[Geogwaste] AAG 2014 Call for Papers | Session: Sustainable Waste Management Systems

[Yvonne Rollins]

 *Organizers: *Yvonne Rollins (yrollins at uwo.ca <ruth.lane at monash.edu>), PhD
Candidate, Geography Department, Western University, Canada and Cassandra
Kuyvenhoven (c.kuyvenhoven at queensu.ca), PhD Student, School of
Environmental Studies, Queens University.



*Discussant:* Dr. Virginia Maclaren, Chair, Geography & Planning Program,
University of Toronto.



For this paper session we seek to contribute to the conference theme of
scale and sustainability by calling for papers that implicitly or
explicitly take a systems’ approach to researching waste management issues.
Waste management systems can be conceptualised as involving flows of waste
materials through complex, multi-faceted systems, which are developed and
managed by socio-political institutions, but which are also bound up with
attitudes and behaviours of individuals operating within the system (such
as residents, scavengers and policy makers).  In this view, waste
management systems comprise a network of organisations and individuals
operating at different geographic scales.  As Lepawsky and Mather (2011)
and Sheppard and McMaster (2004) demonstrate, it may be instructive to
consider the meanings associated with and the implications of system
boundaries on waste management to achieve systems that are environmentally
progressive, socially acceptable, economically viable and politically
deliverable.  Through this session we aim to contribute to a current debate
within academic and policy circles that critiques overly technical accounts
of waste management policy decisions and we seek to widen the research lens
to accommodate different geographic contexts and social perceptions of
waste itself.



Papers in this session may focus upon, but are by no means limited to:

·         How local / national / global contextual factors influence
incorporation of sustainability principles within waste management systems.

·         The ways in which innovations in waste management are attended by
changing human health and environmental impacts as a result of alterations
to the way materials flow through such systems.

·         How different components of waste management systems—such as
waste materials, waste management facilities, transport, waste
stakeholders—relate to one another.

·         How different elements of the waste hierarchy (that is,
reduction; re-use; recycling / composting; energy recovery; and disposal)
interact within a waste management system.



*References:*

Lepawsky J., & Mather, C. (2011). From beginnings and endings to boundaries
and edges: rethinking circulation and exchange through electronic
waste.  *Area,
43*(3), 242-249.



Sheppard, E., & McMaster, R.B. (2004). Scale and Geographic Inquiry:
Contrasts, Intersections and Boundaries. In E. Sheppard, & R. B. McMaster
(Eds.), *Scale and geographic inquiry: Nature, society, and method* (pp.
256-267). Malden, MA: Blackwell Publishing.


*Joining Instructions*

- E-mail your abstract to the session organizers by *November 26, 2013*,
ensuring that it conforms to AAG guidelines as specified at:
http://www.aag.org/cs/annualmeeting/call_for_papers

- Session organizers will finalise the session and notify authors by *November
29, 2013*.

- Once authors have registered, they should submit their Program
Identification Number (PIN) to session organizers by *December 3,
2013*(registration deadline).

 - Authors should submit their papers to session organizers and discussant
by *March 31, 2014 *at the latest.

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 *Yvonne Rollins | *PhD Candidate | Geography (Environment &
Sustainability) | UWO |
http://geography.uwo.ca/geograds/students/rollinsY/index.html
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