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Environmentally-sound soLID waste management

Solid Waste Management and Recycling; Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya. Baud, Isa, Johan Post, and Christine Furedy (editors), Dordecht, GeoLibraries Series, No 76, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 2004, 304 Pages.

Source Separation of Household Waste Materials: Analysis of Case Studies from Pakistan, the Philippines, India, Brazil, Argentine and the Netherlands. (Joint and contributing editor with Inge Lardinois). Gouda: WASTE, 1999.

"Promoting Sustainable Consumption To Resolve Solid Waste Problems In Asian Cities." (with Ksemsan Suwarnarat) UNCHS Expert Group Meeting on Changing Consumption Patterns in Asian Cities Fukuoka, June 29 - July 1, 1998.

"Socio-environmental initiatives in solid waste management: developing international comparisons." Journal of Public Health, vol. 27, no. 2, May-August 1997, pp. 142-156.

"Waste reduction in cities of developing countries: developing frameworks to guide policies and interventions." Urban Waste Expertise Programme workshop, Rotterdam, May 1997.

International Source Book on Environmentally-Sound Technologies for Municipal Solid Waste Management. (Joint and contributing editor with L. Rosenberg). Osaka: UNEP, International Environmental Technology Centre, 1996.

"One world of waste: Should countries like India solve solid waste problems through source separation?" In Enriched by South Asia Celebrating 25 Years of Scholarship. Vol. Two: Social Sciences. Edited by E. Tepper and J. R. Wood. Montreal: Canadian Asian Studies Association, 1995, pp. 87-107.

"Garbage: exploring non-conventional options in Asian cities." Environment and Urbanization, vol. 4, no. 2, October 1992, pp. 42-61.

"Solid Waste Management, Informal Activities and Urbanization in Asia." In: Dahlan, M., A., and Hainsworth, G., B. (eds.) Population-Environment: Population quality and sustainable settlements. Halifax: EMDI (Environmental Management Development in Indonesia) Environmental Reports 36, 1995, pp. 125-132.

"Emerging Concepts of Citizen Participation, Cooperation and Education for Responsive Solid Waste Management In Asian Cities." International Expert Group Seminar on Policy Responses Towards Improving Solid waste Management In Asian Metropolises Bandung, Indonesia, 4-8 February 1991.

"Reforming Solid Waste Management: Perspectives of Concerned Citizens" (with M. S. Shivakumar). International Workshop on Solid Waste Management and Resource Mobilization. Kathmandu, November, 1990.

"Environmental Education -- Some Needs in Developing Countries." Summary of contribution to panel discussion on Education and Information, Fourth International Conference on Environmental Future, Surviving with the Biosphere, Budapest, April, 1990.

"Responsibility-Sharing In Solid Waste Management: Encouraging Citizen Participation And Cooperation In Asian Metropolises. " International Experts Meeting on Policy Responses Towards Improving Solid Waste Management in Asian Metropolises, Kitakyushu, Japan, October 16-21, 1989.

"Appropriate Technology for Urban Wastes in Asia. " Biocycle, Vol 30, No. 7, July 1989, pp. 55-59.

"Are We Wasting Valuable Trash? " York Gazette, Vol 19, No. 16, June 1989, p6. 4.

"Creative Approach to Waste Management in Kathmandu." The Rising Nepal, November 1986.

"Rehabilitation of Forested Areas in an Urban Setting." (with Michael G, Boyer and Michael Hough) Environmental Conservation, Geneva : Elsevier Sequoia S.A. Autumn 1986. 13 (3) p. 263-265.

"Environmental Perspectives on Urban Solid Waste Management." Canadian Asian Studies Association Meeting, South Asia Program, 1985.

Health aspects of solid waste management

“Reducing health risks of urban organic solid waste use.” Urban Agriculture Magazine Vol. 1, No. 3, March 2001, pp. 23-25. http://www.ruaf.org/node/146

"Solid wastes." (Sandra Cointreau-Levine, with James Listorti and C. Furedy). In J. Herzstein et al. (eds), International Occupational and Environmental Medicine, first edition. St. Louis: Mosby Year Book Inc, 1998, pp. 620-632.

"Plague And Garbage: Implications Of The Surat Outbreak (1994) For Urban Environmental Management In India." Learned Societies Conference 1995, SOUTH ASIA COUNCIL MEETING Session 14: Development, Environment, Productivity and Policy Implications for South Asia, Universite du Quebec a Montreal June 4-6.

"Solid Waste Management in Kabul Before, During and After the War (1978-1992)." ASEP Newsletter, Vol 10, No. 2, June 1994, pp.10-11.

Social aspects of solid waste management

"Social factors in the treatment and use of organic wastes in developing countries." In "Biotechnology" [ed. H. Hoelle and E. J. DaSilva], section 12, "Social, Educational and Political Aspects of Biotechnology". UNESCO-EOLSS(Encyclopedia of Life Support Systems): Cambridge, U.K. (2002-2007). [http://www.eolss.net/E6-58-toc.aspx ]

"Household-level and community actions for solid waste management and recycling in Asian cities: Recent research and projects." In A. Fernandez, K. Oya and D. Dungate (eds), Recycling in Asia: Partnerships for Responsive Solid Waste Management. Nagoya: United Nations Centre for Regional Development, 1997, pp. 13-25.

"Reflections on some dilemmas concerning waste pickers and waste recovery." Prepared for Urban Waste Expertise Programme of WASTE, May 1997. Source Book for UWEP Policy Meeting. Gouda: WASTE, 1997.

"Working with the wastepickers: Asian approaches to urban solid waste management." Alternatives, Vol. 19, No. 2, 1993, pp. 18-23.

“Women and solid wastes In poor communities.” In Infrastructure for Low-income Communities, Proceedings of WEDC conference, Loughborough: Loughborough University Press, 1991, pp. 51-54."

"Social Aspects of Waste Recovery in Asian Cities." Environmental Sanitation Reviews series, No. 30. Bangkok: Environmental Sanitation Information Centre, 1990, pp. 2-52.

"Social Considerations In Solid Waste Management In Asian Cities." Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 10, No. 3, Autumn 1989.

"Challenges in Reforming the Philosophy and Practice of Solid Waste Management: A Social Perspective." Regional Development Dialogue, Vol. 10, No. 3, Autumn 1989, pp. iii-ix.

"Socio-Political Aspects of the Recovery and Recycling of Urban Wastes in Asia" Conservation & Recycling, Vol. 7, 1984, pp. 167-173.

"The People Who Get in the Way: Changing Values in Urban Solid Waste Management" Water Science Technology. , Vol. 18, 1986, pp. 121-128.

"Social Considerations in the Recycling of Organic Wastes." International Conference on the Recycling of Organic Wastes, Hong Kong, August 1985.

"Survival strategies of the urban poor: scavenging and recuperation in Calcutta." GeoJournal, Vol. 8, 1984, pp. 129-136.

Use of urban organic wastes: Urban agriculture/ aquaculture

"Urban organic solid waste: re-use practices and issues for solid waste management in developing countries." In Isa Baud, Johan Post and Christine Furedy (editors), Solid Waste Management and Recycling; Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya. GeoLibraries Series, No 76, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004, pp. 197-211.

"Demand for compost from urban organic solid wastes in Hyderabad." In Isa Baud, Johan Post and Christine Furedy (editors), Solid Waste Management and Recycling; Actors, Partnerships and Policies in Hyderabad, India and Nairobi, Kenya. GeoLibraries Series, No 76, Kluwer Academic Publishers, Dordrecht, 2004, pp. 229-240.

"Organic waste at low cost: dilemmas of a transition period." Urban Agriculture Magazine, Number 6, March 2002, pp. 38-39. www.ruaf.org/no6/38_39.htm

"Urban waste and rural farmers: Enabling low-cost organic waste reuse in developing countries." Proceedings of R’02: Recovery, Recycling, Reintegration: 6th World Congress on Integrated Resources Management, Geneva, February 2002.

"Reuse of waste for food production in Asian cities: Health and economic perspectives." (With Virginia Maclaren and Joseph Whitney). In Mustafa Koc, Rod MacRea, Luc Mougeot and Jennifer Welsh (eds.), For Hunger-proof Cities. Ottawa: International Development Research Centre and Centre for Studies in Food Security, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto 1999, pp. 136-145. http://web.idrc.ca/en/ev-30609-201-1-DO_TOPIC.html

"Solid waste management and urban agriculture: planning dilemmas in developing countries." Joint International Congress, Association of Collegiate Schools of Planning and Association of European Schools of Planning, Ryerson Polytechnic University, Toronto, July 1996. www.cityfarmer.org/Furedy.html

"Social aspects of human excreta reuse: implications for aquaculture in Asia." In Peter Edwards & Roger Pullin (eds) Wastefed Aquaculture. Bangkok: Asian Institute of Technology, 1991, pp. 251-266.

"Urban wastes and sustainable development." In N. Polunin and J. Burnett (eds.) Maintenance of the Biosphere. Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press, 1990, pp. 213-218."

"Social Aspects of Excreta Reuse-A Study." Sulabh India, Vol III, No. 8, August 1989, pp.49-55.

"Incidental greening - saving resources in Asian Cities." In D. Gordon (ed.) Green Cities. Montreal: Black Rose, 1989, pp. 43-53.

"Natural Recycling in Asian Cities." Raise the Stakes (Planet Drum Review), No. 13, Winter 1988, pp. 6-7.

"Social Considerations In the Recycling of Organic Wastes." Resources and Conservation, Vol. 13, 1987, pp.103-108.

"From Waste Land to Waste-Not Land: The Role of the Salt Lakes, East Calcutta, In Waste Treatment and Recycling, 1845-1930." In Pradip Sinha (ed.) Calcutta: The Urban Experience. Essays in Honour of Prof. Misith R. Ray. Calcutta: Riddhi-India, 1987, pp.145-153.

"Wastes and the Urban Environment: Perspectives on People Animals and their Wastes." Water and Sanitation at Mid-Decade, Calcutta, January, 1985. (Institution of Public Health Engineers, India with WEDC, Loughborough University of Technology and British Deputy High Commission, Calcutta).

"Resource conserving traditions and the creative use of urban wastes: The sewage-fed fisheries and garbage farms of Calcutta." (with Dhrubajyoti Ghosh). Conservation and Recycling, Vol. 7, Nos. 2-4, 1984, pp. 159-165.

Waste recycling in Asia

"Sustainable consumption and municipal solid waste reduction in developing countries of Asia.” In V. Savage and K. Ray (eds), Promoting Sustainable Consumption in Asian Cities. Nairobi: UNCHS (Habitat), 1998, pp. 86-107. See also: http://www.gdrc.org/uem/waste/initiatives.html for an excerpt from this paper.

"Socio-environmental initiatives in solid waste management in Southerncities: developing international comparisons." Journal of Public Health, Vol.27, No. 2, May-August 1997, pp. 142-156.

"Solid wastes in the waste economy: Socio-cultural aspects." Workshop on The Waste Economy, Sponsored by: National Institute for Scientific and Technical Forecasting and Strategy Studies, Hanoi; University of Toronto; International Development Research Centre, Ottawa, Hanoi, August 22-25, 1994. www.utoronto.ca/env/vietpro/waste/Chapt4.htm

“Decentralized Composting: An Emerging Techniue of Solid Waste Management.” ASEP News, Vol. 10, No. 1, March 1994, pp. 1, 12.

"Recovery of Wastes for Recycling in Beijing". Environmental Conservation, Vol.20, No.1, Spring 1993, pp.79-82.

"Beijing's Solid Waste Recovery System ". (With Shi Yang). ASEP News , Vol. 9, No.1, March 1993, pg. 6..

“Street pickers in Calcutta slums.” (With M. Alamgir). Environment and Urbanization, Vol. 4, No. 2, October 1992, pp. 54-59.

“Small Business fron Urban Wastes - Shoe Renovation in Delhi.” ASEP News, Vol. 8, No. 2, June 1992, pg. 11.

“Source Separation in Developing Countries.” Warmer Bulletin, Vol. 30, August 1991, pp. 12-13.

"Waste recovery in China: Formal and informal approaches," BioCycle, June 1990, pp. 80-84

“Resource recovery in Chinese cities.” (H. Sun, first author) Resource Recycling, Vol. 8, No. 1, March/April 1989, pp. 30-31, 58-59.

“Radio Beijing Interview Re: Symposium on Managing Solid Wastes in Asian Cities.” Sept. 11, 1988.

“Enterprise with Urban Wastes.” Development and Cooperation, No. 6, 1988, pp.18-19.

“Municipal waste and resource recovery in Chinese cities.” (With H. C. Sun). ASEP News , Vol. 2, Autumn 1987, pp. 6-7.

“Recycled waste inspires study.” The London Free Press, June 6, 1987.

“Self Help in Household Waste Management An Example from Suburban Bangkok.”Asian Environment, Vol 10., No. 1, 1986, pp. 56-60. Shorter Version Published as "Self Help in Household Waste Management." ASEP News, Vol. 2, No. 2, August 1986, pp. 1-2.

Waste-to-energy

"Socially-responsive energy from urban solid wastes in developing countries."(With Alison Doig). In Velma .I. Grover, Vaneeta K. Grover and William Hogland (eds), Recovering Energy from Waste. Enfield (NH) USA and Plymouth UK: Science Publishers, Inc. 2002, pp. 307-314.

Freedom Of Speech, Academic Freedom and Higher Education

"From the Socratic to the Sophistic" Quadrant, Volume LVI, Number 11, November 2012.

"How Free Should Free Speech Be? Philosophical Perspectives." Symposium, University of Sydney, July 2009: Summary notes prepared by Christine Furedy

"The Use and Abuse of Systemic Discrimination." (Philip Sullivan, first author). www.safs.ca/sept2000/useabuse.html

"False doctrines: Systemic Discrimination" (Philip Sullivan, first author) University of Toronto Bulletin, April 2000. http://www.news.utoronto.ca/bin/thoughts/forum000424.asp

"On Strengthening the Socratic Strain in Higher Education." (John J. Furedy, first author). Australian Journal of Education, Vol. 30, No. 3, 1986, 241-225.

"On Strengthening the Socratic Strain in Higher Education (Hungarian Translation)." (John J. Furedy, first author).

"Critical thinking: towards research and dialogue." (John J. Furedy, first author). In J. Donald and A. M. Sullivan (eds.). Using Research to Improve University Teaching. San Francisco: Jossey Bass, 1985, pp. 51-69.

"Open Book Examinations: Not an Open and Shut Case But Worth Considering. " (with John J. Furedy) Orientations, Volume 4, Number 2, December 1983.

"Ways to Promote Critical Thinking in higher Education." (with John J. Furedy) The Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia NEWS , Vol. 5, No. 1, March 1983.

"Socratic versus Sophistic strains in the teaching of undergraduate psychology: Implicit conflicts made explicit." (John J. Furedy, first author). Teaching of Psychology, Vol. 9, No. 1, February, 1982, pp. 14-19.

"Teaching Undergraduates the Philosophy of Psychology: The Method of Criticized Introspection." (John J. Furedy, first author). Teaching of Psychology, Vol. 8, No. 1, February, 1981, pp. 47-49.

"Course design for critical thinking," Improving College and University Teaching, Vol. 27, No. 3, 1979, pp. 99-101.

"On The Definition Of Professionals In Staff Development Programmes." Impetus, March, 1979, pp. 9-11.

"Improving lecturing in higher education," Canadian Journal of Higher Education, Vol. 9, No. 1, 1979 pp. 45-54.

"Modeling the realities of the research experience: collaboration against common and merciless foes." (John J. Furedy, first author). Teaching and Psychology, Vol. 3, No. 4, October 1977, pp. 107-110.

KolKata (Calcutta)

"Book Review of Calcutta Poor: Elegies on a City Above Pretense." By Frederic C. Thomas, in Pacific Affairs, Vol. 71 No. 4, Winter 98-99, pp. 585-586.

"Whose responsibility? Dilemmas of Calcutta's busti policy in the nineteenth century," South Asia (NS), Vol. 5, No. 2, 1982, pp. 24-46.

"British Tradesmen of Calcutta 1830-1900: A Preliminary Study of Their Economic and Political Roles." in C.B. Sealy (ed.) Women Politics and Literature in Bengal. east Lansing: Asian Studies Center, Michigan State University, 1981, pp. 43-62.

"Development of modern elite retailing in Eastern India 1880-1920." Indian Economic and Social History Review, Vol. 16, No. 4, 1980, pp. 378-394.

"The Informal Sector in Calcutta: Issues for Anaysis." Canadian Society for Asian Studies Conference, Montreal, May 1980.

"Hall & Anderson." In B. Sarkar (ed.), Capital Book of Nostalgia, Calcutta, Capital Press, 1981, pp.17-18.

"Pioneers in Leather Goods." In B. Sarkar (ed.), Capital Book of Nostalgia, Calcutta, Capital Press, 1980, pp.16-17.

"Indianization of Retail Trade." Capital, April 14, 1980, pp 23-24.

"Series of Articles on the History of Retail Trade in Calcutta." Capital, Vol 183, No. 4587, December 24, 1979, pp 4-10.

"Retail Trade in Calcutta." Capital, Vol 183, No. 4587, December 24, 1979, pp 4-10.

"The early history of Morrison and Cottle (Private) Ltd., a producer-retail enterprise of Calcutta." Bengal Past and Present, Vol. 98, Pt. 1, 1979, pp. 1-9.

"New men and political clubs in Calcutta in the 1870's and 1880's: a colonial mix of ideology and self-interest." Indian Journal of Politics, Vol. XIII, Nos. 1 & 2, 1979, pp. 63-73.

"City of Scarcity." In Nelson Wiesman ed. The City and the Camera, Symposium Proceedings, Urban Studies Programme, York University, March 1979, pp. 21-25.

"Lord Curzon and the reform of the Calcutta Corporation, 1899: a case study in imperial decision-making." South Asia, New Series, Vol. 1, No. 1, March 1978, pp. 75-89.

"Contrasting Models in the Development of Municipal Administration in Calcutta." In Donald B. Rosenthal (eds), The City in Indian Politics, Faridabad: Thomson Press (India) 1976, pp. 152-172.

"Muslim participation in colonial local administration, the case of Calcutta, 1875-1900." Indian Journal of Politics, Vol. 9, No. 2, December 1975, pp. 163-180.

"Interest groups and municipal management in Calcutta." Historical Papers 1973, Canadian Historical Association, pp. 192-211.

"The Bhadralok and Municipal Regorm in Calcutta 1875-1890." (Working Paper), Invited Seminar, Institute of Asian and Slavonic Research, University of British Columbia, 1972.