Challenges and opportunities for the recycling industry in developing countries: the case of Sri Lanka

Gunarathne, Nuwan; Tennakoon, T. P. Y. C.; Weragoda, Janaka

doi:10.1007/s10163-018-0782-x

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“…However, Sri Lanka adopted the comprehensive national action plan to deal with climate change challenges in 2015. These policy-level initiatives have yet to implement in true letter and spirit because of lack of stakeholders support, insufficient policy level directions, and public awareness [ 79 ]. Among the other economic factors, FD significantly positively influences CO 2 at 5% level.…”

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Carbon Emissions in the SAARC Countries with Causal Effects of FDI, Economic Growth and Other Economic Factors: Evidence from Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Models

Kong

Javeed

Sattar

2021

IJERPH

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South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) countries like other developing countries are the major destination for foreign investors. At the same time, these countries are facing different climate change challenges. This study aims to inspect the economic determinants of carbon emissions (CE) and dynamic causal interaction of CE with foreign direct investment (FDI), economic growth (EG), and other economic factors using panel cointegration test, dynamic ordinary least squares (DOLS) and vector error correction model (VECM) for the SAARC countries. To make the homogenous analysis, we examined the association among variables for the individual country and as a group for the period 1990 to 2016. The panel results of this study confirmed the presence of the unidirectional causal association of EG with CE. The panel results of other economic factors confirmed the causality of urban population (UP) and energy consumption (EC) with CE. Moreover, the panel results of domestic capital (DS) and inflation rate (INF) confirmed the causal association with EG. Finally, the panel results of DS revealed a causality with FDI. Based on the above results, some policy guidelines are proposed.

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confidence: 99%

Carbon Emissions in the SAARC Countries with Causal Effects of FDI, Economic Growth and Other Economic Factors: Evidence from Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Models

Kong

Javeed

Sattar

2021

IJERPH

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“…Nevertheless, these strategies cannot directly make recycling done by the community. The government must also build public awareness about recycling itself [17][18][19].…”

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Community engagement and waste management policy: A comparative analysis

Brotosusilo¹,

Nabila

2020

E3S Web Conf.

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Municipal waste management has become a significant problem in many urban areas where solutions are complex and conflicting to form. One of the most important actors that can control waste management in a country is the government. Then the most important tool for setting standards in maintaining waste management is the public policy. Therefore, this paper will review and evaluate public policies that regulate solid waste management in China, Japan, and Malaysia, using secondary data. The three countries were chosen because their cases represented various significant and different factors that have often been an obstacle to waste management. The three case studies discuss community behavior analysis, policy mistranslation, and the lack of waste management infrastructure. The main obstacles of the waste management policy are to control people’s behavior, lack of garbage infrastructure, waste pickers are not organized, and lack of progress in waste management and recycling technology. The waste management policy needs to focus on increasing residents’ awareness to recycle and expand the producer’s responsibility to increase community engagement and boost successful waste management in a region or country.

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“…Zevenbergen and Pathirana (2018) called for monitoring water data using smartphone-based sensors to manage water efficiently in Chinese cities. Gunarathne, Tennakoon, and Weragoda (2019) revealed that policy-level interventions were essential to encourage recycling and separation of waste at source in developing countries like Sri Lanka. For the agriculture sector, adoption of environment-friendly solutions is the most prominent NBS dimension.…”

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Nature-Based Solutions in Tourism: A Review of the Literature and Conceptualization

Panchapakesan

Ramakrishna

Rasoolimanesh

2019

Journal of Hospitality & Tourism Research

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“Nature based solutions” are innovative solutions, which are inspired from nature, and applied to contemporary societal problems such as climate change, overtourism, poverty alleviation, and so on. The research on “nature-based solutions” in tourism is rudimentary and the main objective of this study is to identify and conceptualize the nature-based solutions in tourism. For this purpose, a hybrid literature review has been conducted in the scientific fields of tourism and hospitality as well as agriculture, building sector, and urban planning. An examination of the characteristics of the nature-based solutions have led to its conceptualization based on six constituent dimensions such as empowerment of stakeholders, monitoring the state of natural environment, economic development of residents, adoption of environment-friendly solutions, and changing the mind-set of stakeholders. Finally, limitations of the current study have been identified and some recommendations for further research have been provided.

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Challenges and opportunities for the recycling industry in developing countries: the case of Sri Lanka

Cited by 41 publications

References 12 publications

Carbon Emissions in the SAARC Countries with Causal Effects of FDI, Economic Growth and Other Economic Factors: Evidence from Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Models

Carbon Emissions in the SAARC Countries with Causal Effects of FDI, Economic Growth and Other Economic Factors: Evidence from Dynamic Simultaneous Equation Models

Community engagement and waste management policy: A comparative analysis

Nature-Based Solutions in Tourism: A Review of the Literature and Conceptualization

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