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    "description": "<br />Offering a view from Ankara, this book presents the co-evolution of socio-technical heterogeneity and waste governance by means of Urban Political Ecology (UPE), and expands the geographical contexts in which UPE of waste research has so far operated.<br />Informed by the complex relations underlying the production, change and sustained coexistence of authorized and unauthorized socio-technical responses, the book Metabolic Urbanization of Waste in Ankara 1) explores the mechanisms underlying urban policy and planning responses to waste within the context of rapid urbanization in Ankara; 2) investigates how various socio-technical responses to waste is historically produced and transformed; and 3) develops an insightful theoretical frame to understand such environmentally, socio-spatially, economically and politically relevant issue.<br />Table of Contents<br />1. Introduction: Municipal Solid Waste Governance and Urban Political Ecology<br />2. Understanding Waste Governance<br />3. Urban Political Ecologies of Waste or Situating Waste Governance<br />4. Methodology<br />5. Emergence and Consolidation of Heterogeneity in the Waste Sector<br />6. Changing Terrain of Waste Governance and Management: A Look through the Context<br />7. Metamorphoses of Waste Disposal in Ankara<br />8. A Pitched Battle of Claims: Transformation of the Recycling Sector in Ankara<br />9. Socio-Technical Heterogeneity and Governance of Urban Waste<br />10. References<br />11. List of Interviews and Focus Group Discussions<br />Summary<br />G\u00fcl Tu\u00e7altan, PhD, is a city ands regional planner from Turkey, working at the Department of Human Geography and Planning at Utrecht University, The Netherlands.<br />",
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