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	Campania, where Naples is located, is among the poorest and most densely populated regions in Italy. Beginning in the 1980s, the region has been facing a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping. During 1994-2009, the northern part of Campania was even living in an “urban waste emergency” and the illegal disposal of hazardous waste has been continuous until the present (De Rosa, 2014). In 2008, residents from the working-class neighbourhood of Pianura fiercely resisted the reopening of a landfill that would further expose them to toxic pollution. However, with no regional waste management plan in place, this region's main landfill became overfilled with both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, with waste also exported to Campania from northern Italy.		Campania, where Naples is located, is among the poorest and most densely populated regions in Italy. Beginning in the 1980s, the region has been facing a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping. During 1994-2009, the northern part of Campania was even living in an “urban waste emergency” and the illegal disposal of hazardous waste has been continuous until the present (De Rosa, 2014). In 2008, residents from the working-class neighbourhood of Pianura fiercely resisted the reopening of a landfill that would further expose them to toxic pollution. However, with no regional waste management plan in place, this region's main landfill became overfilled with both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, with waste also exported to Campania from northern Italy.

	This case speaks to uneven patterns of environmental pollution through waste dumping activities facilitated by and organized by the local mafia. It also attests to the historical and continued dumping of garbage near inhabited but marginalized areas of the South of Italy, causing high rates of cancer and other (unrecognized and often denied) health problems to the local communities. Findings also describe how “the explosion of violence was the result of making peripheries into ‘‘social dumps’’ as a consequence of the gentrification of the inner city”.		This case speaks to uneven patterns of environmental pollution through waste dumping activities facilitated by and organized by the local mafia. It also attests to the historical and continued dumping of garbage near inhabited but marginalized areas of the South of Italy, causing high rates of cancer and other (unrecognized and often denied) health problems to the local communities. Findings also describe how “the explosion of violence was the result of making peripheries into ‘‘social dumps’’ as a consequence of the gentrification of the inner city”. [Source: LARES project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], (Armiero & D’Alisa, 2012<ref>Armiero, M., & D’Alisa, G. (2012). Rights of resistance: The garbage struggles for environmental justice in Campania, Italy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(4), 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.724200</ref>; De Rosa, 2014<ref>De Rosa, S. (2014). Interview with researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on the Campania waste conflict. Undisciplined Environments.</ref>)]

	[Source: LARES project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], (Armiero & D’Alisa, 2012<ref>Armiero, M., & D’Alisa, G. (2012). Rights of resistance: The garbage struggles for environmental justice in Campania, Italy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(4), 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.724200</ref>; De Rosa, 2014<ref>De Rosa, S. (2014). Interview with researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on the Campania waste conflict. Undisciplined Environments.</ref>)]

	[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]		[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]

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	[Source: LARES project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], (Armiero & D’Alisa, 2012<ref>Armiero, M., & D’Alisa, G. (2012). Rights of resistance: The garbage struggles for environmental justice in Campania, Italy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(4), 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.724200</ref>; De Rosa, 2014<ref>De Rosa, S. (2014). Interview with researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on the Campania waste conflict. Undisciplined Environments.</ref>)]		[Source: LARES project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], (Armiero & D’Alisa, 2012<ref>Armiero, M., & D’Alisa, G. (2012). Rights of resistance: The garbage struggles for environmental justice in Campania, Italy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(4), 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.724200</ref>; De Rosa, 2014<ref>De Rosa, S. (2014). Interview with researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on the Campania waste conflict. Undisciplined Environments.</ref>)]


	[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]		[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]

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	==Ways forward==		==Ways forward==

	Thinking about health equity and justice when planning urban sustainability interventions and policy, emerges as of core important for just and sustainable cities. Environmental health needs to be considered also in a more systemic and intersectional way: not only must we see the synergistic way in which health vulnerabilities are created in urban environments (~~through, for example,~~ urban mobility, waste management, food ~~access~~, industrial pollution and housing), but also the global networks of vulnerability production relating to the economic activity, consumption patterns and externalisation of environmental health costs to vulnerable populations beyond the borders of one single city.		Thinking about health equity and justice when planning urban sustainability interventions and policy, emerges as of core important for just and sustainable cities. Environmental health needs to be considered also in a more systemic and intersectional way: not only must we see the synergistic way in which health vulnerabilities are created in urban environments (including inequalities of access or unfit services and policies around urban mobility, waste management, healthy food, industrial pollution and housing), but also the global networks of vulnerability production relating to the economic activity, consumption patterns and externalisation of environmental health costs to vulnerable populations beyond the borders of one single city.

	==References==		==References==

Panagiota Kotsila at 12:19, 2 September 2020

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	This driver links to the following research projects: LARES [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], EVALUATE [https://urban-energy.org/], TESS [http://www.tess-transition.eu/], URBLIV [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/272763].		This driver links to the following research projects: LARES [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], EVALUATE [https://urban-energy.org/], TESS [http://www.tess-transition.eu/], URBLIV [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/272763].

			==Ways forward==

			Thinking about health equity and justice when planning urban sustainability interventions and policy, emerges as of core important for just and sustainable cities. Environmental health needs to be considered also in a more systemic and intersectional way: not only must we see the synergistic way in which health vulnerabilities are created in urban environments (through, for example, urban mobility, waste management, food access, industrial pollution and housing), but also the global networks of vulnerability production relating to the economic activity, consumption patterns and externalisation of environmental health costs to vulnerable populations beyond the borders of one single city.

	==References==		==References==

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	<b>Waste dumping in Campania</b>		<b>Waste dumping in Campania, Italy</b>

	Campania, where Naples is located, is among the poorest and most densely populated regions in Italy. Beginning in the 1980s, the region has been facing a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping. During 1994-2009, the northern part of Campania was even living in an “urban waste emergency” and the illegal disposal of hazardous waste has been continuous until the present (De Rosa, 2014). In 2008, residents from the working-class neighbourhood of Pianura fiercely resisted the reopening of a landfill that would further expose them to toxic pollution. However, with no regional waste management plan in place, this region's main landfill became overfilled with both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, with waste also exported to Campania from northern Italy.		Campania, where Naples is located, is among the poorest and most densely populated regions in Italy. Beginning in the 1980s, the region has been facing a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping. During 1994-2009, the northern part of Campania was even living in an “urban waste emergency” and the illegal disposal of hazardous waste has been continuous until the present (De Rosa, 2014). In 2008, residents from the working-class neighbourhood of Pianura fiercely resisted the reopening of a landfill that would further expose them to toxic pollution. However, with no regional waste management plan in place, this region's main landfill became overfilled with both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, with waste also exported to Campania from northern Italy.

Panagiota Kotsila at 12:24, 1 September 2020

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	"~~Racialized or ethnically exclusionary urbanization~~" as a driver of injustice refers unequal exposure to harmful and health-impairing pollutants, conditions and urban environments and/or unequal access to safe and healthy environments.		"Uneven environmental health and pollution patterns" as a driver of injustice refers unequal exposure to harmful and health-impairing pollutants, conditions and urban environments and/or unequal access to safe and healthy environments.

	==General introduction==		==General introduction==

Panagiota Kotsila at 12:23, 1 September 2020

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	==Links to projects==		==Links to projects==

	This driver links to the following research projects:		This driver links to the following research projects: LARES [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], EVALUATE [https://urban-energy.org/], TESS [http://www.tess-transition.eu/], URBLIV [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/272763].



			==References==



	[[Category:Drivers]]		[[Category:Drivers]]

Panagiota Kotsila: /* Ways forward */

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	[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]		[[File:NaplesLARES.png\|400px\|thumb\|left\|Photo by Chris Beckett/Flickr. The Naples waste management crisis has lasted nearly 40 years and threatens public and environmental health throughout the Northeastern part of the Campania region, earning it the nickname, the ‘triangle of death’.]]

	~~==Ways forward==~~


	==Links to projects==		==Links to projects==

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	==Ways forward==		==Ways forward==

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			<b>Waste dumping in Campania</b>

			Campania, where Naples is located, is among the poorest and most densely populated regions in Italy. Beginning in the 1980s, the region has been facing a series of events surrounding the lack of waste collection and illegal toxic waste dumping. During 1994-2009, the northern part of Campania was even living in an “urban waste emergency” and the illegal disposal of hazardous waste has been continuous until the present (De Rosa, 2014). In 2008, residents from the working-class neighbourhood of Pianura fiercely resisted the reopening of a landfill that would further expose them to toxic pollution. However, with no regional waste management plan in place, this region's main landfill became overfilled with both hazardous and non-hazardous waste, with waste also exported to Campania from northern Italy.

			This case speaks to uneven patterns of environmental pollution through waste dumping activities facilitated by and organized by the local mafia. It also attests to the historical and continued dumping of garbage near inhabited but marginalized areas of the South of Italy, causing high rates of cancer and other (unrecognized and often denied) health problems to the local communities. Findings also describe how “the explosion of violence was the result of making peripheries into ‘‘social dumps’’ as a consequence of the gentrification of the inner city”.

			[Source: LARES project [https://cordis.europa.eu/project/id/235728/reporting], (Armiero & D’Alisa, 2012<ref>Armiero, M., & D’Alisa, G. (2012). Rights of resistance: The garbage struggles for environmental justice in Campania, Italy. Capitalism Nature Socialism, 23(4), 52–68. https://doi.org/10.1080/10455752.2012.724200</ref>; De Rosa, 2014<ref>De Rosa, S. (2014). Interview with researcher Salvatore Paolo De Rosa on the Campania waste conflict. Undisciplined Environments.</ref>)]

	~~[Source: NATURVATION [https://naturvation.eu/] and GREENLULUS [http://www.bcnuej.org/projects/greenlulus/] projects; including personal communication.]~~

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