MY topic is 7)- Fees for solid waste disposal to landfills
You can, instead, focus on the national or international solid waste import/export and the commercial
recycling (like the cases in Turkey, Sweden, Asia, …).
Rubric:
The main purpose of this research is finding real world cases or projects in the area of your topic,
which show how economic and market mechanisms are used to solve or reduce the impact of
environmental problems. Please see below for the list of topics. The cases should be selected and
such that you should be able to analyse and compare them in terms how effective they have been in
solving environmental problems, who were involved the project (government/private sector …), how
financially sustainable these approaches were in achieving their environmental targets, ….
In order to help you, your paper should include, among other things, the following steps. Please note
that your final paper must have a complete article structure from introduction to conclusion and
references with an internal coherence. These steps are just to help you to organize your paper, and not
to be treated like questions to be answered mechanically.
1)- Find a few actual real world implemented projects and policies in the area of your topic. (25 points)
2)- Discuss the environmental problem(s) to be solved by your choices of projects or programs.
(10 points)
3)- Very briefly review the economic theory underlying the solution(s) implemented in your cases to
solve the abovementioned environmental problem(s). Please note that in this essay we are focusing on
economic tools, policies, and market mechanisms to solve the environmental problems. (10 points)
4)- You can discuss and review many projects, but you need to expand at least a few of them in more
details in order to compare them, in terms of the incentive structure (the role of private/government in
the project), managerial and implementation structures, geographical coverage, sectoral coverage, the
final outcomes and effectiveness of the programs to achieve the goals (whether they were successful or
unsuccessful).