating Race, Gender, Class and Space
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