Download or read book The Economics of Household Garbage and Recycling Behavior written by Don Fullerton and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2002 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nine articles by economists Fullerton (U. of Texas-Austin) and Kinnaman (Bucknell U.), or by one or the other and another author, are reprinted from publication in journals or other anthologies between 1995 and 2000, and joined by one previously unpublished one. Among the aspects of solid waste economics they pick through are residential solid waste management, how a fee per-unit garbage affects aggregate recycling in a model with heterogeneous households, and presumptive tax and environmental subsidy. They do not provide a subject index. Annotation copyrighted by Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Download or read book Household Waste Management written by Marianna Gilli and published by Springer. This book was released on 2018-08-25 with total page 89 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental behavioural economics is a growing field of research, yet investigation in this area concentrates mostly on energy savings or pollution reduction. The authors highlight the importance of the role of waste management, analysing the effect of monetary and non-monetary incentives and motivations, and explores the complex interplay between motivations, recycling, minimisation and waste policies to affect consumer behaviour. This book will be of interest to researchers and policy-makers in the fields of waste management and environmental economics.
Download or read book The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management written by Thomas C. Kinnaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2003 with total page 456 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "20 Scott J. Callan and Janet M. Thomas (1997), 'The Impact of State and Local Policies on the Recycling Effort', Eastern Economic Journal, 23, pp. 411-23"--"21 Karen Palmer, Hilary Sigman and Margaret Walls (1997), 'The Cost of Reducing Municipal Solid Waste', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 33, pp. 128-50"--"22 Kelly H. Tiller, Paul M. Jakus and William M. Park (1997), 'Household Willingness to Pay for Dropoff Recycling', Journal of Agricultural and Resource Economics, 22, pp. 310-20"--"23 Deborah Vaughn Nestor and Michael J. Podolsky (1998), 'Assessing Incentive- Based Environmental Policies for Reducing Household Waste Disposal', Contemporary Economic Policy, 16, pp. 401-11" -- "24 Michael J. Podolsky and Menahem Spiegel (1998), 'Municipal Waste Disposal: Unit Pricing and Recycling Opportunities', Public Works Management and Policy, 3, pp. 27-39" -- "25 Natalie Tawil (1999), 'Flow Control and Rent Capture in Solid Waste Management', Journal of Environmental Economics and Management, 37, pp. 183-201" -- "26 Thomas C. Kinnaman and Don Fullerton (2000), 'Garbage and Recycling with Endogenous Local Policy', Journal of Urban Economics, 48, pp. 419-42
Download or read book An Economic Analysis of Household Waste Management written by Chongwoo Choe and published by . This book was released on 1997 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Economics of Solid Waste Reduction written by Robin R. Jenkins and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 1993 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The growing solid waste stream is a looming environmental problem as many communities in the United States ans Europe face a shortage of disposal capacity.
Download or read book The Economics of Waste written by Richard C. Porter and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2010-09-30 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this concise, engaging, and provocative work, Richard Porter introduces readers to the economic tools that can be applied to problems involved in handling a diverse range of waste products from business and households. Emphasizing the impossibility of achieving a zero-risk environment, Porter focuses on the choices that apply in real world decisions about waste. Acknowledging that effective waste policy integrates knowledge from several disciplines, Porter focuses on the use of economic analysis to reveal the costs of different policies and therefore how much can be done to meet goals to protect human health and the environment. With abundant examples, he considers subjects such as landfills, incineration, and illegal disposal. He discusses the international trade in waste, the costs and benefits of recycling, and special topics such as hazardous materials, Superfund, and nuclear waste. While making clear his belief that not every form of waste presents the same amount of risk, Porter stresses the need for open-minded approaches to developing new policies. For students, policymakers, and general readers, he provides insight and accessibility to a subject that others might leave out-of-sight, out-of-mind, or buried under an impenetrable prose of statistics and jargon.
Download or read book Pro environmental Behavior and Preferences written by Gorm Kipperberg and published by . This book was released on 2006 with total page 426 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Handbook on Waste Management written by Thomas C. Kinnaman and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2014-05-30 with total page 481 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Readership will be broad including academic economists researching waste issues and researchers specializing in waste management and more widely in environmental policy, behavioral economics, and public economics. International policymakers engaged in
Download or read book Waste and Recycling written by Takayoshi Shinkuma and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2011-04-06 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: As "business as usual" has become the mantra of today's world, it's unlikely to see a decrease in hazardous waste generated from greater economic growth. Written by renowned experts, the book suggests a solution, supported by theoretical arguments to this waste problem. The book discusses how main problems for waste management can be addressed through appropriate policies adopted by governments in OECD countries. The book also raises thoughtful questions on how household waste management services should be privatized and who should pay for the disposal and recycling costs. It attempts to answer these questions. The book considers several factors hindering the first-best optimal outcome and highlights two crucial ones. It elaborates further with models and the solutions on how to overcome these obstacles. The book covers not only traditional resource economics and waste management, but also the recent problem of Electric waste (E-waste) and illustrates in details, how the environments of developing countries are inevitably polluted even with the Basel ban Amendment in place. The book proposes an alternative international trading regulation to address E-waste. This book will certainly appeal to industry decision-makers, policy makers and legislators.
Download or read book Economies of Recycling written by Catherine Alexander and published by Zed Books Ltd.. This book was released on 2012-08-09 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For some, recycling is a big business; for others a moralised way of engaging with the world. But, for many, this is a dangerous way of earning a living. With scrap now being the largest export category from the US to China, the sheer scale of this global trade has not yet been clearly identified or analysed. Combining fine-grained ethnographic analysis with overviews of international material flows, Economies of Recycling radically changes the way we understand global and local economies as well as the new social relations and identities created by recycling processes. Following global material chains, this groundbreaking book reveals astonishing connections between persons, households, cities and global regions as objects are reworked, taken to pieces and traded. With case studies from Africa, Latin America, South Asia, China, the former Soviet Union, North America and Europe, this timely collection debunks common linear understandings of production, exchange and consumption and argues for a complete re-evaluation of North-South economic relationships.
Download or read book The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management written by Thomas C. Kinnaman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-10-24 with total page 444 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The market of municipal solid waste (MSW) collection and disposal has changed substantially over the past thirty years. This study will help guide both newcomers and past contributors through the fundamental aspects of policies designed to reduce the external costs of MSW collection, and the important empirical relationships that, in the end, govern the selection of MSW policies. The International Library of Environmental Economics and Policy explores the influence of economics on the development of environmental and natural resource policy. In a series of twenty-five volumes, the most significant journal essays in key areas of contemporary environmental and resource policy are collected. Scholars who are recognized for their expertise and contribution to the literature in the various research areas serve as volume editors and write essays that provides the context for the collection. Volumes in the series reflect three broad strands of economic research including 1) Natural and Environmental Resources, 2) Policy Instruments and Institutions and 3) Methodology. The editors, in their introduction to each volume, provide a state-of-the-art overview of the topic and explain the influence and relevance of the collected papers on the development of policy. This reference series provides access to the economic literature that has shaped contemporary perspectives on land use analysis and policy.
Download or read book Analyses of Recycling Behavior Recycling Demand and Effectiveness of Policies Promoting Recycling written by Shaufique Fahmi Sidique and published by . This book was released on 2008 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book A Household Production Approach to Modeling Household Recycling Effort written by Roger Martini and published by . This book was released on 1995 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Household recycling is an important means by which social costs of solid waste disposal may be reduced. These costs include energy and resource costs of collection and disposal as well as environmental costs from emissions from landfills, incinerators, and collection vehicles. In this thesis, a household production model is used to represent the decision faced by the household in determining the level of effort to commit to recycling activities. The decision regarding the level of effort the household commits to recycling is hypothesized to be a function of economic variables such as the cost of solid waste disposal and expenditure on goods for both direct consumption and as inputs into production in the home, as well as of the demographic characteristics of the household. Two empirical models are developed, using data collected by the Portland Metro Association. The first of these models specifies a linear relationship between recycling behavior and the economic and demographic variables in the model. The second model is somewhat more complex, making use of the indirect utility function of the household. Redacted for Privacy The results of the empirical analysis show that the greater the price change associated with increasing solid waste disposal volume, the greater the probability that the household will devote more effort to recycling. As well, the age and education of the female head of the household and the presence of a child in the home also affect the households decision to recycle. Household recycling may be encouraged by municipal planners by using an escalating price structure for solid waste disposal. Additionally, recycling programs should emphasize convenience over other considerations such as variety of materials collected.
Download or read book How a Fee Per unit Garbage Affects Aggregate Recycling in a Model with Heterogeneous Households written by Thomas C. Kinnaman and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper develops a utility maximizing model of household choice among garbage disposal, recycling, and littering. The impact of a user fee for garbage collection is modelled for heterogeneous households with different preferences for recycling. The model explains (1) why some households participate in curbside recycling programs even in the absence of a user fee, (2) why other households do not participate, even in the presence of a user fee, and (3) why some households choose to litter when others do not. Household choices are aggregated to determine the effect of a user fee on the community-wide quantities of garbage, recycling, and litter. We show how an increase in the user fee can decrease aggregate recycling.
Download or read book The Economics of Residential Solid Waste Management written by Thomas C. Kinnaman and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper provides a broad overview of recent trends in solid waste and recycling, related public policy issues, and the economics literature devoted to these topics. Public attention to solid waste and recycling has increased dramatically over the past decade both in the United States and in Europe. In response, economists have developed models to help policy makers choose the efficient mix of policy levers to regulate solid waste and recycling activities. Economists have also employed different kinds of data to estimate the factors that contribute to the generation of residential solid waste and recycling and to estimate the effectiveness of many of the policy options employed
Download or read book Household Waste in Social Perspective written by Stewart Barr and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2017-07-05 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The principal barrier to the introduction of more sustainable disposal methods has previously been thought to be the lack of both available knowledge and an awareness of the benefits and ease of these systems. Illustrated by an in-depth analysis of waste reduction, reuse and recycling behaviour in Exeter, Devon, this volume questions these assumptions. It not only provides a fresh examination of the previous (mainly US-focused) research into the underlying determinants of waste management behaviour from a geographical perspective, but also develops a new theoretical model based on the Theory of Reasoned Action. Linking three broad categories: environmental values, situational characteristics and psychological factors, the book provides a timely evaluation of research on household waste management, develops an original analytical model and demonstrates the utility and importance of focusing on individual attitudes.
Download or read book Household Demand for Garbage and Recycling Collection with the Start of a Price Per Bag written by Don Fullerton and published by . This book was released on 1994 with total page 64 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
