Overview
""Waste Management and Planning"" presents a comprehensive selection of leading papers covering four main aspects of waste management: the waste problem, evaluation of waste management options, economic instruments, and legislation and policy. Part 1 examines the technical aspects of waste management in developing countries, such as waste generation, composition, management options and technologies. Part 2 discusses the evaluation of waste management options and includes papers on lifecycle assessment, multicriteria evaluation, and economic assessments. Part 3 focuses on economic instruments, packing policies, virgin material taxes and unit pricing. Part 4 includes papers on public participation, waste facility siting, the Basel Convention and papers on waste policy and legislation in the US, UK, The Netherlands and Tanzania.
Full Product Details
Author: Jane C. Powell ,
R. K. Turner ,
Ian J. Bateman
Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Imprint: Edward Elgar Publishing Ltd
Volume: 5
Dimensions:
Width: 16.90cm
, Height: 3.80cm
, Length: 24.40cm
Weight: 1.210kg
ISBN: 9781840642179
ISBN 10: 1840642173
Pages: 616
Publication Date: 26 September 2001
Audience:
College/higher education
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Professional and scholarly
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Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
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Professional & Vocational
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Availability: To order
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Reviews
`This book presents an overview of many relatively recent developments in the research around waste management and planning, including waste prevention and recycling. As such it presents a good introduction to students or new researchers in the field, and helps to determine directions for their research. It is also a suitable reference book for people in the field . . . the book contains a nice overview of important directions in waste management from a wide geographic and disciplinary background. It will benefit students in the field and may be helpful to select reading material for students. It may also provide policymakers with information on scientific research from a diverse background in an easy to access format.' -- Ernst Worrell, Resources, Conservation and Recycling
'This book presents an overview of many relatively recent developments in the research around waste management and planning, including waste prevention and recycling. As such it presents a good introduction to students or new researchers in the field, and helps to determine directions for their research. It is also a suitable reference book for people in the field ... the book contains a nice overview of important directions in waste management from a wide geographic and disciplinary background. It will benefit students in the field and may be helpful to select reading material for students. It may also provide policymakers with information on scientific research from a diverse background in an easy to access format.' -- Ernst Worrell, Resources, Conservation and Recycling
Author Information
Edited by the late Jane C. Powell, formerly Waste Management Programme Director, CSERGE, School of Environmental Sciences, University of East Anglia, R. Kerry Turner, Professor of Environmental Sciences, School of Environmental Sciences and Director, Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) and the Programme in Environmental Decision Making (PEDM), University of East Anglia, UK and Ian J. Bateman, OBE, Professor of Environmental Economics, Director of the Land, Environment, Economics and Policy Institute (LEEP), University of Exeter, UK
