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Decreasing the Environmental Risks Through Inclusion of the Private Companies in the Process of Household Waste Management

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Municipalities in Bulgaria face environmental risks regarding household waste management. They have difficulties in accomplishing the goals set for waste recycling and recovery. The economic instruments applied on local level are not effective enough. That is why new solutions are searched in order to increase effectiveness of waste management policy and decrease environmental risks. The objective of the paper is to gather information on the waste management services market, the private companies’ main activities, obstacles to their expansion and attitude to future development and investments. The study went through several main steps: case study analysis of the institutional environment; sociological analysis of the empirical data on the business motivation and attitudes; modularity analysis of the transfers and transactions and theory-based identification of an appropriate governance structure.

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    Hierarchy has a competitive advantage to single suppliers, when collective decisions are better, when decisions require information which is scattered among a lot of individuals, when it is cheaper to transmit information centrally, and not through the market, or when it is cheaper to make decisions centrally or professionally through professional networks.

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  1. Department of Natural Resource Economics, University of National and World Economy, Sofia, Bulgaria

    Daniela Ivanova & Dessislava Kotcheva

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    Francesca Culasso

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Ivanova, D., Kotcheva, D. (2019). Decreasing the Environmental Risks Through Inclusion of the Private Companies in the Process of Household Waste Management. In: De Vincentiis, P., Culasso, F., Cerrato, S.A. (eds) The Future of Risk Management, Volume I. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-14548-4_2

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