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Rag-pickers as benefactors and beneficiaries of the sustainable development goals : A brief literature review
Ragpickers have long led a marginalised, subliminal and deprived existence, and havesilently gone about contributing to ‘informal waste recycling’, diverting in many cities and towns, overhalf of the recyclable wastes from dumpsites to the technosphere. The reviewer has based this paperon 60 peer-reviewed publications spanning a time period of 28 years – from 1995 – 2022, originatingfrom over a dozen different countries, and encompassing the social, economic and environmentaldimensions of sustainability. The discussion has been structured around the six question words –Where/Wherefrom, When, How, What, Why and Who/Whom. While there is no claim of any additionper se being made to the extant body of knowledge, the reviewer would like to describe this as anattempt to simply collate existing knowledge to serve the practical purpose of highlighting the plightof our impoverished, malnourished, oppressed brethren, to elicit appreciation, understanding andsupport for them, from policymakers in government, CSR personnel from the corporate world,journalists in the media, and most importantly, from the common urban denizens. All these entitiescan work shoulder to shoulder with the NGOs who have been relentlessly striving to help the ragpickersto ‘stay afloat’. The reviewer fondly hopes that this will motivate more concertedtransdisciplinary applied research, predicated on the Sustainable Development Goals – a collaborationamong the disciplines of healthcare, sociology, psychology, urban planning, sustainable development,environmental engineering, and even art and poetry.
Rag-pickers as benefactors and beneficiaries of the sustainable development goals : A brief literature review
Ragpickers have long led a marginalised, subliminal and deprived existence, and havesilently gone about contributing to ‘informal waste recycling’, diverting in many cities and towns, overhalf of the recyclable wastes from dumpsites to the technosphere. The reviewer has based this paperon 60 peer-reviewed publications spanning a time period of 28 years – from 1995 – 2022, originatingfrom over a dozen different countries, and encompassing the social, economic and environmentaldimensions of sustainability. The discussion has been structured around the six question words –Where/Wherefrom, When, How, What, Why and Who/Whom. While there is no claim of any additionper se being made to the extant body of knowledge, the reviewer would like to describe this as anattempt to simply collate existing knowledge to serve the practical purpose of highlighting the plightof our impoverished, malnourished, oppressed brethren, to elicit appreciation, understanding andsupport for them, from policymakers in government, CSR personnel from the corporate world,journalists in the media, and most importantly, from the common urban denizens. All these entitiescan work shoulder to shoulder with the NGOs who have been relentlessly striving to help the ragpickersto ‘stay afloat’. The reviewer fondly hopes that this will motivate more concertedtransdisciplinary applied research, predicated on the Sustainable Development Goals – a collaborationamong the disciplines of healthcare, sociology, psychology, urban planning, sustainable development,environmental engineering, and even art and poetry.
Rag-pickers as benefactors and beneficiaries of the sustainable development goals : A brief literature review
Govindarajan, Venkatesh (author)
2023-01-01
Scopus 2-s2.0-85167361013
Article (Journal)
Electronic Resource
English
DDC:
710
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