Regulatory structures and operational environment in the Portuguese waste sector

Waste Management

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2010, Pages 1130-1137

  Simões, Pedro ^a   De Witte, Kristof ^b,c   Marques, Rui Cunha ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

^c MAASTRICHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DOUBLE BOOTSTRAPS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONTEXTS; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCTS; NON-PARAMETRIC; OPERATIONAL ENVIRONMENTS; PER CAPITA; POPULATION DENSITIES; REGULATORY STRUCTURE; SOLID WASTE SERVICES; SOLID WASTE UTILITIES;

ENVIRONMENTAL REGULATIONS; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTES;

WASTE INCINERATION;

BOOTSTRAPPING; COMPOSTING; EFFICIENCY MEASUREMENT; INCINERATION; LINEAR PROGRAMING; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; REGULATORY APPROACH; WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE TREATMENT;

ARTICLE; CAPITAL; COMPOSTING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; INCINERATION; POPULATION DENSITY; PORTUGAL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOCIOECONOMICS; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; STATISTICAL MODEL; URBAN AREA;

HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PORTUGAL; PUBLIC POLICY; REFUSE DISPOSAL;

PORTUGAL;

EID: 77951253198     PISSN: 0956053X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.wasman.2009.12.015     Document Type: Article

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