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dc.rights.licenseCC-BY-NC-ND
dc.contributor.advisorMonstadt, J.
dc.contributor.authorVdovin, V.
dc.date.accessioned2019-10-23T17:00:29Z
dc.date.available2019-10-23T17:00:29Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/34327
dc.description.abstractOur current form of resource management is based on a linear economy, intensified by the constantly growing population and consumerism culture. These trends causing serious pressure on our finite resources, results in constantly growing amounts of trash, have wide environmental implications and affect the social and economic sustainability. One of the current trends trying to depart from this linear approach is the circular economy (CE) concept. CE is a complex and vague concept, embodying a variety of domains, circular waste management being only one of them. CE and circular waste management are only rarely and fragmentedly implemented in practice, and these examples only seldom analyzed by the scientific literature. In addition, the involvement of individuals, private households and consumers in the transition process, although being one of the central enablers of the CE, is absent almost completely from scientific literature and policy measures. The aim of this thesis is to explore how can local governments, waste utility companies, and other private or public-private service providers support private households’ in more effectively contributing to CE through their waste management. Using Amsterdam as a case-study, this research analyzed the municipality’s and its’ partners activities along with the 5Es framework adopted for this research. Results suggest that the municipality of Amsterdam and its partners acknowledge that effective behavioral change can only be achieved through a ‘package’ of measures, utilizing all the 5E groups of instruments. The greater use of the municipality is of the “engage” and “enable” instruments, followed by a much smaller scope of initiatives using the “exemplify” and “enforce” instruments. The “encourage” instrument is used only to a very limited extent. The municipality of Amsterdam started its transition towards CE only 4 years ago. It seems that the municipality has introduced pathways to CE in general and to the domain of circular waste management in particular, but the process is still too slow, focusing mainly on the already existing waste management system. To enhance the transition process, more often use of “enforce” and “encourage” instruments should be made, CE should be defined as priority in the municipal policy agenda, and most importantly, the transition process should be led and facilitated by higher levels of governmental authorities – the national and international ones.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent875546
dc.format.mimetypeapplication/pdf
dc.language.isoen
dc.titleCircularity - transformation of household waste management into a more circular one
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.keywordscircular economy, waste management, socio-technical infrastructures, circular waste management hierarchy, private households, behavioral change
dc.subject.courseuuSpatial Planning


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