Separate waste collection in mountain municipalities. A case study in Campania

•Separate Waste Collection (SWC) in mountain areas is more difficult than elsewhere.•We evaluate the impact of land characteristics on SWC management.•We perform the Geographically Weighted Regression on 550 municipalities of Campania.•Improving SWC in presence of land characteristics requires actin...

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Published in:Land use policy 2020-02, Vol.91, p.104408, Article 104408
Main Authors: Agovino, Massimiliano, Musella, Gaetano
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Altimetry
Case studies
Citizens
Environmental economics
Garbage collection
Geographically weighted regression
Heterogeneity
Housing
Impact analysis
Italy
Land
Land use
Local government
Mountains
Municipalities
Regression analysis
Separate waste collection
Solid waste
Spatial heterogeneity
Waste management
Waste management industry
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Summary:•Separate Waste Collection (SWC) in mountain areas is more difficult than elsewhere.•We evaluate the impact of land characteristics on SWC management.•We perform the Geographically Weighted Regression on 550 municipalities of Campania.•Improving SWC in presence of land characteristics requires acting on citizens. This paper aims to analyse the impact of land characteristics (i.e. altimetry and housing dispersion) on separate waste collection, with a focus on mountain municipalities. The high spatial heterogeneity of the driving factors of separate waste collection allows traditional techniques, such as OLS, to offer only a partial depiction of the situation, missing important information. In this view, we perform the Geographically Weighted Regression (GWR), which allows to control for the local determinants of waste management. Our data cover 550 municipalities of Campania, in Southern Italy. We control for a set of morphological and socio-economic variables, drawn from official records for 2012. Our results show that the relationships between land characteristics and separate waste collection are not constant over space. Moreover, they suggest that in the presence of non-modifiable factors (such as land characteristics) local governments should act on citizen motivations, promoting awareness on environmental issues, and should implement time-saving collection methods.
ISSN:0264-8377
1873-5754
DOI:10.1016/j.landusepol.2019.104408