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  • Research Reports

    Sumário Executivo – Estudo de Monitoramento da Economia Informal: Catadoras e Catadores de Materiais Recicláveis de Bogotá, Colômbia

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  • Research Reports

    Urban informality and building a more inclusive, resilient and green economy

    The green economy and climate resilience agendas are widely promoted as solutions to 21st century challenges facing sustainable development....

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  • Research Reports

    Cooling Agents: An Examination of the role of the Informal Recycling Sector in Mitigating Climate Change

    Intuition and common sense suggest that recycling waste mitigates greenhouse gases. Now, data from all over the developed world shows this...

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  • Journal Articles

    Public Space, Public Waste, and the Right to the City

    Abstract: I draw on my experiences as an organizer with a waste-pickers collective, Kagad Kach Patra Kashtakari Panchayat in Pune, India,...

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  • 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...

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  • Research Reports

    Mainstreaming Waste Pickers and the Informal Recycling Sector in the Municipal Solid Waste

    Handling and Management Rules 2000, A Discussion Paper

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  • Books & Book Chapters

    A Paper Life: Belgrade’s Roma in the Underworld of Waste Scavenging and Recycling

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  • Research Reports

    Organizando nas Ruas: Um estudo dos Catadores de recicláveis nas ruas da Cidade do Cabo

    Um resumo baseado no relatório de Koni Benson e Nandi Vanqa-Mgijima, (ILRIG) – Grupo Internacional de Informação e Pesquisa de Trabalho

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  • Worker Story

    God is My Alarm Clock: A Brazilian Waste Picker’s Story

    The story of an informal worker, Mrs. Maria Brás, who was a tireless force in the struggle of waste pickers in Brazil to overcome persecution...

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  • Policy Briefs

    The Municipal Waste and Citizenship Forum: A Platform for Social Inclusion and Participation

    A critical source of success of the Belo Horizonte model of including waste pickers into urban plans has been the high level of organization...

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