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More Americans recycle than vote. And most do so to improve their communities and the environment. But do recycling programs advance social, economic, and environmental goals? To answer this, three sociologists with expertise in urban and environmental planning have conducted the first major study of urban recycling. They compare four types of programs in the Chicago metropolitan area: a community-based drop-off center, a municipal curbside program, a recycling industrial park, and a linkage program. Their conclusion, admirably elaborated, is that recycling can realize sustainable community development, but that current programs achieve few benefits for the communities in which they are located. The authors discover that the history of recycling mirrors many other urban reforms. What began in the 1960's as a sustainable community enterprise has become a commodity-based, profit-driven industry. Large private firms, using public dollars, have chased out smaller nonprofit and family-owned efforts. Perhaps most troubling is that this process was not born of economic necessity. Rather, as the authors show, socially oriented programs are actually more viable than profit-focused systems. This finding raises unsettling questions about the prospects for any sort of sustainable local development in the globalizing economy. Based on a decade of research, this is the first book to fully explore the range of impacts that recycling generates in our communities. It presents recycling as a tant alizing case study of the promises and pitfalls of community development. It also serves as a rich account of how the state and private interests linked to the global economy alter the terrain of local neighborhoods.
Recycling (Waste, etc.) --- Sustainable development. --- Community development. --- Development, Sustainable --- Ecologically sustainable development --- Economic development, Sustainable --- Economic sustainability --- ESD (Ecologically sustainable development) --- Smart growth --- Sustainable development --- Sustainable economic development --- Economic development --- Conversion of waste products --- Recovery of natural resources --- Recovery of waste materials --- Resource recovery --- Waste recycling --- Waste reuse --- Conservation of natural resources --- Refuse and refuse disposal --- Energy conservation --- Salvage (Waste, etc.) --- Waste products --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Environmental aspects --- Citizen participation --- Government policy
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In recent years, environmentalism in the US has increasingly emerged at the community level, focusing on local ecological problems. Correspondingly, the American environmental movement has exhorted its supporters to 'think globally' but 'act locally'. The authors examine this modern environmental mantra by analysing the opportunities and constraints on local environmental action posed by economic and political structures at all levels. The difficulties involved in local activism are explored in three case studies - a wetlands protection project, water pollution of the Great Lakes, and consumer waste recycling. The final chapter then reflects on the challenges facing citizen-worker movements in each case study, and concludes that, despite the inherent difficulties, any successful attempt at mobilisation must have a local component.
Community power --- Environmentalism --- Regional planning --- #SBIB:316.334.5U34 --- #SBIB:316.334.5U43 --- #SBIB:35H434 --- Regional development --- State planning --- Human settlements --- Land use --- Planning --- City planning --- Landscape protection --- Environmental movement --- Social movements --- Anti-environmentalism --- Sustainable living --- Community organization --- Elite (Social sciences) --- Local government --- Power (Social sciences) --- Sociology, Urban --- Case studies --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieuproblematiek --- Sociologie van stad en platteland: milieubewegingen --- Beleidssectoren: milieubeleid en ruimtelijke ordening --- Government policy --- Greenwashing --- Social Sciences --- Sociology
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