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This book will focus on Waste Management  a serious global issue and engineers' responsibility
towards finding better solutions for its sustainable management. Solid waste management is one
of the major environmental burdens in both developed and developing countries alike. An
alarming rate of solid waste generation trends can be seen as a result of globalization 
industrialization  and rapid economic development. However  low-income and marginalized sectors
in society suffer most from the unfavorable conditions deriving from poor waste management.
Solid waste management is not a mere technical challenge. The environmental impact 
socio-economic  cultural  institutional  legal  and political aspects are fundamental in
planning  designing  and maintaining a sustainable waste management system in any country.
Engineers have a major role to play in designing proper systems that integrate stakeholders 
waste system elements  and sustainability aspects of waste management. This book is part of a
focused collection from a project on Engineering and Education for Social and Environmental
Justice. It takes an explicitly social and environmental justice stance on waste and attempts
to assess the social impact of waste management on those who are also the most economically
vulnerable and least powerful in the society. We hope that this book will assist our readers to
think critically and understand the framework of socially and environmentally just waste
management. Table of Contents: Introduction   Towards a Just Politics of Waste Management  
Expertise  Indigenous People  and the Site 41 Landfill   Waste Management in the Global North 
Waste Management in the Global South: A Sri Lankan Case Study   Assessing the Feasibility of
Waste for Life in the Western Province of Sri Lanka

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