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Keywords: Waste

“Garbage is Gold”: Waste-based Commodity Frontiers, Modes of Valorization and Ecological Distribution Conflicts

Seth Schindlera Global Development Institute, University of Manchester, Manchester, UKORCID Iconhttps://orcid.org/0000-0003-2233-0628View further author information
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Federico Demariab Environmental Science and Technology Institute & Department of Applied Economics, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain;c International Institute of Social Studies, Den Haag, The NetherlandsCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 52-59 | Received 21 Oct 2019, Accepted 22 Oct 2019, Published online: 03 Dec 2019

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