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Anwesha Borthakur is primarily engaged in interdisciplinary research focusing on electronic (E-waste) and textile waste governance in India, South Africa, and the European Union. She was a Marie Skłodowska Curie Postdoctoral Fellow at KU Leuven, Belgium, and is currently an affiliate of the same university. Prior to that, she completed her PhD in science policy from Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU), New Delhi. Anwesha has previously been a Landhaus Fellow at the RCC. During her Humboldt Research Fellowship for experienced researchers, she will analyze the design of textile waste policies in India and South Africa and evaluate why the local traits that are centered around reuse and recycling are absent from the countries’ policymaking. The project aims to assess why India and South Africa are yet to capitalize the local waste management approaches that would align with a circular economy system. In her project, she will expand upon the analytical and empirical scope of her existing thirteen-year research based on her experience of working on electronic waste (E-waste) governance to include textile waste.
RCC Research Project: Textile Waste in Emerging Economies: Management and Governance Towards a Circular System
Selected publications:
- “Design, Adoption and Implementation of Electronic Waste Policies in India.” Environmental Science and Pollution Research 30 (2023): 8672–81. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-022-18836-5.
- “Policy Approaches on E-Waste in the Emerging Economies: A Review of the Existing Governance with Special Reference to India and South Africa.” Journal of Cleaner Production 252 (2020): 119885.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2019.119885. - with Madhav Govind. “Computer and Mobile Phone Waste in Urban India: An Analysis from the Perspectives of Public Perception, Consumption and Disposal Behaviour.” Journal of Environmental Planning and Management 62, no. 4 (2019): 717–40. https://doi.org/10.1080/09640568.2018.1429254.
- with Madhav Govind. “Public Understandings of E-Waste and Its Disposal in Urban India: From a Review Towards a Conceptual Framework.” Journal of Cleaner Production 172 (2018): 1053–66.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jclepro.2017.10.218. - with Madhav Govind. 2017. “Emerging Trends in Consumers’ E-Waste Disposal Behaviour and Awareness: A Worldwide Overview with Special Focus on India.” Resources, Conservation and Recycling 117 (2017): 102–13.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.resconrec.2016.11.011.