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Are You Sure You Want to Waste Policy Chances? Waste Generation, Landfill Diversion and Environmental Policy Effectiveness in the EU15

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, Francesco; Iafolla, … - 2010

seem to impact instead on landfill diversion. Nevertheless, country heterogeneity matters: SURE based analyses show that EU … policy strategy, which is now aimed mainly at landfill diversion, within a framework strongly oriented to allowing countries …

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Waste Generation, Incineration and Landfill Diversion : De-Coupling Trends, Socio-Economic Drivers and Policy Effectiveness in the EU

Mazzanti, Massimiliano - 2009

comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to … to income drivers appear lower than in the past. Landfill and other policy effects do not seem to provide backward … incentives for waste prevention. Regarding landfill and incineration, the two trends, as expected, are respectively decreasing …

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Flexible Waste Management Under Uncertainty

Di Corato, Luca; Montinari, Natalia - 2013

can, by undertaking an irreversible investment, adopt a flexible program which integrates the existing landfill strategy …

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Municipal Waste Collection : Market Competition and the EU Policy

Reggiani, Carlo - 2016

Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Sufficiency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers,...

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Waste Generation and Landfill Diversion Dynamics : Decentralised Management and Spatial Effects

Nicolli, Francesco; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna - 2010

This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel … first signals of increasing relative delinking and robust average landfill diversion. Spatial effects seem to be negligible …

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Embedding Landfill Diversion in Economic, Geographical and Policy Settings Panel Based Evidence from Italy

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Montini, Anna; Nicolli, Francesco - 2008

factors, as population density and other waste management opportunity: local opportunity costs and landfill externalities … matter in shaping waste policies and local commitment to landfill diversion. But not only structural factors are relevant. If … on the one hand landfill taxation is a significant driver of the phenomenon, even at the more coherent regional level …

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Designing Carbon Taxation Schemes for Automobiles : A Simulation Exercise for Germany

Adamou, Adamos; Clerides, Sofronis; Zachariadis, Theodoros - 2012

Vehicle taxation based on CO2 emissions is increasingly being adopted worldwide in order to shift consumer purchases to low-carbon cars, yet little is known about the effectiveness and overall economic impact of these schemes. We focus on feebate schemes, which impose a fee on high-carbon...

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Socioeconomic Factors and Water Quality in California

Farzin, Yeganeh Hossein; Grogan, Kelly A. - 2013

We investigate the relationships between water quality and socioeconomic factors in California at the county level for the years 1993 to 2006 using 24 water quality indicators coming from seven different types of water bodies. We estimate these relationships using three classes of models: the...

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Environmental Security and its Implications for China’s Foreign Relations

Zhang, ZhongXiang; Mochizuki, Junko - 2014

China’s emerging standing in the world demands a major rethinking of its diplomatic strategies. Given its population size, geographical scale, economic power and military presence, China is poised to play a larger political role in the twenty-first century, and is thus perceived by the...

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Atmospheric Pollution and Consumption Patterns in Spain : An Input-Output Approach

Serrano, Mònica; Roca Jusmet, Jordi - 2013

This paper analyses the relationship between Spanish household consumption patterns and atmospheric pollutant emissions in 2000. Applying an input-output approach we estimate the relative responsibility of different types of households in the emissions of nine different atmospheric pollutants:...

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