| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 331 pages) : illustrations |
| Physical Medium |
monochrome |
| Description |
text file |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 307-320) and index. |
| Contents |
Establishing (and reestablishing) an industry : waste services in the United Kingdom and Germany from the late nineteenth century to the 1950s -- Rationalization measures -- Salvage and the industry -- The waste flood -- Politicizing household waste : from public helath nuisance to environmental pollutant -- Coping with the crisis -- Framing waste : measurement, regulation, and legislation in the 1980s -- The waste management indsutry since 1990 -- summary, conclusions, and reflectsions. |
| Summary |
"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 urbanization, and standardization, the two countries took profoundly different paths from low-waste to throwaway societies, and more recently, toward 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 conceptualizations 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."-- Provided by publisher. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Refuse and refuse disposal -- Great Britain -- History.
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Refuse and refuse disposal. |
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Great Britain. |
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History. |
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Refuse and refuse disposal -- Germany -- History.
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Germany. |
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Great Britain -- History.
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) |
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Recycling (Waste, etc.) -- Germany -- History.
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| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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History.
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| Added Author |
Köster, Roman, 1975-
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Sambrook, Stephen C.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Stokes, Raymond G. Business of waste. New York : Cambridge University Press, 2013 9781107027213 1107027217 (DLC) 2013012157 (OCoLC)835951565 |
| ISBN |
9781107294035 (electronic book) |
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1107294037 (electronic book) |
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9781306071819 |
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130607181X |
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9781107027213 (hardback) |
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1107027217 (hardback) |
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