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Title
EU waste regulation in a linear-circular economy transition : waste management in Italy / Massimiliano Agovino, Gaetano Musella.
ISBN
9783031281037 (electronic bk.)
3031281039 (electronic bk.)
3031281020
9783031281020
Published
Cham : Springer, [2023]
Copyright
©2023
Language
English
Description
1 online resource (xiv, 87 pages) : illustrations.
Other Standard Identifiers
10.1007/978-3-031-28103-7 doi
Call Number
KJE6178.R43
Dewey Decimal Classification
344.2404/62
Summary
Waste management is a topical issue worldwide. In recent years, several requests have been made by citizens and associations to political decision-makers regarding the need for a significant improvement in waste management methods. Particularly considering the significant increase in awareness of social and environmental impacts and the economic consequences of non-virtuous waste management. There is growing attention on legislation and regulation's role in the waste sector. Regulation can help companies and citizens achieve a faster, more effective, and more efficient transition from a linear economy, based on the take-make-dispose paradigm, to a circular economy, in which the potential of waste as resources and secondary raw materials is exploited. This book is set in the wake of economic literature that tackles the transition from the linear to the circular economy. It focuses on the downstream stages of the waste management process (i.e. the waste treatment phase). In this regard, it is proposed a journey through the history of European waste legislation to study the waste sector's transition dynamics from a selfish and no longer sustainable economic model based on rampant consumerism to a far-sighted sustainable model addressing the well-being of future generations. Studying the changes in European waste regulations leads us to ask ourselves the following questions: how has waste collection changed in recent years? What are the new regulatory challenges that must be addressed to achieve the objectives of a circular economy? How successful has the EU legislation been in fostering the transition from a linear to a circular economy? Finally, has the European environmental legislation sprung a convergence process among European countries towards the circular economy, or has the definition of targets fuelled the already marked differences between EU countries?
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Includes bibliographical references.
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Series
SpringerBriefs in environmental science.
Part 1. From Linear to Circular Economy. The Impact of Environmental Legislation on Waste Management
Chapter 1 - The Transition from Linear to Circular Economy. The Case of Waste in European and Italian Environmental Legislation
Chapter 2. From European Legislation to its Implementation in Italy between Past and Present
Chapter 3. The Transition from Linear to Circular Economy Induced by Waste Management Legislation. A Shift-and-Share Analysis of European Countries and Italian Macro-Areas
Part 2. Convergence or Divergence from the Circular Economy Objectives. What are the Causes?
Chapter 4. The Integrated Waste Cycle in Italy and EU Countries
Chapter 5. Convergence or Divergence in Waste Treatment Methods? The Impact of Waste Management Legislation in the Transition to the Circular Economy Model.
