Disparities in municipal waste management across EU-27. A geographical approach

Florin Mihai and Liviu Apostol

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Abstract: Inadequate waste management leads to many environmental issues and the adoption of an efficient and sustainable waste management has become a priority objective of the EU. However, besides the demographic factors, the various socio-economic and geographical conditions of this complex space lead to major disparities in municipal waste management between North and South, East and West. This paper aims to do a spatial-temporal analysis of the Eurostat indicators using ascending hierarchical cluster analysis that divides the member states into five typological classes. The resulted maps highlight territorial disparities among Member States on municipal waste management and also reveal the evolution of environmental policies between 2003-2009 related to the EU acquis.

Keywords: territorial disparities; municipal waste; spatial-temporal analysis (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: C00 C8 C80 C89 O2 Q50 Q56 R00 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2012, Revised 2012
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Published in Present Environment and Sustainable Development 1.6(2012): pp. 169-180

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