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Recycling Institutions by Letícia Antunes Nogueira (Hardback)
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9783031817533
Published:
28 Mar 2025
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Hardback
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235x155mm
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This open access book investigates the phenomenon of recycling institutions in urban mining using social sciences lenses on the empirical context of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), landfills as a potential resource pool and the recycling of building materials in Norway. There is a dual meaning to the term 'recycling institutions', and this book has the ambition to explore both. The first refers to institutions that recycle, i.e., the institutional infrastructure that facilitates material recycling. From household attitudes and practices to the laws and regulations that govern waste management, there is an institutional apparatus that recycling relies upon, which gains increased importance as the sustainability agenda develops. The second meaning refers to the recycling of institutions, in the sense that the institutional setup itself is being repurposed and transformed. This more metaphorical meaning po
This open access book investigates the phenomenon of recycling institutions in urban mining using social sciences lenses on the empirical context of waste from electrical and electronic equipment (WEEE), landfills as a potential resource pool and the recycling of building materials in Norway.
There is a dual meaning to the term 'recycling institutions', and this book has the ambition to explore both. The first refers to institutions that recycle, i.e., the institutional infrastructure that facilitates material recycling. From household attitudes and practices to the laws and regulations that govern waste management, there is an institutional apparatus that recycling relies upon, which gains increased importance as the sustainability agenda develops. The second meaning refers to the recycling of institutions, in the sense that the institutional setup itself is being repurposed and transformed. This more metaphorical meaning points to the way in which emerging societal ambitions (such as the circular economy) stretch and bend existing institutions by imposing new functions upon them. Institutions are conservative and backward-looking and tend to resist rapid and radical changes that are incompatible with the ideas and practices they are built on. So, whereas the first is about designing new institutions for circularity, the second is about modifying and "recycling" existing institutions to meet the challenges circularity may entail.
The central premise is that relevant, supportive and well-functioning institutional environments are crucial in the transition to a greener society that encourages industries, businesses, households and citizens to act in more sustainable ways, and it identify both possibilities and obstacles in the emergence of institutions that support urban mining. This book integrates a range of disciplines in the social sciences to investigate the phenomenon of recycling institutions. By examining the case of urban mining in Norway, with a special focus on how existing structures developed for waste management can be repurposed to facilitate this new function, the book provides insight into a scenario where material sourcing from anthropogenic sources is dissociated from natural resource scarcity and is instead linked to political ambitions and an attempt to stay at the forefront of sustainability transitions.
About the Author: Letìcia Antunes Nogueira is senior researcher at Nordland Research Institute and head of section Resources and Digital Services at NTNU Library (Norwegian University of Science and Technology). She earned her Ph.D. in Innovation Economics from Aalborg University, Denmark, in 2018. Her research focuses on industrial dynamics, organisational dynamics and political economy, with particular emphasis on how sectors and organizations navigate sociotechnical transitions. She investigates both the organizational responses to volatility and uncertainty during these transitions, and examines how emerging innovations challenge established societal values and institutions. Håkan T. Sandersen (Cand.Polit in planning) is associate professor at the Faculty of Social Science at Nord University, Bodø, Norway. His research interests are focused on natural resource management with emphasis on marine issues related to aquaculture and spatial management, and increasingly also on climate change and the green transition. Brigt Dale (Ph.D. Political Science, MD Visual Anthropology) is research professor and research director at Nordland Research Institute, Norway. His work focuses on societal transformation, security theory, governmentality, biopolitics and cultural theory and on the relation between politics, security, power, and resource management, and local community development. Dale´s empirical research includes the consequences of (and adaptation to) climate change and societal transformation, petroleum politics and extractive industries impact on local lives, tourism, aquaculture, and cultural heritage. He has done fieldwork in Tobago (2001), the Lofoten Islands (2008-2010, and ongoing), in Finnmark (2014, 2015) and in Greenland (2014, 2019).
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