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Public–Private Partnerships in Solid Waste Management: Sustainable Development Strategies for Brazil
Author(s) -
KRULJAC SHANI
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
bulletin of latin american research
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.24
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1470-9856
pISSN - 0261-3050
DOI - 10.1111/j.1470-9856.2011.00659.x
Subject(s) - sustainability , business , municipal solid waste , sustainable development , corporate governance , curitiba , solid waste management , environmental planning , private sector , democracy , economic growth , economics , political science , waste management , engineering , finance , politics , environmental science , ecology , philosophy , law , humanities , biology
An often overlooked issue in the discussion of sustainable development is that of municipal solid waste management. Yet solid waste management is pervasive in all sustainable development objectives: its management, or lack thereof, can have major implications for the health of the environment, economy and society. This article argues the need for a governance dimension in the sustainability model, taking into account implementation strategies, monitoring and institutional controls. This focus heavily relies on integrated public–private partnerships and deliberative democracy approaches in order to achieve sustainability within the solid waste management sector. In this article, national and local policies in Brazil are analysed, primarily focusing on the inclusion of informal waste collection into municipal solid waste management schemes. The city of Curitiba, in the state of Paraná, which is world‐renowned for its innovative sustainable development policies, is used to frame and illustrate the case.