ABSTRACT
The potential profits that lay in solid waste are known, and disputes between different stakeholders involved in resource recovery have been documented. The issues need to be analyzed carefully, both from the theoretical and the empirical points of view, in order to design a practical framework that takes into account the assets and barriers present in inclusive waste management. This chapter discusses some of these alternative, inclusive arrangements, and show how they address pressing environmental and economic problems deriving from the generation of waste. The conceptual pillars of the chapter are as follows: governance and deliberative democracy; social and solidary economy; and participatory resource management. This triple theoretical approach to the issue of inclusive waste management will provide insight into the concrete experiences of co-management arrangements that are already in place in solid waste management. It describes two case studies; they are Livelihoods on the Edge and Innovative Public Policy in Diadema.
