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Solid waste management: the barriers to sustainability on remote islands

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dc.contributor.advisor Rogers, Juan D.
dc.contributor.author Chirico, Jennifer M. en_US
dc.contributor.committeeMember Kingsley, Gordon
dc.contributor.committeeMember Melkers, Julia
dc.contributor.committeeMember Mirsky, Rebecca
dc.contributor.committeeMember Norton, Bryan
dc.contributor.department Public Policy en_US
dc.date.accessioned 2013-01-17T21:59:30Z
dc.date.available 2013-01-17T21:59:30Z
dc.date.issued 2011-11-14 en_US
dc.description.abstract Waste generation rates continue to grow around the world, creating a need for more comprehensive waste management strategies to meet sustainability needs. Remote islands are profoundly affected by the growth in waste and have a critical need to develop policy that addresses their unique characteristics, such as limited land space for waste disposal, higher per capita waste generation rates due to tourism, and lack of opportunities for interstate waste transport. This case study investigated one Hawaiian County's collaborative approach to adopting a new solid waste management policy. Ostrom's Institutional Analysis and Development Framework (IAD) was utilized to examine the facilitating and impeding institutional factors that affect the adoption of more sustainable waste management approaches on remote islands. The impeding factors that created barriers to sustainability included blueprint models, lack of financial incentives, financial cost, infrastructure, exclusion from waste services, remoteness, and illegal dumping. Facilitating factors were environmental concerns and exemplary waste examples by other communities. Recommendations are provided for addressing these barriers and using the available opportunities to work toward greater sustainable resource management on remote islands. en_US
dc.description.degree PhD en_US
dc.identifier.uri http://hdl.handle.net/1853/45901
dc.publisher Georgia Institute of Technology en_US
dc.subject Waste management en_US
dc.subject Sustainability en_US
dc.subject Islands en_US
dc.subject.lcsh Refuse and refuse disposal
dc.subject.lcsh Island ecology
dc.title Solid waste management: the barriers to sustainability on remote islands en_US
dc.type Text
dc.type.genre Dissertation
dspace.entity.type Publication
local.contributor.advisor Rogers, Juan D.
local.contributor.corporatename School of Public Policy
local.contributor.corporatename Ivan Allen College of Liberal Arts
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