Funding:
- Swiss National Science Foundation (SNSF)
Principal Investigator:
- Rene Veron, UNIL
Co PI
- Nishara Fernando, University of Colombo
- N.C., Narayanan, Indian Institute of Technology Bombay
- Bishnu R, Upreti, XYZ
Project Team:
- Dr Neelam Rana, IIT Bombay
- Taenaz Shakir, IIT Bombay &
- Rakendu S, IIT Bombay
- Sruthi Pillai, IIT Bombay
- Gautham Ganapathy, IIT Bombay
- Dr Mijo Luke, IIT Bombay
Project status:
- Closed
Partners:
- University of Laussane
- University of Colombo
- Nepal Centre for Contemporary Research
- Centre for Environment and Development
- Janathakshan, Colombo, Sri Lanka
- Centre for Integrated Urban Development, Kathmandu, Nepal
Project Objectives:
- To understand the institutional architecture with flows of ideas, funds and power;
- To understand the waste chain characterized by material flows and human labor
- To understand the discursive construction and representation of waste and waste-work
Project Outputs:
Report on the SWM practices and perceptions at household level, working papers and journal articles on topics such as circularity in decentralized solid waste management, livelihoods in solid waste management, solid waste management technologies and policy, dissemination workshops to present work and findings to local government officials, blogs and documentary films