A quantitative analysis of municipal solid waste disposal charges in China

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 187, Issue 3, 2015, Pages

  Wu, Jian ^a,b   Zhang, Weiqian ^a   Xu, Jiaxuan ^a   Che, Yue ^a  

^a EAST CHINA NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b SHANGHAI ACADEMY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Environmental Kuznets curve; Municipal solid waste; Transitional waste charging schemes; Waste disposal charges

Indexed keywords

ECONOMICS; PLASTIC CONTAINERS; POTABLE WATER; WASTE DISPOSAL;

CURRENT PROBLEMS; DISPOSAL CHARGES; ECONOMIC CRITERIA; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVES; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE (MSW); QUALITATIVE AND QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; WASTE CHARGING; WASTE GENERATION;

MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE;

ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; INDUSTRIALIZATION; KUZNETS CURVE; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; POLICY APPROACH; POLICY IMPLEMENTATION; STAKEHOLDER; WASTE DISPOSAL; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

ARTICLE; CHINA; COMPARATIVE EFFECTIVENESS; COST EFFECTIVENESS ANALYSIS; COST UTILITY ANALYSIS; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL KUZNETS CURVE; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FEE; FINANCIAL MANAGEMENT; MUNICIPAL SOLID WASTE; PLOTS AND CURVES; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE STUDY; SOLID WASTE MANAGEMENT; WASTE DISPOSAL; CITY; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; PROCEDURES; SOLID WASTE; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

CHINA;

SOLID WASTE;

CHINA; CITIES; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; REFUSE DISPOSAL; SOLID WASTE; WASTE MANAGEMENT;

EID: 84922107396     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-015-4305-0     Document Type: Article

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