In modern societies, disposable diapers constitute a significant percentage of municipal solid wastes. They have been traditionally landfilled or incinerated as only limited recycling…
The article updates information about the canon of municipal waste, including the current tax rates (including new types of fee increase for municipalities that had not approved the plan to…
The article describes the experience of the introduction of reusable incontinence diapers held in the nursing home Pare Batllori of Barcelona between 2006 and 2009. Different types of…
This paper reviews recent trends on resource use in the Spanish building industry based on the social metabolism approach (Fischer-Kowalski, 1998). The growth of the Spanish economy from…
This chapter describes and analyses the effectiveness of the tax on landfill and incineration of municipal solid waste in Catalonia (Spain). Although four other Spanish autonomous regions…
In this paper, the material and spatial characterization of the flows within a municipal solid waste (MSW) management system are combined through a Network-Based Spatial Material Flow…
Agriculture is a complex system and a global activity that affects the lives of billions of people. Low agricultural productivity, for example, can lead to hunger or even famine, and have…
In Spain waste charges are widely implemented, but the application of pay-as-you-throw schemes is very limited. At the time of publication of this article, only five Spanish municipalities…
This research presents a methodology for estimating indirect rebound effect of energy efficiency improvements in households using energy Input-output analysis. Considering that, initially,…
Water supply restrictions due to droughts generate significant costs to many economic agents. Although these costs are difficult to assess, this article presents a methodology to quantify,…
Energy efficiency policies have a special importance within carbon emission reduction policies to mitigate the climate change effects. However, potential reductions of energy consumption…
Energy efficiency policies have a special importance within carbon emission reduction policies to mitigate the climate change effects. However, potential reductions of energy consumption…
The possibilities for the management of disposable diapers in municipal solid waste have been studied. An in-depth revision of literature about generation, composition and current treatment…
Payments for Ecosystem Services (PES) are an innovative environmental policy instrument that aims to reward natural resource managers in return for maintaining or improving the provision of…
The paper discusses the environmental impacts of tax incentives for innovation, and the innovation impacts of tax incentives for environmental expenditures, in the Spanish corporate income…
This case study examines the impacts of two tax credits in Spain: one for R&D investments and the other for investments in assets that relate to the environment. The tax credit for…
Agricultural international policies still base their decision-making process on tools that consider the agri-food system rather stable or, at most, as facing uncertainty conditions. Used…
This paper reviews the empirical literature concerning the direct rebound effect in households; it briefly analyzes the main theoretical and methodological aspects, and finally estimates…
Municipal waste management is one of the key areas of municipal environmental policy and is also the item on which town councils spend most resources. Therefore, a wide range of tools…
Until 2007, Spain experienced for a few years an exponential development of new urban areas. The article delves into the causes of this development, and specifically on the dependence of…
