CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2020
| Author | Saren, Gaowa |
|---|---|
| Title | Circular Economy-based Waste Management in Urban China a Case Study of Shanghai |
| Summary | China is one of the pioneer countries to adopt the concept of circular economy and prioritized it as a national-level policy. Recently, the Chinese policy-makers at the municipal level began to turn their focus to waste management en masse. In many Chinese cities, the informal waste recycling industry had already marketized during the years of development despite administrative constraints. However, a full-fledged market-based waste industry still failed to be established. This thesis sets out to discuss waste management policy in Chinese cities in the background of the circular economy and to provide empirical evidence gathered from the field using a case study of Shanghai. From government open data and qualitative interviews with a practitioner in the industry, this thesis finds that the Shanghai government’s failure to recognize existing rules and systems of the recycling business and include the informal system into the new waste management chain are the reasons behind the lack of a market-based industry in Shanghai. Relevant policy implications are also discussed from the findings regarding Chinese cities’ future toward zero waste. |
| Supervisor | Daniel Thomas Myron Large |
| Department | Public Policy MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2020/saren_gaowa.pdf |
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