Bharati Chaturvedi
Biographic Data
| ID | 1686141 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Bharati Chaturvedi |
| GIVEN NAMES | Bharati |
| FAMILY NAME | Chaturvedi |
| SIGNATURE | CHATURVEDI B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group, 238, Siddhartha Enclave, New Delhi-l10014. |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 3 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 6 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Poverty, Provisioning and the Pandemic
The containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have had severe economic consequences on the lives of the urban informal poor in India. Several scholars have commented on the vital yet insufficient role that government-run food relief programmes, mutual aid practices and private charity have played in addressing hunger during lockdown periods. This article investigates the impact of lockdown measures on food security among waste pickers in …
Air Pollution, Waste Management and Livelihoods
While the problem of Delhi's air pollution is well recognized, as is the class bias of the judiciary in targeting certain sources of air pollution over others, what is less will understood are the unintended consequences of air pollution interventions on indoor and outdoor air quality. This paper shows how the National Green Tribunal has targeted one source of air pollution in recommending waste-to-energy technologies that deprive waste pickers o…
Ration
Research Article| August 01 2020 Ration Bharati Chaturvedi Bharati Chaturvedi Bharati Chaturvedi is the founder and director of Chintan (www.chintan-india.org), an India-based nonprofit working on environmental issues related to the circular economy, consumption, and air pollution with a focus on women, children, and the poor. Bharati is a columnist on environmental issues with the Hindustan Times, one of India's leading newspapers. Her interest …
Poverty and development
The concept of poverty is understood differently by people across the globe. Despite this conceptual limitation, higher economic growth in the last few decades in many countries has helped reduce extreme global poverty. The growth process has been supported by globalization. The number of global poor is, however, still quite large and more than the entire population of USA, UK, France and Russia. Their numbers have gone up by 100 million in Sub S…
A Waste of Wealth
India has one of the world's highest recycling rates, thanks to an efficient chain comprising wastepickers, traders, and reprocessors. They have created their own livelihoods, with little external investment. As India urbanizes, waste is becoming the focus of many more cities. Their models place trust in waste handling by large waste handling companies, who have displaced wastepickers in the past. The companies' own failure to deliver has also no…
Waste-handlers and recycling in urban India
All recycling in India is undertaken by (and via) the informal sector. This sector includes waste-pickers, small middlemen, transporters, larger middlemen and Anally, reprocessors. These self-employed people play a very important role in urban waste management as they provide a service which the urban municipalities cannot provide given their current institutional framework. Although the sector of informal waste managers is critical to solid wast…
Air Pollution, Waste Management and Livelihoods
While the problem of Delhi's air pollution is well recognized, as is the class bias of the judiciary in targeting certain sources of air pollution over others, what is less will understood are the unintended consequences of air pollution interventions on indoor and outdoor air quality. This paper shows how the National Green Tribunal has targeted one source of air pollution in recommending waste-to-energy technologies that deprive waste pickers o…
Waste-handlers and recycling in urban India
All recycling in India is undertaken by (and via) the informal sector. This sector includes waste-pickers, small middlemen, transporters, larger middlemen and Anally, reprocessors. These self-employed people play a very important role in urban waste management as they provide a service which the urban municipalities cannot provide given their current institutional framework. Although the sector of informal waste managers is critical to solid wast…
Waste-handlers and recycling in urban India
All recycling in India is undertaken by (and via) the informal sector. This sector includes waste-pickers, small middlemen, transporters, larger middlemen and Anally, reprocessors. These self-employed people play a very important role in urban waste management as they provide a service which the urban municipalities cannot provide given their current institutional framework. Although the sector of informal waste managers is critical to solid wast…
A Waste of Wealth
India has one of the world's highest recycling rates, thanks to an efficient chain comprising wastepickers, traders, and reprocessors. They have created their own livelihoods, with little external investment. As India urbanizes, waste is becoming the focus of many more cities. Their models place trust in waste handling by large waste handling companies, who have displaced wastepickers in the past. The companies' own failure to deliver has also no…
Poverty and development
The concept of poverty is understood differently by people across the globe. Despite this conceptual limitation, higher economic growth in the last few decades in many countries has helped reduce extreme global poverty. The growth process has been supported by globalization. The number of global poor is, however, still quite large and more than the entire population of USA, UK, France and Russia. Their numbers have gone up by 100 million in Sub S…
Ration
Research Article| August 01 2020 Ration Bharati Chaturvedi Bharati Chaturvedi Bharati Chaturvedi is the founder and director of Chintan (www.chintan-india.org), an India-based nonprofit working on environmental issues related to the circular economy, consumption, and air pollution with a focus on women, children, and the poor. Bharati is a columnist on environmental issues with the Hindustan Times, one of India's leading newspapers. Her interest …
Air Pollution, Waste Management and Livelihoods
While the problem of Delhi's air pollution is well recognized, as is the class bias of the judiciary in targeting certain sources of air pollution over others, what is less will understood are the unintended consequences of air pollution interventions on indoor and outdoor air quality. This paper shows how the National Green Tribunal has targeted one source of air pollution in recommending waste-to-energy technologies that deprive waste pickers o…
Poverty, Provisioning and the Pandemic
The containment measures during the COVID-19 pandemic have had severe economic consequences on the lives of the urban informal poor in India. Several scholars have commented on the vital yet insufficient role that government-run food relief programmes, mutual aid practices and private charity have played in addressing hunger during lockdown periods. This article investigates the impact of lockdown measures on food security among waste pickers in …
Economics (5 works) · Business (4 works) · Economic growth (4 works) · Agriculture (3 works) · Engineering (3 works) · Geography (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Poverty (3 works) · Food Waste Reduction and Sustainability (2 works) · Livelihood (2 works)