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Untapped Knowledge in India’s E-Waste Industry

A Roadmap to Strengthen the Informal Economy

Inbunden, Engelska, 2024

AvT. S. Krishnan

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This book focuses on the economic, political, and cultural factors that make up India’s “informal processors,” which are the highly networked, multi-generational systems that reuse, repurpose, and otherwise dispose of 80% of India’s electronic waste.

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Utgivningsdatum2024-01-24
Mått148 x 210 x 12 mm
Vikt283 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SeriePalgrave Advances in the Economics of Innovation and Technology
Antal sidor103
FörlagSpringer International Publishing AG
ISBN9783031502958

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T. S. Krishnan is an independent scholar with expertise working across disciplines such as supply chain management, ethnography, and sustainability. He has served as a visiting faculty member at the Indian Institute of Management Nagpur and Ashoka University. Krishnan has worked in industries including sales enablement, data science, artificial intelligence, and product management. His research on informal economy, waste management, artificial intelligence, enterprise software, radiation epidemiology, and environmental sustainability has been published in international academic journals and conferences. He received his PhD from the Indian Institute of Management Bangalore.

Chapter 1: Repositioning the “informal economy”: The hidden potential for a new circular economy in India’s electronic waste industry.- Chapter 2: “Business as Usual”: Systemic barriers to achieving sustainability in India’s e-waste processing industry.- Chapter 3: The power of markets: Economics of India’s e-waste processing industry.- Chapter 4: Specialized social networks with deep expertise: The value of cultural capital in India’s e-waste processing industry.- Chapter 5: Policy futures that leverage the strength of informal economy: Opportunities to advance circular economy and UN SDGs