The significant challenges associated with managing waste continue to attract scholarly attention from across the globe. The Handbook on Waste Management is comprised of a strong collection of original contributions from many of the most prominent global scholars studying waste today. Consisting primarily of empirical research efforts, this far-reaching Handbook serves to further the understanding of the behaviors of waste generators and waste processors and the array of policies that influence these behaviors.
Contents: 1. The History and Future of Municipal Solid Waste Characterization: New York City and the Study of Fortunes in Refuse PART I: BEHAVIORAL ECONOMICS AND WASTE MANAGEMENT 2. Is There a Social Norm to Recycle? 3. Household Waste Management: Waste Generation, Recycling and Waste Prevention 4. Environmental Volunteer Activities in Local Waste Management 5. Household Preferences for Alternative Trash and Recycling Services in Small Towns: Is Single Stream the Future of Rural Recycling? PART II: NOVEL RESEARCH QUESTIONS PERTAINING TO WASTE MANAGEMENT 6. Does the NIMBY Strategy Really Promote a Self-interest? Evidence from England's Waste Management Policy 7. Industrial Waste Shipments and Trade Restrictions 8. International Aspects of Waste Management: The Waste Haven Effect on Global Reuse 9. An Initiative Towards Curbing the Usage of Plastic Bags in Supermarkets: A Case Study in Chennai, India 10. Waste Management Beyond the Italian North - South Divide: Spatial Analyses of Geographical, Economic and Institutional Dimensions PART III: ENHANCING 11. Waste Management in the Netherlands 12. Do Not Miss the Opportunity! When to Introduce Monetary Incentives 13. Optimal Trade and Recycling Policies in Vertically Related Markets 14. Factors in Determining Demand for Reusable Glass Bottles 15. Double Asymmetry of Information in a Waste Treatment Contract 16. Size and Density Economies in Refuse Collection
