Die europäische Integration unterlag immer dem Anspruch der Deregulierung. Inwieweit sie dem gerecht wird, ist nicht umfassend geklärt. In dieser Arbeit wird die Politik der EU in sechs Branchenanalysen untersucht: Verkehr-, Agrar-, Finanz- und Energieversorgungswirtschaft sowie...

Die Entsorgungswirtschaft wird mehr als viele andere Branchen von staatlichen Regulierungsmaßnahmen geprägt. Um einem drohenden Entsorgungsnotstand entgegenzuwirken, entschloß sich die Bundesregierung Anfang der neunziger Jahre zu einer Neuordnung der Abfallwirtschaft. Mit der Einführung von...

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,...

One third of the entire food produced for our consumption is either lost or wasted at some point of the food supply chain. The problem of food waste does not only intensify the elementary problem of food insecurity in wasting precious nourishment - originally intended to be consumed - connected...

Stetig wachsende Mengen an Siedlungsabfällen und die damit verbundenen Umweltprobleme sind ein zentrales Thema in der von Politikern und Abfallexperten geführten internationalen Diskussion. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen ökonomischen Instrumente zum Abfallmanagement,...

The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and nearly no municipalities have a rate above 70%. Given...

Stetig wachsende Mengen an Siedlungsabfällen und die damit verbundenen Umweltprobleme sind ein zentrales Thema in der von Politikern und Abfallexperten geführten internationalen Diskussion. Der Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über die aktuellen ökonomischen Instrumente zum Abfallmanagement,...

Little is known about the volume of international recycling in Asia, the problems caused and the struggle to properly manage the trade. This pathbreaking book addresses this gap in the literature, and provides a comprehensive overview of the international trade flow of recyclable waste in Asia...

France has a very ambitious environmental-policy agenda, aimed chiefly at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that followed the Grenelle de l'environnement encompass policy...

Green Taxation and Environmental Sustainability explores the critical issue of how taxes can be applied across relevant environmental areas – including transport, nuclear power, and water and waste management – to achieve sustainability. Containing topical chapters written by environmental...

France has a very ambitious environmental-policy agenda, aimed chiefly at cutting greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions but also at dealing with local air and water pollution, waste management and the conservation of biodiversity. The laws that followed the Grenelle de l'environnement encompass policy...

On 21 December 2009 the Irish High Court found that a regulatory proposal, the Variation, by the four Dublin local authorities, is a breach of national competition law. The Variation allows a single operator to collect household waste, irrespective of whether the operator is selected by...

Die wachsenden Müllberge in vielen Teilen der Welt werden zunehmend zur Belastung für die Umwelt und den Menschen. Der Konsum von Plastiktüten und deren Entsorgung tragen wesentlich zu diesem Vorgang bei. In dem Beitrag werden die Umweltfolgen und die politischen Reaktionen auf die...

This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and...

We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that...

Die wachsenden Müllberge in vielen Teilen der Welt werden zunehmend zur Belastung für die Umwelt und den Menschen. Der Konsum von Plastiktüten und deren Entsorgung tragen wesentlich zu diesem Vorgang bei. In dem Beitrag werden die Umweltfolgen und die politischen Reaktionen auf die...

This paper provides analyses of municipal waste generation and landfill diversion dynamics based on an 8-year panel dataset for Italy covering 103 provinces. Although absolute declining for waste generation is a long way off, there are some first signals of increasing relative delinking and...

This report assesses the environmental impacts of various ways of converting the technical bioenergy potential into electricity, heat and biofuels. It is based on 2006 EEA report "How much bioenergy can Europe produce without harmig the environment".

This report provides technical background for the estimation of the environmentally compatible bioenergy potential from agriculture that the EEA published in 2006. It also gives information on agri-environmental pressures that explain the environmental conditions in the EEA scenario. Finally,...

Summary report of the conference held on 27-29 September 2007, Ljubljana, Slovenia. This report was prepared by the organisers of the conference 'Time for action — towards sustainable consumption and production in Europe'. Three sets of three top-priority recommendations towards sustainable...

Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally with income, and economic and environmental costs...