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Books & Book Chapters CATA – Climate Change and Women Waste Pickers Read More Journal Articles Waste Pickers and Cities This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More Journal Articles Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special... Read More Research Reports Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis. em português ABSTRACTS: English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in... Read More Journal Articles Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory... Read More Research Reports Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities.... Read More Journal Articles Repensando a articulação entre catadores, gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduous sólidos e desenvolvimento Este artigo intenta explorar alguns dos desafios, paradoxos e limites no processo de associação do lixo à cidadania, chamando particularmente... Read More Journal Articles The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management... Read More Research Reports Learning to Re-E-Cycle Published by Chintan Read More 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... Read More 1 2 3 Next Last
Waste Pickers and Cities This special issue on urban livelihoods was developed in collaboration with WIEGO. Read More
Gender and informal livelihoods: Coping strategies and perceptions of waste pickers in Sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America This article (read the abstract here) was published in a special issue of the International Journal of Sociology and Social Policy. The special... Read More
Gênero e Meio Ambiente: A dupla Jornada de Injustiça Ambiental em uma Cooperativa de Mulheres de Catadoras de Materiais Recicláveis. em português ABSTRACTS: English VALLIN, Isabella de Carvalho. Gender and Environment: the double burden of environmental injustice in... Read More
Rethinking Gender and Waste: Exploratory Findings from Participatory Action Research in Brazil This article focuses on how women waste pickers identify and deal with hierarchical gender relations. Based on findings from an exploratory... Read More
Engendering Waste Pickers Cooperatives in Brazil Women waste pickers experience multiple forms of oppression within the sector, despite the invisibility of these specific gender-based vulnerabilities.... Read More
Repensando a articulação entre catadores, gestão integrada e sustentável de resíduous sólidos e desenvolvimento Este artigo intenta explorar alguns dos desafios, paradoxos e limites no processo de associação do lixo à cidadania, chamando particularmente... Read More
The e-waste conundrum: Balancing evidence from the North and on-the-ground developing countries’ realities for improved managementAfrican Review of Economics and Finance Abstract from African Review of Economics and Finance: E-waste is currently the fastest-growing waste stream, posing major global management... Read More
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... Read More
