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. Contributors: A. Abbott, G. Abrate, A. Bucciol,
S. Das, E. Dijkgraaf, Fabrizio Erbetta, I. Ferrara, G. Fraquelli,
R. Gradus, J.M. Halstead, E.B. Hosoda, J-C. Huang, D. Ichinose, S.
MacBride, S. Matsumoto, M. Mazzanti, P. Missios, N. Montinari, A.
Montini, S. Nandeibam, D. Numata, L. O'Shea, M. Piovesan, N.
Prasad, T. Sasao, T. Shinkuma, H. Sugeta, D. Vannoni, C. Wright, M.
Yamamoto, H-F. Yokoo, Y. Yoshida,
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