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Hervé Corvellec.

Hervé Corvellec

Professor

Hervé Corvellec.

A performative definition of waste prevention

Författare

  • Hervé Corvellec

Summary, in English

The increasing importance being placed on waste prevention in European waste governance raises the question of how waste prevention is defined in practice. This paper presents a qualitative analysis of a sample of fifty-one Swedish waste prevention initiatives with the purpose of identifying which kind of actions are imagined, promoted, and set into motion under the label of waste prevention. The analysis shows that despite their apparent variety, the initiatives in the sample boil down to three main types of actions: raising awareness about the need to prevent waste, increasing material efficiency, and developing sustainable consumption. In contradistinction to the formal definition of waste prevention in the European Waste Framework Directive (2008/98/EC), what emerges from analyzing the initiatives in the sample is a performative definition of waste prevention as something heterogeneous, contradictory, and evolving. Such a definition of waste prevention in practice provides an understanding of the organizational dynamics of waste prevention.

Avdelning/ar

  • Institutionen för tjänstevetenskap

Publiceringsår

2016

Språk

Engelska

Sidor

3-13

Publikation/Tidskrift/Serie

Waste Management: international journal of integrated waste management, science and technology

Volym

52

Dokumenttyp

Artikel i tidskrift

Förlag

Elsevier

Ämne

  • Social Sciences Interdisciplinary

Nyckelord

  • Waste prevention
  • Sustainable consumption
  • Performative definition
  • Material efficiency

Aktiv

Published

Projekt

  • From waste management to waste prevention. Closing implementation gaps through sustainable action nets

ISBN/ISSN/Övrigt

  • ISSN: 0956-053X