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ToolsMarcello, Basili, Di Gennaro, Valentina and Ferrini, Silvia (2021) Let the citizens speak: an empirical economic analysis of domestic organic waste for community composting in Tuscany. Journal of Cleaner Production, 306. ISSN 0959-6526
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Abstract
Organic waste represents an opportunity and a challenge for policy decision makers and lately the attention has been focusing on community composting practices identifying the environmental and/or economic aspects. Evidence of citizens’ attitudes and preferences is scarce, and this paper aims to fill this gap. The results of a contingent valuation survey in three councils of the Province of Siena, Tuscany (Italy) are reported along with an extended cost-benefit analysis. Results echo previous findings that GHGs emissions and money-saving for all municipalities are positive and encouraging; moreover, our study proves that citizens are keen to switch to the community recycling composter system. Citizens present heterogeneous preferences and accordingly to the current waste management system they might need a small financial compensation to switch in favour of the local community system.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | citizens behaviour,community composting,domestic organic waste,recycling,sustainable development,environmental science(all),industrial and manufacturing engineering,renewable energy, sustainability and the environment,strategy and management,sdg 11 - sustainable cities and communities ,/dk/atira/pure/subjectarea/asjc/2300 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Centres > Centre for Social and Economic Research on the Global Environment (CSERGE) Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Environmental Social Sciences Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Collaborative Centre for Sustainable Use of the Seas |
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| Depositing User: | LivePure Connector |
| Date Deposited: | 28 Apr 2021 23:47 |
| Last Modified: | 06 Feb 2025 09:50 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/79891 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.jclepro.2021.127263 |
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