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Improvements in Policy Planning for Resource Recovery

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  24 August 2009

Glenn R. Harris
Glenn R. Harris
Affiliation:
Assistant Director, Environmental Studies Program, St Lawrence University, Canton, New York 13617, USA.
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Global shortages of raw materials and growing problems of solid-waste management have made resource recovery a pressing concern of public policy for many governments. The purpose of this paper is to review policy planning for resource recovery. Planning in this as well as related arenas appears to suffer from several interrelated difficulties. One difficulty of public-policy planning is the inaccurate modelling in policy analysis; another is the common resistance to uniform implementation guidelines. Both of these difficulties appear to hinge on the problem of behavioural change.

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Environmental Conservation , Volume 6 , Issue 2 , Summer 1979 , pp. 117 - 125
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Copyright © Foundation for Environmental Conservation 1979

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