Waste Sustainability, Environmental Management and Mafia: Analysing Geographical and Economic Dimensions

D'Amato, Alessio, Massimiliano Mazzanti () and Francesco Nicolli ()

No 213, CEIS Research Paper from Tor Vergata University, CEIS

Abstract: Waste management / disposal performances and a desirable delinking between income and waste trends are influenced by socio economic, institutional and policy factors. In highly regionalised settings many idiosyncratic factors of local interest influence waste management and disposal. Through an impact on policy enforcement costs, crime activities in a defined area and their geographical spillovers, may negatively affect legal forms of waste management and disposal. Given its high regional heterogeneity and known plague of Mafia in areas affected by recent =waste crisis‘, Italy is a compelling case study: in full consistence to a theoretical model that analyzes how legal disposal (landfill), illegal disposal and recyclable waste levels are influenced by waste tariff and crime; econometric analysis on Italian provinces, shows that separated collection and legal forms of waste disposal are lower when crime spills are present. Crime activities erode and slow down the enhancement of waste management and disposal brought about by socio economic and structural factors enhanced by the introduction of newly crafted economic minded tariffs.

Keywords: waste tariffs; crime; mafia; waste management and disposal; enforcement costs; recycling. (search for similar items in EconPapers)
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Date: 2011-10-24, Revised 2011-10-24
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