Waste Management in Spatial Environments

Taylor & Francis

Waste Management in Spatial EnvironmentsAuthor(s): Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd, United Kingdom\nImprint: Routledge\nISBN-13: 9781138904903, 978-1138904903\nSynopsis\nThe increasing scarcity of land and the ever-rising amount of waste produced worldwide, coupled with the consequent change of focus by policy makers from waste disposal and recovery to waste prevention is boosting research in the 'economics of waste'.\n\nThis volume addresses waste-management and waste-disposal issues, embedding them in spatial, systemic and trade-related frameworks. The collection is policy oriented, including socio-economic and political science perspectives in order to provide an understanding of real world phenomena, and thus maximize its value for policy making.\n\nThe book includes contributions on the linkages between income and waste generation and landfilling (such as the waste Kuznets curve conceptual framework), i.