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Geography of waste as a new approach in waste management study

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Municipal waste management in the last two decades has become a global environmental priority in the context of increasing amounts of waste generated due to the development of a mass consumer society.Various issues of waste management , territorial and temporal variability, spatial analysis of treatment or disposal facilities, systemic implications on the environment, the harmonization of international policy at national, regional and local level are solid arguments for studying this field by geography. Mostly technical or economic studies, lacking a vision of territory are supplemented in the conceptual and methodological level by geographers. This paper performed on the one hand, an overview of various approaches in current literature on waste management issue and on another hand analyses the geographical contributions in this field. Our conclusions lead to the idea that waste management must be performed according to the geographical features of the territory concerned.

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  • Mihai, Florin-Constantin, 2012. "Geography of waste as a new approach in waste management study," MPRA Paper 61343, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2012.
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    1. Mihai, Florin-Constantin & Ghiurca, Ana-Andreea & Lamasanu, Andreea, 2011. "Estimation of urban waste generated and uncollected in Romania," MPRA Paper 61445, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2011.
    2. Mihai, Florin-Constantin & Apostol, Liviu, 2012. "Disparities in municipal waste management across EU-27. A geographical approach," MPRA Paper 61289, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2012.
    3. Liviu Apostol & Florin Constantin Mihai, 2012. "Rural waste management: challenges and issues in Romania," Post-Print hal-01150920, HAL.
    4. Andreea Lămăşanu & Florin-Constantin Mihai, 2011. "The Illegal Dumping of Waste in Forest Areas -Evidence from Rural Territory," Post-Print hal-01165849, HAL.
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    2. Mihai, Florin-Constantin, 2012. "Quantitative assessment method of illegal dumping în small rivers. Case study: Neamt County, Romania," MPRA Paper 61455, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised 2012.
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    4. Florin Constantin Mihai, 2013. "Performance assessment method of urban waste management systems from Neamț County, Romania," Post-Print hal-01150673, HAL.
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    Keywords

    waste management; interdisciplinarity; geography of waste;
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    JEL classification:

    • Q5 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics
    • Q51 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Valuation of Environmental Effects
    • Q52 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Pollution Control Adoption and Costs; Distributional Effects; Employment Effects
    • Q56 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Environment and Development; Environment and Trade; Sustainability; Environmental Accounts and Accounting; Environmental Equity; Population Growth
    • Q57 - Agricultural and Natural Resource Economics; Environmental and Ecological Economics - - Environmental Economics - - - Ecological Economics
    • R00 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General - - - General
    • R2 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis
    • R28 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Household Analysis - - - Government Policy
    • R5 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis
    • R52 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Land Use and Other Regulations
    • R53 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Public Facility Location Analysis; Public Investment and Capital Stock
    • R58 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - Regional Government Analysis - - - Regional Development Planning and Policy

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