NEW COLLABORATION WINS COMMUNITY WASTE GRANT

A collaboration between the Department of Environmental Science and Bradford Centre for International Development has won a grant of £42,929 to study the UK's commitment to Community Waste Projects (CWPs).

The research, to be carried out by Dr Liz Sharp (pictured left) from Environmental Sciences and Dr Frances Cleaver from Bradford Centre for International Development, is jointly funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Shell Better Britain Campaign.

The research was developed in collaboration with Bradford Environmental Action Trust and the Community Recycling Network. The research will explore what the UK's commitment to Sustainable Development (SD) has meant in practice through examining one area of SD activity - that of CWPs.

Liz said: "A working definition of CWPs are those projects that have the explicit objective of encouraging the local minimisation, reuse or recycling of waste but which additionally aim to provide employment, education, social development or an improved environment in a specific locality. "These multiple goals mean that CWPs exemplify the type of activity that might be expected in a 'sustainable society'.

"The study of CWPs will characterise the nature and extent of SD that is currently being implemented in Britain. It will examine whether the practice of SD bears out the assumptions of SD theory, that synergy will be achieved between economic, environmental, social and community governance objectives. It will also develop new ways of conceptualising SD, and provide information on the initiation, management and achievements of CWPs that will be fed back to the practitioner and funding communities."

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