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The Metropolitan Transport Entity of Barcelona levies a surcharge on the real estate tax of eighteen municipalities in its area to finance public transport. In order to analyze and to…
With the premise that economic instruments are effective in promoting environmental improvements, such as reducing waste and increasing the percentage of separate collection of municipal…
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Progressively over time, forest owners have accused decreasing returns from their properties due to changes in demand and prices that many forest products have experienced. By contrast, the…
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The Government of Aragon commissioned the Fundación Ecología y Desarrollo to carry out this study, in which ENT played a major role as a subcontractor. First, we described the…
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The Cabildo de Lanzarote (Canary Islands) was the first local Administration in Spain to consider the introduction of a tax on tourism, locally known as “ecotax”. The only previous…
This article was published in the newsletter “Green Budget News” in 2004. It tackles the introduction of the canon of waste in Catalonia, detailing the tax rate, the finalist…
Material throughput is a means of measuring the so-called social metabolism, or physical dimensions of a society’s consumption, and can be taken as an indirect and approximate indicator…
The municipality of Torrelles de Llobregat decided to implement a pay-as-you-throw municipal waste scheme to offer a more equitable charge for citizens who generate less waste. Before the…
During the last years, there have been different initiatives oriented to contain the environmental pressures in the island of Lanzarote, in spanish’s Canary Islands. Theses pressures…
Torrelles de Llobregat applied the first pay-as-you-throw experience in Spain, where every household and commercial activity paid the waste charge according to the amount and type of waste…
This poster analyses the options to implement an ecological tax reform in the island of Lanzarote (Spain). Different possibilities are considered at the municipal, island and regional…
In 2003 the town of Torrelles de Llobregat (Barcelona) introduced a door to door waste collection scheme, through which the different waste fractions were collected on different days at the…
This poster introduces the concept of cellular-automata models and presents an application to the case of forest fires. From a statistical perspective, it also discusses similarities with…
A primary objective of this study was to find the correspondence between the income raised by the City Council of Barcelona from charges and other levies for different activities and the…
This dissertation compares the statistics of two forest-fire databases from Catalonia and Ontario (Canada), with the results from a forest-fire cellular-automata model. Strong similarities…
