Wasting Time? Recycling Incentives in Urban Taiwan and Japan

Environmental and Resource Economics

Volumn 47, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 423-437

  Kuo, Yen Lien ^a   Perrings, Charles ^b  

^a NATIONAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY CENTER FOR DISASTER REDUCTION   (Taiwan)

^b ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Illegal dumping; Recycling; Solid waste; Waste disposal costs

Indexed keywords

COSTS; CRIME; LAND FILL; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTES; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CURBSIDE COLLECTIONS; DISPOSAL METHODS; DISPOSAL TO LANDFILLS; HOUSEHOLD WASTE; ILLEGAL DUMPING; RECYCLABLE MATERIAL; RECYCLING RATE; WASTE COLLECTION;

WASTE DISPOSAL;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; DOMESTIC WASTE; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; INCENTIVE; LANDFILL; POLLUTION POLICY; PRICING POLICY; RECYCLING; SOLID WASTE; URBAN AREA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

JAPAN; TAIWAN;

EID: 77958493026     PISSN: 09246460     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10640-010-9386-1     Document Type: Article

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