Waste Management in Spatial Environments

Alessio D’Amato is Assistant Professor and Lecturer in Public Economics and Environmental Economics at the University of Rome "Tor Vergata", Italy. His research activity is focused on incentive theory, environmental regulation under asymmetric information, waste policy in the presence of illegal disposal and organized crime, and emissions trading.Massimiliano Mazzanti is Associate Professor in the Department of Economics and Management at the University of Ferrara, Italy. His research deals with environmental policy, the economics of innovation, waste management and policy, and climate change and development.Anna Montini is Assistant Professor in Economics, and Lecturer in Environmental Economics at the University of Bologna, Italy. Her main research interests lie in environmental economics and policy, waste management and environmental-economic performance at the spatial level.

• Introduction Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini Part I: The Italian Environment of Waste Management: Spatial analyses, convergence, illegal markets and policy assessments 1. A |Dynamic Assessment of Italian Landfill Taxes Dario Biolcati Rinaldi, Francesco Nicolli, Virginia Turchi and Michela Zappaterra 2. Measuring the Impact of Economic Incentives in Waste Sorting Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan and Lorenzo Valmasoni 3. Waste Generation and Delinking: A theoretical model with empirical application to the Italian municipalities Graziano Abrate and Matteo Ferraris 4. A Note on Illegal Waste Disposal, Corruption and Enforcement Alessio D’Amato and Mariangela Zoli 5. Separate Collection Target: Why 65% in 2012? Campania case study Giacomo D’Alisa and Maria Federica Di Nola Part II: The International Setting: Waste trade drivers, convergence and policy making in spatial-framed environments 6. International Waste Trade: Impacts and drivers Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli 7. Do Weak Environmental Regulations Determine the Location of US Exports of SLABs and Lead Waste? Derek Kellenberg 8. The Political Cost of Residual Municipal Solid Waste Taxation: Perception versus reality Simon De Jaeger