14 Governance, sustainability and deliberation
Reflections from a UK case study of sustainable waste management
Introduction
This chapter grounds the current discourse over governance and sustainability by means of a case study that operationalised a partnership approach to governance through deliberative engagement. It applies observations from a specific research context into household waste management and the controversial siting and development of Energy from Waste (EfW) facilities, to the wider sustainability debate. Within the field of sustainable development, climate change has emerged as the dominant discourse (Lovell et al. 2009), yet the challenge of waste – and, in this instance, household waste – is highly relevant. ...
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