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来源类型 | FEEM working papers "Note di lavoro" series |
规范类型 | 论文 |
Waste Generation, Incineration and Landfill Diversion. De-coupling Trends, Socio-Economic Drivers and Policy Effectiveness in the EU | |
Massimiliano Mazzanti; Roberto Zoboli | |
发表日期 | 2008 |
出处 | Climate Change and Sustainable Development |
出版年 | 2008 |
语种 | 英语 |
摘要 | 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 associated to landfilling are also increasing. This paper provides a comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to assess the effects of different drivers (economic, structural, policy) and the eventual differences between western and eastern EU countries. We show that for waste generation there is still no Waste Kuznets Curve (WKC) trend, although elasticity 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 and increasing, with policy providing a strong driver. It demonstrates the effectiveness of policy even in this early stage of policy implementation. This is essential for an ex post evaluation of existing landfill and incineration directives. Eastern countries appear to perform generally quite well, thus benefiting from their EU membership and related policies in terms of environmental performances. We may conclude that although absolute delinking is far from being achieved for waste generation, there are first positive signals in favour of an increasing relative delinking for waste generation and average robust landfill diversion, and various evidence of a significant role of the EU waste policies implemented in the late 1990s and early 2000s on landfill diversion. Waste prevention is nevertheless the next necessary target of waste regulatory efforts. |
特色分类 | C23,Q38,Q56 |
关键词 | Waste Kuznets Curves,Delinking,Waste Generation,Waste Disposal,Landfilling,Landfill Policies,Evaluation Methodology,Incineration |
URL | https://www.feem.it/en/publications/feem-working-papers-note-di-lavoro-series/waste-generation-incineration-and-landfill-diversion-de-coupling-trends-socio-economic-drivers-and-policy-effectiveness-in-the-eu/ |
来源智库 | Fondazione Eni Enrico Mattei (Italy) |
资源类型 | 智库出版物 |
条目标识符 | http://119.78.100.153/handle/2XGU8XDN/117618 |
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714 | Massimiliano Mazzanti,Roberto Zoboli. Waste Generation, Incineration and Landfill Diversion. De-coupling Trends, Socio-Economic Drivers and Policy Effectiveness in the EU. 2008. |
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