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This study analyses the environmental and financial sustainability of solid waste management in Indian cities. It … presents an assessment of the rapidly rising volume of municipal solid waste, its changing composition, the continuing practice … of mixing biodegradable (wet) waste with dry waste at the source of generation, and the growing volume of plastic in the …
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selection and market variables such as the unit charge for waste management, a result probably affected by the high degree of …
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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 absolute delinking for waste generation is far from being achieved in …
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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 … comprehensive analysis of waste generation, incineration, recycling and landfill dynamics based on panel data for the EU25, to …
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The present research proposes a macroeconomic assessment of the role of waste incineration with energy recovery (WtE …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …We exploit novel data collected within a randomised controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
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how intra-household gender differences in perceptions of costs and benefits of sanitation impact investment decisions. We …We exploit novel data collected within a randomized controlled trial of a sanitation microcredit intervention to study … we document influence borrowing and investments: uptake of the sanitation loan is higher among households where the wife …
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