Eight years to Go, to Meet the SDG Targets: Waste Management as Enabler and Enabled
2023 (English)In: Urban Metabolism and Climate Change: Perspective for Sustainable Cities / [ed] Rahul Bhadouria; Sachchidanand Tripathi; Pardeep Singh; P K Joshi; Rishikesh Singh, Springer Nature, 2023, p. 223-245Chapter in book (Refereed)
Abstract [en]
Waste management has evolved from the earlier five-step hierarchy to include many more R’s—reclaim, repurpose, remediate, renovate, replenish, revere nature, being a few of them. It can play a key role in the alleviation of, and the simultaneous adaptation to the repercussions of climate change. Waste valorisation, which is gradually entrenching itself, in both principle and practice, can go a long way in directly and indirectly enabling humankind to get closer to several sustainable development goals (SDGs) targets and perhaps overachieve in some respects. Value creation by adopting the R’s wherever, however, whenever and by whosoever possible, is a sine qua non for achieving the SDGs by year-2030 and continuing in the same vein thereafter, when the world will have to grapple more perceptibly with the repercussions of climate change. It is clear that we cannot avert climate change now. We can, at best, alleviate the intensity of its repercussions, though unfortunately not uniformly all over the world. This chapter posits waste management (urban and otherwise) in the scheme of things related to the sustainable development goals (SDGs), as both enablers and enabled. The exposition introduces readers to the multi-dimensionality of sustainable development, and thereby efficient, value-generating waste management in a circular economy/bio-economy.
Place, publisher, year, edition, pages
Springer Nature, 2023. p. 223-245
Keywords [en]
Circular bio-economy, Climate change, Recover, Recycle, Reduce, Remediate, Reuse, Sustainable development goals (SDGs), Urban metabolism, Valorisation, Waste management, Wastes
National Category
Environmental Engineering
Research subject
Environmental and Energy Systems
Identifiers
URN: urn:nbn:se:kau:diva-93921DOI: 10.1007/978-3-031-29422-8_12Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85172135329ISBN: 978-3-031-29421-1 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-29424-2 (print)ISBN: 978-3-031-29422-8 (electronic)OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kau-93921DiVA, id: diva2:1743026
2023-03-132023-03-132023-10-20Bibliographically approved