Cairo's contested Garbage | Sustainable waste management system and Zabaleen's right to the city
Wael Salah Fahmi
ISBN 10: 3846509876 ISBN 13: 9783846509876
Published by LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing, 2011
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Cairo's contested Garbage | Sustainable waste management system and Zabaleen's right to the city | Wael Salah Fahmi | Taschenbuch | 88 S. | Englisch | 2011 | LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing | EAN 9783846509876 | Verantwortliche Person für die EU: preigu GmbH & Co. KG, Lengericher Landstr. 19, 49078 Osnabrück, mail[at]preigu[dot]de | Anbieter: preigu. Seller Inventory # 106785943
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The study explores the Zabaleen’s contested geography and spatial strategies in relation to their right to inner city areas and future relocation to Cairo’s suburban new settlements . Over the decades, the Zabaleen waste (garbage) collectors of Cairo, have created what is arguably one of the world’s most efficient and sustainable resource-recovery and waste-recycling systems. Yet the continuation of this intricate relationship between community, environment and livelihood is jeopardised by the official privatisation of solid waste services through contracts with technology-intensive multinational corporations which threatens the sustainability of the garbage collectors communities. This situation was aggravated by recent official measures during the swine flu pandemic, which were mainly directed towards the Zabaleen’s pigs rearing and waste recycling economy. In addition the authorities plan to move the Zabaleen activities further out of the city, claiming that this will turn their neighbourhoods into cleaner living environments.
About the Author: Wael Fahmi is an architect who received his PhD in Planning and Landscape from the University of Manchester (UK). He teaches architecture and urbanism at Helwan University in Cairo. As a visiting academic at University of Manchester, he has been undergoing joint research on Greater Cairo’s urban growth and housing problems and informal settlements.
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Title: Cairo's contested Garbage | Sustainable ...
Publisher: LAP LAMBERT Academic Publishing
Publication Date: 2011
Binding: Taschenbuch
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