Economic Instruments for the Management of Solid Wastes. The Case Escazu
It presents the problematic of solid waste management in Costa Rica, it is proposed it’s integral and sustainable management as a solution and the importance of the use of economical instruments as an argument for the achievement of this. It is approached the problem of solid waste from the traditio...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2007 |
| Country: | Costa Rica |
| Institution: | Universidad Nacional de Costa Rica |
| Repository: | Portal de Revistas UNA |
| Language: | Spanish |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:www.revistas.una.ac.cr:article/8162 |
| Online Access: | https://www.revistas.una.ac.cr/index.php/ambientales/article/view/8162 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Manejo de desechos sólidos manejo integrado instrumentos económicos Escazú Solid waste management integrated management economic instruments Escazu |
| Summary: | It presents the problematic of solid waste management in Costa Rica, it is proposed it’s integral and sustainable management as a solution and the importance of the use of economical instruments as an argument for the achievement of this. It is approached the problem of solid waste from the traditional perspectives, it is analyzed it’s insufficiencies and it is proposed the consideration of more integral focuses based in the principle of prevention of damage more than it’s compensation. It is presented the results of the evaluation of solid waste management in Escazú with base in the principles of integral and sustainable solid waste management, and it is concluded that this management has and intermediate adjustment (in it’s environmental and economical aspects) and the principles of integral and sustaintable management of solid waste. Finally, economical instruments are proposed for the achievement of integral and sustainable management of solid waste according with the previously evaluated weaknesses. |
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