Household Waste Management Some Insights from Behavioural Economics

This book surveys existing literature from both waste management and behavioural sciences to offer a complete overview of how economic agents relate to a central matter in the policy making agenda: that of waste prevention and recycling. Environmental beh

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Household Waste Management

Marianna Gilli · Susanna Mancinelli Francesco Nicolli

Household Waste Management Some Insights from Behavioural Economics

Marianna Gilli Department of Economics and Management University of Ferrara Ferrara, Italy

Francesco Nicolli European University Institute Florence, Italy

Susanna Mancinelli Department of Economics and Management University of Ferrara Ferrara, Italy

Department of Political and International Sciences University of Siena Siena, Italy

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ISBN 978-3-319-97809-3 ISBN 978-3-319-97810-9  (eBook) https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97810-9 Library of Congress Control Number: 2018950051 © The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2018 This work is subject to copyright. All rights are solely and exclusively licensed by the Publisher, whether the whole or part of the material is concerned, specifically the rights of translation, reprinting, reuse of illustrations, recitation, broadcasting, reproduction on microfilms or in any other physical way, and transmission or information storage and retrieval, electronic adaptation, computer software, or by similar or dissimilar methodology now known or hereafter developed. The use of general descriptive names, registered names, trademarks, service marks, etc. in this publication does not imply, even in the absence of a specific statement, that such names are exempt from the relevant protective laws and regulations and therefore free for general use. The publisher, the authors and the editors are safe to assume that the advice and information in this book are believed to be true and accurate at the date of publication. Neither the publisher nor the authors or the editors give a warranty, express or implied, with respect to the material contained herein or for any errors or omissions that may have been made. The publisher remains neutral with regard to jurisdictional claims in published maps and institutional affiliations. Cover illustration: © Melisa Hasan This Palgrave Pivot imprint is published by the registered company Springer Nature Switzerland AG The registered company address is: Gewerbestrasse 11, 6330 Cham, Switzerland

Contents

1 Introduction 1 2 Individual Motivations and Waste-Related Behaviours 5 3 Waste Policies and Individual Behaviours 25 4 Prevention and Recycling Behaviours Across the EU 39 5 Do Motivations Crowd in Recycling Policies? Evidence from Italy 57 Index 81

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Attitudes of EU citizens towards waste reduction (Source Flash Eurobarometer 388 Report [2014]) Efforts to reduce waste as perceived by the respondents, by country (Source Own elaboration on FL 388 data) Waste recycling by country (Source Own elaboration on FL 388 data. Countries (from the left): Austria, Germany, Belgium, Ireland, Sweden, Luxembourg, Netherlands, United Kingdom, Italy, France) Waste recycling by country (Source Own elaboration on FL 388 data. Countries (from the left): Slovakia, Finland, Czech Republic, Portugal, Malta, Spain, Slovenia

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