Atiq Zaman, Tahmina Ahsan

Zero-Waste (eBook, PDF)

Reconsidering Waste Management for the Future

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This book analyses 'zero-waste' (ZW) as an emerging waste management strategy for the future, which considers waste prevention through innovative design and sustainable consumption practices.

Drawing on a diverse range of case studies from Australia, Bangladesh, Japan, New Zealand, Sweden, and the USA, this book explores why urban waste management systems still remain a major challenge for almost all cities around the world. Rejecting waste as an 'end-of-life' problem, Atiq Zaman and Tahmina Ahsan instead consider waste prevention through the ZW model, in which resources are utilized and consumed with minimum environmental degradation. In addition, the authors give extended discussion on why embracing the ZW concept will be beneficial for the circular economy (CE).

Providing a strategic zero-waste framework and an evaluation tool to measure waste management performance aimed towards ZW goals, this book will be of great relevance to students, scholars, and policymakers with an interest in waste management, sustainable consumption, urban planning, and sustainable development.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 234
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. Dezember 2019
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781315436289
• Artikelnr.: 58348006

Autorenporträt

Atiq Zaman is a Lecturer at the School of Design and the Built Environment and an early carrier researcher at the Curtin University Sustainability Policy Institute, Curtin University, Australia. He has more than eight years of research experiences in the area of sustainable waste management and environmental assessment. He is an active advocate for ZW philosophy, activities, and practices. His research interests include sustainable waste management, collaborative consumption, circular economy, and sustainability in the built environment.

Tahmina Ahsan is a casual academic at the School of Design and the Built Environment, Curtin University, Australia. She is an architect with a master's in environmental engineering and sustainable infrastructure from KTH, the Royal Institute of Technology, Sweden; and a PhD degree from the University of Adelaide, Australia. She has a keen interest in sustainable practices and design.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: zero
waste and beyond Part 1: The anatomy of zero
waste: zero
waste and beyond Chapter 1: Background of waste management system Chapter 2: Plastics and the throwaway society Chapter 3: Production, consumption, and waste management: the missing link Chapter 4: Zero
waste in urban system Part 2: Case studies of zero
waste Chapter 5: Zero
waste practices in our society Chapter 6: Zero
ewaste Chapter 7: The whole house reuse project Chapter 8: Zero
waste in the global cities Part 3: Zero
waste strategy and tool Chapter 9: Zero
waste strategy Chapter 10: Smart zero
waste tracking system Chapter 11: Measuring tool for zero
waste Chapter 12: Application of the zero
waste Conclusion Index