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24 novembre 2022
- doi: 10.4000/books.cedej.8589
- eisbn: 9782900956090
https://www.openedition.org/12554 , info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
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Egypt Cairo waste pickers garbage recycling circular economy climate change air pollution anthropocene sustainable mobility waste cities in transition architecture and rehabilitation urban expansions urban development challenges social and ecological justice nature-based solutions urban governance Economics Environmental Studies BUS072000 RNUSujets proches
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Romani Badir et al., « Useful! For a Recognition of Waste Pickers in the Circular Economy », CEDEJ - Égypte/Soudan, ID : 10.4000/books.cedej.8589
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An Indispensable But Unrecognized Community Called the ‘Zabbaleen’ in Egypt, the waste pickers of Cairo are located in ‘garbage zones’ that occupy some of the deepest and least accessible recesses of the city’s extensive outer fringes, although some neighbourhoods are now integrated into the city due to urban sprawl. Despite the Zabbaleen’s enormous historical – and discreet –contribution to the everyday functioning of the city since the 1930s, they are frequently threatened with eviction bec...