This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.
Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it:
-utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis;
-provides embedded case study data;
-deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling;
-has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India);
-can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.

This book is for practising professionals and academics working in urban planning and international development: international project staff, trainers, urban development researchers and teaching staff in universities and polytechnics.
Solid Waste Management and Recycling is unique in that it:
-utilizes an 'integrated solid waste management perspective' in its analysis;
-provides embedded case study data;
-deals with both formal and informal actors and institutional arrangements in solid waste management and recycling;
-has chapters written by experts from the countries concerned (Kenya and India);
-can be used in graduate-level courses in urban development, urban management and planning, and technical engineering courses for students, project staff, and technical students.

Provision of water, food, energy, and shelter throughout the world were integrated with bio-systems and was a sustainable approach for the management of organic wastes as well as in the past. Increased urbanisation an dependence on mechanical technologies coupled with lifestyle changes and market driven economic centralism is consuming resources in unsustainable ways. This urban-lifestyle and commercial activity is often unconnected with surrounding ecosystems and bio-systems. In questioning the sustainability of lifestyle and commercial activities old approaches have been reassessed and refined. Development of decentralised technologies that mimic bio-systems have led to real commercial gains without sacrificing a sustainable approach. Decentralised approa-systems guarantee innovation. The use of bio-systems and models derived from them can have real benefit to the environment and to the economy. The papers in this book will be of interest to academics, industries, policy makers and community workers who are worrying on several aspects of utilising bio-systems and making it sustainable. The topics discussed in this book are mainly on the technologies related to the management of bio-systems.