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The Informal Sector and the Environment (Hardcover)
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The Informal Sector and the Environment (Hardcover)
Series: Routledge Studies in Ecological Economics
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The informal economy - broadly defined as economic activity that is
not subject to government regulation or taxation - sustains a large
part of the world's workforce. It is a diverse, complex and growing
area of activity. However, being largely unregulated, its impact on
the environment has not been closely scrutinised or analysed. This
edited volume demonstrates that the informal sector is a major
source of environmental pollution and a major reason behind the
environmental degradation accompanying the expansion of economic
activity in developing countries. Environmental regulation and
economic incentive policies are difficult to implement in this
sector because economic units are unregistered, geographically
dispersed and difficult to identify. Moreover, given their limited
capital base, they cannot afford to pay pollution fees or install
pollution abating equipment. Informal manufacturing units often
operate under unscientific and unhealthy conditions, further
contributing to polluting the environment. The book emphasizes and
examines these challenges, and their solutions, encountered in
various sectors of the informal economy, including urban waste
pickers, small-scale farmers, informal workers, home-based workers,
street vendors, and more. If the informal sector is to "Leave no
one behind" (as the Sustainable Development Goals promise) and
contribute to "inclusive growth" (an objective of the green
economy), then its impact on the economy as well as the environment
has to be carefully considered. This book marks a significant
contribution to the literature on both the informal economy and
sustainable development, and will be of great interest to readers
in economics, geography, politics, environment studies and public
policy more broadly. Chapter 4 of this book is available for free
in PDF format as Open Access from the individual product page at
www.routledge.com. It has been made available under a Creative
Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives 4.0 license
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