green city or grey city? An urban environmental security perspective on Jakarta’s waste management system
- DOI
- 10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.4How to use a DOI?
- Keywords
- urban environmental security, waste management, green city and grey city, Jakarta
- Abstract
Similar to other megacities, waste disposal is one of the most serious problems in Jakarta. Data from the local government showed that every day Jakarta produces more than 27.966 M³ or 6.000 tons of waste, and with 5% annual growth, 55.37% of waste is organic and the rest is non-organic. The problems lie in the substance and the quantity of waste that contaminates the environment and threatens the health of the community. In addition, a poor waste management practices had been triggered conflict between Jakarta and its surrounding areas. This essay aims to analyze the impacts of a conventional perspective and to envisage the viability of a new perspective of waste management in Jakarta. To do so, I will begin with approaching the three characteristics (suppliers, backyard, and fixers) of the center-periphery relationship that come out of the conventional city development perspective. The new perspective that I propose is a shifting from “grey city” to “green city” in the framework of the urban system and its economic and political consequences in order to reshape a city-rural sustainable relationship. The shift will bring insight for better waste management.
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- © 2018, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.
- Open Access
- This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
Cite this article
TY - CONF AU - Ucu Martanto PY - 2018/12 DA - 2018/12 TI - green city or grey city? An urban environmental security perspective on Jakarta’s waste management system BT - Proceedings of the International Conference on Contemporary Social and Political Affairs (IcoCSPA 2017) PB - Atlantis Press SP - 20 EP - 23 SN - 2352-5398 UR - https://doi.org/10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.4 DO - 10.2991/icocspa-17.2018.4 ID - Martanto2018/12 ER -