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Hussey, Karen --- "Climate mitigation and waste management in the Asia-Pacific" [2015] ELECD 200; in Van Calster, Geert; Vandenberghe, Wim; Reins, Leonie (eds), "Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law" (Edward Elgar Publishing, 2015) 407

Book Title: Research Handbook on Climate Change Mitigation Law

Editor(s): Van Calster, Geert; Vandenberghe, Wim; Reins, Leonie

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

ISBN (hard cover): 9781849803809

Section: Chapter 19

Section Title: Climate mitigation and waste management in the Asia-Pacific

Author(s): Hussey, Karen

Number of pages: 16

Abstract/Description:

The generation of waste is closely linked to population size, urbanization and affluence, but a state’s capacity to manage its waste and mitigate the greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions that derive from it, is a function of that state’s regulatory and institutional regimes and the extent to which it has access to appropriate resources, infrastructure and incentives. There is, therefore, a clear demarcation between developed and developing countries’ capacities to manage waste. This chapter provides an overview of key waste management policies in the Asia-Pacific, a highly diverse region which consists of developed economies (Australia, New Zealand, Singapore, Japan), economies-in-transition (Malaysia, Thailand, China, to name a few), and still relatively poor, developing countries (the Philippines, Vietnam, Laos, Myanmar, and all the Pacific island countries, again to name just a few). Owing to space constraints, this chapter focuses on two flagship countries that have introduced progressive waste management policies in recent years, some with the explicit intent to reduce GHG emissions.