The business of waste : Great Britain and Germany, 1945 to the present / / Raymond G. Stokes, University of Glasgow, Roman Köster, University of Glasgow, Stephen C. Sambrook, University of Glasgow [[electronic resource]]

• Autore: Stokes Raymond G.
• Pubblicazione: Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2013
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)
• Disciplina: 363.72/80941
• Soggetto topico: Refuse and refuse disposal - Great Britain - History; Refuse and refuse disposal - Germany - History; Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Great Britain - History; Recycling (Waste, etc.) - Germany - History
• Persona (resp. second.): KösterRoman <1975->; SambrookStephen C.
• Note generali: Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: part I. Cleansing services, 1945 to the 1960s : from societies of want to societies of plenty -- part II. Grappling with crisis : from the 1960s to 1980 -- part III. Reconceptualizing waste and conceptualizing waste management : from 1980 to the present.
• Sommario/riassunto: The advent of consumer societies in the United Kingdom and West Germany after 1945 led to the mass 'production' of garbage. This book compares the social, cultural and economic fallout of the growing volume and changing composition of waste in the two countries from 1945 to the present through sustained attention to changes in the business of handling household waste. Though the UK and Germany are similar in population density, degrees of urbanisation, and standardisation, the two countries took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and more recently, towards the goal of 'zero-waste'. The authors explore evolving balances between public and private provision in waste services; the transformation of public cleansing into waste management; the role of government legislation and regulation; emerging conceptualisations of recycling and resource recovery; and the gradual shift of the industry's regulatory and business context from local to national and then to international.
• Titolo autorizzato: The business of waste
• ISBN: 1-107-28965-3; 1-139-89114-6; 1-107-28914-9; 1-107-29403-7; 1-107-29019-8; 1-107-29124-0; 1-139-22566-9; 1-107-29296-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910453636103321
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