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    Incineration overcapacity and waste shipping in Europe: the end of the proximity principle
    | Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Marta Jofra Sora
    2013

    This study was commissioned by the Association GAIA (Global Alliance for Incineration Alternatives) in 2013. The aim is to analyze the european market for waste incineration and transport…

    Determining factors for the presence of impurities in selectively collected biowaste
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Jaume Freire González| Marta Jofra Sora
    2013

    The presence of impurities in biodegradable waste (biowaste) causes problems with the management of waste, among which are additional costs derived from the need to improve pre-treatment of…

    Economic balance of door-to-door collection and road containers waste collection for local authorities and proposals for its optimisation
    | | Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Jaume Freire González| Marta Jofra Sora
    2013

    Municipal waste management is one of the main expenditures of local authorities. In the context of the crisis in which we find ourselves, this factor is crucial when considering the…

    Performance of compostable baby used diapers in the composting process with the organic fraction of municipal solid waste
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Maria Mestre Montserrat
    2013

    In modern societies, disposable diapers constitute a significant percentage of municipal solid wastes. They have been traditionally landfilled or incinerated as only limited recycling…

    Recent update of landfill and waste incineration taxes in Catalonia
    | | Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Marta Jofra Sora
    2012

    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…

    A Catalan residence for elderly people tests reusable diapers
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Maria Calaf Forn
    2012

    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…

    The weight of building materials in the social metabolism of Spain and conflicts on quarries
    | Research| Miquel Ortega Cerdà
    2012

    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…

    Landfill and waste incineration taxes in Catalonia
    | | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Marta Jofra Sora
    2012

    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…

    Building waste management core indicators through Spatial Material Flow Analysis: Net recovery and transport intensity indexes
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa
    2012

    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…

    Recognising ignorance in decision-making
    | Research| Miquel Ortega Cerdà
    2011

    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…

    Pay-As-You-Throw in Spain
    | | Ignasi Puig Ventosa| Maria Calaf Forn
    2011

    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…

    Un modelo Input-output de la energía para la estimación del efecto rebote indirecto en los hogares
    | Research| Jaume Freire González
    2011

    This research presents a methodology for estimating indirect rebound effect of energy efficiency improvements in households using energy Input-output analysis. Considering that, initially,…

    Assessing the Macroeconomic Impact of Water Supply Restrictions Through an Input–Output Analysis
    | Research| Jaume Freire González
    2011

    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,…

    Methods to empirically estimate direct and indirect rebound effect of energy-saving technological changes in households
    | | Research| Jaume Freire González
    2011

    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 effects of energy-saving technological change on energy consumption: assessing the rebound effect
    | | Research| Jaume Freire González
    2011

    Energy efficiency policies have a special importance within carbon emission reduction policies to mitigate the climate change effects. However, potential reductions of energy consumption…

    Possibilities of composting disposable diapers with municipal solid wastes
    | Research| Aina González Puig| Ignasi Puig Ventosa
    2011

    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…

    Payment for Ecosystems Services in Catalonia, Spain. A review of experience and potential applications
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa
    2011

    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…

    Taxation, Innovation and the Environment. The Spanish Case
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa
    2011

    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…

    R&D and Environmental Investments Tax Credits in Spain
    | Research| Ignasi Puig Ventosa
    2010

    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…

    Large discrepancies between agricultural outlook prediction and real trends
    | Research| Miquel Ortega Cerdà
    2010

    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…

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  • What is ENT?
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