Green neoliberalism: Recycling and sustainable urban development in Sekondi-Takoradi

Obeng-Odoom, F

Green neoliberalism: Recycling and sustainable urban development in Sekondi-Takoradi

Obeng-Odoom, F

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Citation:: Habitat International, 2014, 41 pp. 129 - 134
Issue Date:: 2014-01-01

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dc.contributor.author	Obeng-Odoom, F https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3997-7751	en_US
dc.date.issued	2014-01-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Habitat International, 2014, 41 pp. 129 - 134	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	0197-3975	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/30278
dc.description.abstract	Sustainable development has been embraced by neoliberalism in the form of marketising the environment in a 'green way'. While political economists have considered this movement in terms of the emissions trading scheme and other price based mechanisms posited as solutions to global environmental crises, the particular nature of such discourses at the urban level in Africa is not well understood. Using primary data from Sekondi-Takoradi, a mid-size city in West Africa, this paper demonstrates the origin, nature, problems and contradictions in this form of green neoliberalism. It argues that the tenets and approaches of sustainable urban development are fundamentally inconsistent with green metropolitan neoliberalism. In turn, it is highly unlikely that, recycling, a medium of 'marketising the environment to save it', can provide a sustainable solution to the plastic waste glut, engendered by the private provision of urban water. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.	en_US
dc.relation.ispartof	Habitat International	en_US
dc.relation.isbasedon	10.1016/j.habitatint.2013.07.009	en_US
dc.subject.classification	Urban & Regional Planning	en_US
dc.title	Green neoliberalism: Recycling and sustainable urban development in Sekondi-Takoradi	en_US
dc.type	Journal Article
utslib.citation.volume	41	en_US
utslib.for	1205 Urban and Regional Planning	en_US
utslib.for	1606 Political Science	en_US
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pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Faculty of Design, Architecture and Building/School of Built Environment
pubs.organisational-group	/University of Technology Sydney/Strength - CCDP - Contemporary Design Practice
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Abstract:

Sustainable development has been embraced by neoliberalism in the form of marketising the environment in a 'green way'. While political economists have considered this movement in terms of the emissions trading scheme and other price based mechanisms posited as solutions to global environmental crises, the particular nature of such discourses at the urban level in Africa is not well understood. Using primary data from Sekondi-Takoradi, a mid-size city in West Africa, this paper demonstrates the origin, nature, problems and contradictions in this form of green neoliberalism. It argues that the tenets and approaches of sustainable urban development are fundamentally inconsistent with green metropolitan neoliberalism. In turn, it is highly unlikely that, recycling, a medium of 'marketising the environment to save it', can provide a sustainable solution to the plastic waste glut, engendered by the private provision of urban water. © 2013 Elsevier Ltd.

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