Understanding Waste

Understanding Waste provides a multidisciplinary introduction to the diversity of waste, including its definitions, physical properties and governance.

“This incisive book explores the material, political and epistemic provocations of waste. Simultaneously sophisticated and accessible, it isn’t a book about waste, it is a book that thinks with waste and sheds new light on what we so often discard and deny.”
Emeritus Professor Gay Hawkins , Western Sydney University, Australia.

“This is a much-needed publication which deserves a wide readership. Corvellec, Durand and Stowell are enormously helpful in showing how the powerful drivers of waste production are not matched by the waste reduction and removal processes. The processes involved implicate the whole world. We need to read this book.”
Emeritus Professor Stephen Ackroyd, Lancaster University , UK.

Hervé Corvellec is a professor in business administration at the Department of Service Studies, Lund University, Sweden.

Mathieu Durand is a professor of geography and urban planning at the Space and Society Research Centre at Le Mans University, France.

Alison Stowell is a senior lecturer in organisation, work and technology at Lancaster University Management School, UK.