Trading Trash in the Transition: Economic Restructuring, Urban Spatial Transformation, and the Boom and Bust of Hanoi's Informal Waste Trade

Carrie L Mitchell
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Carrie L Mitchell: International Development Research Centre, 150 Kent Street, PO Box 8500, Ottawa, ON K1G 3H9, Canada

Environment and Planning A, 2009, vol. 41, issue 11, 2633-2650

Abstract: In this paper I explore how one particular segment of the informal waste-recovery trade, waste intermediaries, is impacted by Hanoi's rapid urban economic and spatial change. Using survey and interview data I demonstrate: (1) waste intermediaries simultaneously gain and lose as a result of Hanoi's urban transition; and (2) the underlying forces of urban spatial change in different areas of the city are quite distinct, which will have a unique impact on the future of informal waste-recovery in Hanoi.

Date: 2009
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DOI: 10.1068/a41219

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