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Beijing Garbage
A City Besieged by Waste
"The book is a timely publication, with many valuable lessons. For anyone interested in China’s environmental governance, this publication is highly recommended."
- Jingfang Liu, Fudan University, The China Journal, Issue 87 (2022)
"Beijing Garbage is arguably one among the very first academic publications about China’s waste that examine the emergence of the O2O business model in waste trade, which is a rather recent phenomenon. The book not only lays out the organisational features of this new model of trade, but has gone further to interrogate how the model is being perceived by the end users (a.k.a., urban residents). [...] The book provides extensive and illuminating discussions on the various institutional settings through which China’s vast and diverse environment is governed."
- Shih-Yang Kao, Asian Journal of Social Science 48 (2020)
Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Les mer
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Why do central and local government initiatives aiming to curb the proliferation of garbage in Beijing and its disposal continue to be unsuccessful? Is the Uberization of waste picking through online-to-offline (O2O) garbage retrieval companies able to decrease waste and improve the lives of waste pickers? Most citizens of Beijing are well aware of the fact that their city is besieged by waste. Yet instead of taking individual action, they sit and wait for the governments at various levels to tell them what to do. And even if/when they adopt a proactive position, this does not last. Official education drives targeting the consumers are organized regularly and with modest success, but real solutions are not forthcoming. Various environmental non-governmental organizations are at work to raise the level of consciousness of the population, to change individual attitudes towards wasteful behavior, but seemingly with little overall effects.
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Amsterdam University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9789463720304
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 16 cm
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"The book is a timely publication, with many valuable lessons. For anyone interested in China’s environmental governance, this publication is highly recommended."
- Jingfang Liu, Fudan University, The China Journal, Issue 87 (2022)
"Beijing Garbage is arguably one among the very first academic publications about China’s waste that examine the emergence of the O2O business model in waste trade, which is a rather recent phenomenon. The book not only lays out the organisational features of this new model of trade, but has gone further to interrogate how the model is being perceived by the end users (a.k.a., urban residents). [...] The book provides extensive and illuminating discussions on the various institutional settings through which China’s vast and diverse environment is governed."
- Shih-Yang Kao, Asian Journal of Social Science 48 (2020)
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