Waste and Environmental Policy (Routledge Explorations in Environmental Economics)

This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns. It takes a socio-economic and policy-oriented perspective and provides empirical evidence at EU and regional level. The EU and Italy are taken as relevant case studies given the disparities in environmental performances between less and more developed areas. The rich and various empirical evidence shows that a robust delinking between waste generation and economic growth is still not present, thus future policies should directly address the problem at the source by targeting waste generation in EU countries. Some structural factors like population density and urbanisation present themselves as relevant drivers of both waste management and landfill diversion. Nevertheless, economic and structural factors alone are not sufficient to improve waste performances. Though waste policies are to be redesigned by covering the entire area of waste management, some first signals of policy effectiveness are arising. This work will be of most interest to those students of environmental economics and environmental sciences, as well as policy makers, waste utility managers and companies in the waste management sector. Book Cover......Page 1 Title......Page 6 Copyright......Page 7 Contents......Page 10 Figures......Page 12 Tables......Page 13 Contributors......Page 15 Preface......Page 17 Acknowledgements......Page 20 Abbreviations......Page 21 Introduction: Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini......Page 24 Part I Waste generation, waste management and waste disposal: Macroeconomic analyses of delinking and policy effectiveness......Page 36 1 Delinking and environmental Kuznets curves for waste indicators in Europe: Evidence on municipal solid waste and packaging waste......Page 38 2 Waste generation and waste disposal: Evidence on socio-economic and policy drivers in the EU......Page 57 3 Municipal waste generation, management and greenhouse gas emissions......Page 95 4 The drivers of MSW generation, disposal and recycling: Examining OECD inter-country differences......Page 114 Part II Waste generation, waste management and land.ll diversion: policy-oriented and regionally based analyses from Italy......Page 128 5 Municipal waste generation, socio-economic drivers and waste management instruments: Regional and provincial panel data evidence from Italy......Page 130 6 Embedding landfill diversion in economic, geographical and policy settings: Regional and provincial evidence from Italy......Page 149 7 Reducing uncertainty in the monetary assessment of environmental liabilities from waste landfilling......Page 177 8 Separation of organic waste and composting: European policies and local choices......Page 205 Index......Page 228 Edited By Massimiliano Mazzanti And Anna Montini. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.