This paper investigates if and how illegal disposal of waste is affected by the decentralized waste management commitment of local governments and by enforcement policies. On the basis of a panel dataset at the Italian provincial level that originally integrates waste, economic, policy and...

pt. 1. The Italian environment of waste management : spatial analyses, convergence, illegal markets and policy assessments -- pt. 2. The international setting : waste trade drivers, convergence and policy making in spatial-framed environments.