Household Waste Management Some Insights from Behavioural Economics /

• Main Authors: Gilli, Marianna (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Mancinelli, Susanna (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut), Nicolli, Francesco (http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Palgrave Pivot, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Subjects: Environmental economics.; Public finance.; Environmental Economics.; Public 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 behavioural economics is a growing field of rese...

Table of Contents:

• 1. Introduction
• 2. Individual Motivations and Waste-Related Behaviours
• 3. Waste Policies and Individual Behaviours
• 4. Prevention and Recycling Behaviours Across the EU
• 5. Do Motivations Crowd in Recycling Policies? Evidence from Italy.