Conserving Environment and Creating Employment: Ripple Effects of the Recycling Industry

dc.contributor.author	Pandey, Nisha
dc.contributor.author	Sharma, Deepti
dc.date.accessioned	2015-04-09T10:01:26Z
dc.date.available	2015-04-09T10:01:26Z
dc.date.issued	2015-02-18
dc.identifier.isbn	9789380574783
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/151
dc.description	Ecopreneurship	en_US
dc.description.abstract	Thisstudy exploresthe dynamics of the plastic waste recycling industry at Dharavi, Mumbai. Despite being of immense economic importance, this sectoris yet to be investigated in thorough detail.Dharavi is a thriving hub of 10-15000small-scale industrial units, including waste recycling, pottery, leather tanning, shoemaking, textile and bakery.This study is based on primary and secondary data regarding the plastic waste recycling units in Dharavi, with special stress on its ripple effect on employment and indirect economic activities.The ripple effect creates some induced impacts. The induced impacts are based on changes in income that occur from direct and indirect economic activity.	en_US
dc.description.sponsorship	Centre for Research in Entrepreneurship Education and Development (CREED)	en_US
dc.language.iso	en	en_US
dc.publisher	Bookwell Delhi	en_US
dc.relation.ispartofseries	Eleventh Biennial Conference;S.No. 140
dc.subject	Ecopreneurship	en_US
dc.title	Conserving Environment and Creating Employment: Ripple Effects of the Recycling Industry	en_US
dc.title.alternative		en_US
dc.type	Article	en_US