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T1 Waste management in the spanish municipalities: is commitment to Local Agenda 21 more than good intentions?
T2 La gestión de residuos en los municipios españoles: ¿hay algo más que buenas intenciones tras la adhesión a la Agenda 21 Local?
A1 Navarro Espigares, José Luis
A1 Martín Segura, José Aureliano
A1 Pérez López, César
A1 Maraver Tarifa, Guillermo
K1 Local Agenda 21
K1 Waste management
K1 Difference in differences
K1 Agenda Local 21
K1 Gestión de residuos
K1 Diferencia en diferencias
K1 H72
K1 Q53
K1 Q58
K1 Q58
K1 C21
K1 C33
K1 Economía
K1 Economics
K1 Geografía
K1 Geography
K1 Sociología
K1 Sociology
AB Spain is one of the European countries with more municipalities adhering to the Local Agenda 21 (LA21). Environmental spending exerts a great influence on implementing LA21. But some authors raise doubts about the firm commitment of local governments to LA21 objectives. Thus, the main objective of this paper is to verify whether political commitment is backed up with action towards meeting the objectives of sustainable development by means of budgetary support for waste management policies. To accomplish this, we applied the Difference in Differences technique for the period 2002-2012 in the Spanish municipalities. Our initial results confirmed the original hypotheses and showed that local governments that adhered to LA21 were genuinely committed to achieving at least one LA21 goal and offering greater budgetary support for waste management. However, the sensitivity analysis revealed unexpectedlyambiguous evidence about the research question, in that we observed a great volatility of results depending on the sample and dependent variables chosen.
PB Asociación Española de Ciencia Regional (AECR)
SN 2340-2717
YR 2018
FD 2018
LK http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33439
UL http://hdl.handle.net/10017/33439
LA eng
NO Universidad Complutense de Madrid
DS MINDS@UW
RD 27-abr-2024