Handbook on waste management / edited by Thomas C. Kinnaman and Kenji Takeuchi.

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TextSeries: Elgar original referencePublication details: Cheltenham : Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd., 2014.Description: xv, 460 p. : ill. ; 25 cmISBN:

9780857936851 (hbk.)
0857936859 (hbk.)

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363.728072 HAN 23 005610

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Table of contents

Contents:

Machine generated contents note: 1.The history and future of municipal solid waste characterization: New York City and the study of fortunes in refuse / Samantha MacBride pt. I BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 2.Is there a social norm to recycle? / Lucy O'Shea 3.Household waste management: waste generation, recycling, and waste prevention / Paul Missios 4.Environmental volunteer activities in local waste management / Shigeru Matsumoto 5.Household preferences for alternative trash and recycling services in small towns: is single stream the future of rural recycling? / Ju-Chin Huang pt. II FRONTIERS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 6.Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: evidence from England's waste management policy / Yuichiro Yoshida 7.Industrial waste shipments and trade restrictions / Toshiaki Sasao 8.International aspects of waste management: the waste haven effect on global reuse / Hide-Fumi Yokoo Contents note continued: 9.An initiative towards curbing the usage of plastic bags in supermarkets: a case study in Chennai, India / Nethravathi Prasad 10.Waste management beyond the Italian north south divide: spatial analyses of geographical, economic and institutional dimensions / Anna Montini pt. III ADVANCES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH 11.Waste management in the Netherlands / Raymond Gradus 12.Do not miss the opportunity! When to introduce monetary incentives / Marco Piovesan 13.Optimal trade and recycling policies in vertically related markets / Takayoshi Shinkuma 14.Factors in determining demand for reusable glass bottles / Daisuke Numata 15.Double asymmetry of information in a waste treatment contract / Eiji B. Hosoda 16.Size and density economies in refuse collection / Davide Vannoni.

Summary: The significant challenges associated with managing waste continue to attract international scholarly attention. This international Handbook scrutinizes both developed and developing economies. It comprises original contributions from many of the most prominent scholars researching this topic. Consisting primarily of empirical research efforts - although theoretical underpinnings are also explored thoroughly - the Handbook serves to further the understanding of the behaviors of waste generators and waste processors and the array of policies influencing these behaviors. The Handbook reveals how, broadly speaking, research in the area of waste management appears to be motivated by two sources of intellectual curiosity. First is the attempt to directly or indirectly inform our understanding of the development of solid waste policy. Economic incentives, including advanced disposal fees, recycling subsidies, unit-based pricing programs, and landfill taxes, appear commonly across developed countries, and understanding how effective these policies are at diverting waste is examined carefully in the Handbook. Second, other economists are motivated to study solid waste management decisions as an avenue to understanding how incentives and norms affect individual behavior. The blossoming area of behavioral economics is especially appropriate for application to solid waste management decisions, and the Handbook contains new research contributions that add to this expanding literature. 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 waste management decisions will find the work enlightening.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Indian Institute for Human Settlements, Bangalore	363.728072 HAN 005610 (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		005610

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Machine generated contents note: 1.The history and future of municipal solid waste characterization: New York City and the study of fortunes in refuse / Samantha MacBride
pt. I BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT
2.Is there a social norm to recycle? / Lucy O'Shea
3.Household waste management: waste generation, recycling, and waste prevention / Paul Missios
4.Environmental volunteer activities in local waste management / Shigeru Matsumoto
5.Household preferences for alternative trash and recycling services in small towns: is single stream the future of rural recycling? / Ju-Chin Huang
pt. II FRONTIERS IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
6.Does the NIMBY strategy really promote a self-interest?: evidence from England's waste management policy / Yuichiro Yoshida
7.Industrial waste shipments and trade restrictions / Toshiaki Sasao
8.International aspects of waste management: the waste haven effect on global reuse / Hide-Fumi Yokoo
Contents note continued: 9.An initiative towards curbing the usage of plastic bags in supermarkets: a case study in Chennai, India / Nethravathi Prasad
10.Waste management beyond the Italian north
south divide: spatial analyses of geographical, economic and institutional dimensions / Anna Montini
pt. III ADVANCES IN WASTE MANAGEMENT RESEARCH
11.Waste management in the Netherlands / Raymond Gradus
12.Do not miss the opportunity! When to introduce monetary incentives / Marco Piovesan
13.Optimal trade and recycling policies in vertically related markets / Takayoshi Shinkuma
14.Factors in determining demand for reusable glass bottles / Daisuke Numata
15.Double asymmetry of information in a waste treatment contract / Eiji B. Hosoda
16.Size and density economies in refuse collection / Davide Vannoni.

The significant challenges associated with managing waste continue to attract international scholarly attention. This international Handbook scrutinizes both developed and developing economies. It comprises original contributions from many of the most prominent scholars researching this topic. Consisting primarily of empirical research efforts - although theoretical underpinnings are also explored thoroughly - the Handbook serves to further the understanding of the behaviors of waste generators and waste processors and the array of policies influencing these behaviors. The Handbook reveals how, broadly speaking, research in the area of waste management appears to be motivated by two sources of intellectual curiosity. First is the attempt to directly or indirectly inform our understanding of the development of solid waste policy. Economic incentives, including advanced disposal fees, recycling subsidies, unit-based pricing programs, and landfill taxes, appear commonly across developed countries, and understanding how effective these policies are at diverting waste is examined carefully in the Handbook. Second, other economists are motivated to study solid waste management decisions as an avenue to understanding how incentives and norms affect individual behavior. The blossoming area of behavioral economics is especially appropriate for application to solid waste management decisions, and the Handbook contains new research contributions that add to this expanding literature. 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 waste management decisions will find the work enlightening.

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