This research deals with the increasingly complex issues of waste generation, waste management and waste disposal that in less developed industrialised countries present diverse but critical concerns.

Introduction Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini Part 1: Waste Generation, Waste Management and Waste Disposal: Macroeconomic Analyses on Delinking and Policy Effectiveness 1. Delinking and Environmental Kuznets Curves for Waste Indicators in Europe: Evidence on Municipal Solid Waste and Packaging Waste Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli 2. Waste Generation and Waste Disposal: Evidence on Socio-Economic and Policy Drivers in the EU Massimiliano Mazzanti, Francesco Nicolli and Roberto Zoboli 3. Municipal Waste: Generation, Management and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Frits Møller Andersen, Mette Skovgaard and Helge Larsen 4. The Drivers of MSW Generation, Disposal and Recycling: Examining OECD Inter-country Differences Katia Karousakis Part 2: Waste Generation, Waste Management and Landfill Diversion: Policy-oriented and Regionally Based Analyses from Italy 5. Municipal Waste Generation, Socio-economic Drivers and Waste Management Instruments: Regional and Provincial Panel Data Evidence from Italy Massimiliano Mazzanti Anna Montini and Roberto Zoboli 6. Embedding Landfill Diversion in Economic, Geographical and Policy Settings: Regional and Provincial Evidence from Italy Massimiliano Mazzanti, Anna Montini and Francesco Nicolli 7. Reducing Uncertainty in the Monetary Assessment of Environmental Liabilities from Waste Landfilling Tiziana Cianflone and Kris Wernstedt 8. Separation of Organic Waste and Composting: European Policies and Local Choices Massimiliano Volpi