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At the Margins – Economic Geographies of Waste & Recycling

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dc.contributor.advisorProf. Dr. Martin Franzger
dc.creatorSchlitz, Nicolas-
dc.date.accessioned2020-09-25T16:46:20Z-
dc.date.available2020-09-25T16:46:20Z-
dc.date.issued2020-09-25T16:46:21Z-
dc.identifier.urihttps://osnadocs.ub.uni-osnabrueck.de/handle/urn:nbn:de:gbv:700-202009253584-
dc.description.abstractThis cumulative dissertation presents an environmental economic geography approach to the study of waste and recycling. Thereby, it introduces the notion of ‘waste economies’, which describes the conjunction of the production of waste with the societal handling as well as the valorisation of waste. Two distinct regional case studies serve to illustrate different aspects of waste economies. The first case investigates the valorisation of surplus manure from intensive livestock farming through biogas production in a highly industrialized rural region in north-western Germany – the example of manure and digestate in the Oldenburger Münsterland. The second case focuses on the recovery and revalorisation of wasted materials in the labour-intensive urban informal economy of a metropolitan area in eastern India – the example of informal plastic recycling networks in Kolkata. On a theoretical level, the conceptualization of waste economies is located at the intersection of environmental economic geography and the interdisciplinary field of waste studies. It draws on the global production networks approach, social metabolism and Marxist political economy to analyse waste as a form of ‘hybrid’ socio-nature. Following a qualitative research methodology, the analysis of the two cases depicts the close entanglement of economic and environmental processes in the production, societal handling and economic valorisation of waste, and reveals how this intersection is conducive for capital accumulation. Three different economic processes and dynamics serve as central analytical dimensions to delineate the characteristics of waste economies with regard to the expanded reproduction of capital accumulation, that is, the continued growth of capitalist economies: processes of externalisation as well as dynamics of expansion and intensification. Through the combined up-scaled analysis of two empirical cases on a higher level of theoretical abstraction, this dissertation offers a better understanding of the economic function of waste in growth-oriented capitalist economies. In this way, it contributes to the global recycling network and global destruction network approaches within economic geography and relates them to scholarly concerns about global environmental change.eng
dc.rightsAttribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Germany*
dc.rights.urihttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/de/*
dc.subjectenvironmental economic geographyeng
dc.subjectwaste studieseng
dc.subjectglobal production networkeng
dc.subjectglobalizationeng
dc.subjectenvironmental changeeng
dc.subjectinformal economyeng
dc.subjectrecyclingeng
dc.subjectplasticeng
dc.subjectmanureeng
dc.subjectIndiaeng
dc.subjectGermanyeng
dc.subject.ddc333.7 - Natürliche Ressourcen, Energie und Umweltger
dc.subject.ddc300 - Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie, Anthropologieger
dc.subject.ddc330 - Wirtschaftger
dc.subject.ddc910 - Geografie, Reisenger
dc.titleAt the Margins – Economic Geographies of Waste & Recyclingeng
dc.title.alternativeMargen an den Rändern – Zur räumlichen Ökonomie des Abfalls & Recyclingger
dc.typeDissertation oder Habilitation [doctoralThesis]-
thesis.locationOsnabrück-
thesis.institutionUniversität-
thesis.typeDissertation [thesis.doctoral]-
thesis.date2019-10-24-
orcid.creatorhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-3158-6641-
dc.contributor.refereeProf. Dr. Kim Philip Schumacherger
dc.subject.bk74.08 - Wirtschaftsgeographieger
dc.subject.bk74.09 - Sozialgeographieger
dc.subject.bk43.02 - Philosophie und Theorie der Umweltforschung und des Umweltschutzesger
dc.subject.bk43.47 - Globale Umweltproblemeger
dc.subject.bk89.93 - Nord-Süd-Verhältnisger
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