• ISBN13: 9780415687188
• Binding: Hardcover
• Subject: Earth-Science/Environment
• Publisher: T&F
• Publisher Imprint: Routledge
• Publication Date: January 1, 2013
• Pages: 224
• Original Price: GBP 150.0
• Language: English
• Edition: N/A
• Item Weight: 477 grams
• BISAC Subject(s): Public Finance and Economics / General

This 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 maximise its value for policy making.

Alessio D'Amato is Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Public Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. His research activity is focused on incentive theory, environmental regulation under asymmetric information, waste policy in the presence of illegal disposal and organized crime, and emissions trading.

Massimiliano Mazzanti is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Ferrara, Italy. His research deals with environmental policy, the economics of innovation, waste management and policy, and climate change and development.

Anna Montini is Assistant Professor in Economics, and Lecturer in Environmental Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests lie in environmental economics and policy, waste management and environmental-economic performance at the spatial level.