Short-term/Long-term Solutions In Waste Management: Economics And The Transition Process |
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| Institution: | 1. Department of Land Resources Management and Environmental Protection, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Mekelle, Ethiopia;2. Institute of Geoinformation and Earth Observation Sciences, Mekelle University, P.O. Box 231, Ethiopia;3. Faculty of Environmental Sciences and Natural Resource Management, Norwegian University of Life Sciences, P.O. Box 5003, No-1432 Ås, Norway;4. University of Leuven, Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Division Forest, Nature, Landscape, Celestijnenlaan 200E, P.O. Box 2411, Leuven 3001, Belgium;1. Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;2. Chief, Division of Gynecologic Oncology; Vice Chair of Academic Affairs, Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York;3. Director, Gynecologic Oncology Outcomes Research, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Boston, Massachusetts;4. Harvard Medical School, Boston, Massachusetts;5. Director, Institute for Technology Assessment, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;6. Associate Chair, Integrated Imaging & Imaging Sciences, Department of Radiology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts;7. Executive Director, Clinical Enterprise Integration, Mass General Brigham Radiology, Boston, Massachusetts;1. Department of Marine Science, University of Calcutta, 35 Bc Road, Kolkata, 700019, India;2. Department of Remote Sensing and GIS, Vidyasagar University, Midnapore, 721102, India;1. Environmental Geography Group, VU University Amsterdam, De Boelelaan 1085, 1081 HV, Amsterdam, the Netherlands;2. Horn of Africa Regional Environment Centre and Network, Addis Ababa University, P.O.Box 80773, Addis Ababa, Ethiopia;1. Department of Environmental Health Sciences, University of California Los Angeles, 650 Charles E. Young Dr. South, Rm 46-059 CHS, Los Angeles, CA 90095, USA;2. Department of Environmental Science and Technology, University of Maryland, 1421 Bldg. #142, College Park, MD 20742, USA;1. School of Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, PR China;2. Research Center of Applied Statistics, Jiangxi University of Finance and Economics, Nanchang, Jiangxi 330013, PR China;3. Collaborative Innovation Center for Energy Economics and Energy Policy, China Institute for Studies in Energy Policy, Xiamen University, Fujian 361005, China;4. Newhuadu Business School, Minjiang University, Fuzhou 350108, China |
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| Abstract: | Cleaner technology and recycling, as the preferred solution to waste management, is increasing in implementation but not at the rate expected given the successes and paybacks associated with those strategies. The reasons for the delay in implementation lie in the conflict between short-term and long-term solutions. The factors that contribute to hindrance or facilitation of the transition are found in: a) the distinction between the short-term and the long-term at a technical level; b) the distinction between the short-term and the long-term at a political level; c) the investment decision at the firm level; and d) related investments in infrastructure, organization, and institutions. This article identifies which constraints will disappear with time, which constraints are institutional and will require deliberate modification, and which constraints are permanent and must be considered part of the costs of the long-term solution. The goal is not to argue against short-term solutions, but for the need to acknowledge unavoidable costs associated with the transition from the short-term to the long-term solution. |
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