The EU advocates a household waste recycling rate of more than 70%. Although the Netherlands already years ago invested … in recycling policies heavily, this is still a large challenge as nowadays on average this rate is approximately 50% and … policies are effective in increasing the recycling rates. Based on a large panel data set for the Netherlands , we show that …

have to exert separation effort to produce near-homogeneous waste streams suitable for recycling. Our model explicitly … guide recycling as well as legal disposal (landfilling) and illegal dumping. Both the number and level of taxes and …

systematic allocation of resources (e.g., financial means, leadership, creativity, innovation, and entrepreneurship) to sustain …

specific attention to the efficiency, sustainability, and fairness of solutions to this model. We compare and contrast both …

This discussion paper resulted in a publication in <I>Environment, Development and Sustainability</I>, 2010, 12(1), 49 … compares three aggregate indicators of sustainability: the World Bank’s ‘Genuine Savings’ measure, the ‘Ecological Footprint …’ and the ‘Environmental Sustainability Index’. It is concluded that rankings of sustainable nations vary significantly …

-averse peoplemight be suited to entrepreneurship; and it may also help explain why prior researchhas generated mixed evidence about the … effects of risk aversion on selection into entrepreneurship. …