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The benefits of contaminated site cleanup revisited : the case of Naples and Caserta, Italy

Alberini, Anna; Šcasný, Milan; Guignet, Dennis; … - 2010

Guerriero and Cairns (2009) recently estimate that contaminated sites and improper waste management result in 848 excess deaths per year in the provinces of Naples and Caserta in Southern Italy, 403 of which are fatal cancers. In the absence of estimates of the Value of a Prevented Fatality...

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Voluntary cleanups and redevelopment potential : lessons from Baltimore, Maryland

Alberini, Anna; Guignet, Dennis - 2008

Policy has increasingly shifted towards economic incentives and liability attenuation for promoting cleanup and redevelopment of contaminated sites, but little is known about the effectiveness of such policies. An example of such legislation is State Voluntary Cleanup Programs (VCPs), which were...

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The role of liability, regulation and economic incentives in brownfield remediation and redevelopment : evidence from surveys of developers

Alberini, Anna; Longo, Alberto; Tonin, Stefania; … - 2003

We examine different market-based mechanisms and other incentives intended to promote the environmental remediation and reuse of brownfields. Policies that encourage cleanup and re-use of brownfields offer real estate developers reductions in regulatory burden, relief from liability for future...

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Does hazardous waste matter? : Evidence from the housing market and the superfund program

Greenstone, Michael (contributor); … - 2005

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Waste generation, incineration and landfill diversion : de-coupling trends, socio-economic drivers and policy effectiveness in the EU

Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Zoboli, Roberto - 2008

Waste generation and waste disposal are issues that are becoming increasingly prominent in the environmental arena both from a policy perspective and in the context of delinking analysis. Waste generation is still increasing proportionally with income, and economic and environmental costs...

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Municipal waste collection : market competition and the EU policy

Reggiani, Carlo; Silvestri, Francesco - 2015

Two of the main pillars of the EU waste collection policy are the Proximity Principle and Self-Sufficiency Principle. According to those, waste should be disposed as close as possible to where it has been produced. The effect of such provision is to increase the market power of local disposers,...

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Flexible waste management under uncertainty

Di Corato, Luca; Montinari, Natalia - 2013

In this paper, we use stochastic dynamic programming to model the choice of a municipality which has to design an … optimal waste management program under uncertainty about the price of recyclables in the secondary market. The municipality … program rather than a non-flexible one, the municipality: i) invests in recycling capacity under circumstances where it would …

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Extended producer responsibility and trade flows in waste : the case of batteries

Compagnoni, Marco; Grazzi, Marco; Pieri, Fabio; Tomasi, … - 2023

In the debate on international waste trade, the focus on resource efficiency and recycling has gradually begun to accompany the focus on negative environmental externalities. In this context, we examine the impact of Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR) on the export of waste batteries (WB)....

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Rates of time preferences for saving lives in the hazardous waste site context

Alberini, Anna; Tonin, Stefania; Turvani, Margherita - 2009

What is the rate at which people discount future lives saved? The answer to this question has important implications when comparing policies on the grounds of cost per life saved, especially in the context of hazardous waste site remediation, where risk reductions may occur at different times,...

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Are You SURE You want to waste policy chances? : waste generation, landfill diversion and environmental policy effectiveness in the EU15

Iafolla, Valentina; Mazzanti, Massimiliano; Nicolli, … - 2010

We empirically test delinking of waste dynamics with regard to economic growth and the effectiveness of environmental and specific waste-related policies, by exploiting a newly constructed, integrated waste-economic-policy dataset based on official data for the EU15 for 1995-2007. We find that...

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