RESEARCH AND CONSULTANCY - Waste management
| Project: | Cost Analysis Models in Waste Management |
| State: | Finished |
| Submitter: | Ministry of Environment of the Czech Republic |
| Time of Relevance: | 2002–2004 |
| Brief Summary: | The project is based on requirements of state environmental policy focusing on impacts of legislation changes modeling in waste management. The cohesion of economic life areas with waste management issues enables to bear on economic modeling, that offers the optimal instruments to be chosen in order to achieve desired goals. |
| Project Objective: | The main project objective is to create backgrounds for legislation efficiency evaluation in a waste management, as in a sector of national economy. The analysis would be developed in relation with macroeconomic model focusing on various waste and packages, prevention and minimalization of the waste. |
| Outputs: | The project analysis and its partial segments are based on complexity of the waste management issues (including the relevant legislation) and their relation with the whole economy system of the Czech Republic. The project has been segmented on partial sub-projects (modules), that cover actual waste management issues and micro and macroeconomic models. Particular modules would be solved with intensive interaction and in connection with other modules. The basic milestones in analysis progress are workshops. The workshops would be pursued by sub-contractors and the submitter as well. Depending on the solution results and submitter’s opinion it is possible to disseminate these workshops to broad scientific public. Some of the workshops (especially those at the end of a calendar year) should be hold as checking days. The project team is going to focus on the analysis of microeconomic relationships and influence factors, dependence derivation, data resources, etc. within framework of the modules that would be parallely resolved. The modules can contain partial outcomes of each period of time relevance (cost determining economic models in municipal waste management, etc.). Component costs assessment models, cost models depending on various factors and their evaluation in modeling environment (on microeconomic level (companies, municipalities) and mezoeconomic level regions)) should be part of the modules as well. Waste prevention issues and waste minimalisation issues are rather interdisciplinar topics and they marginally appear in each of the modules that are focused on matter-of-fact issues. Likewise, aggregate waste production issues have the connection with modules of matter-of-fact issues within a broad context. The main outcome of the project would be a macroeconomic model, because it is a standard macroeconomic instrument for complex cost analysis in waste management in developed countries as there is a general equilibrium model applied. The models are modified to comprehend basic macroeconomic relations that are relevant for mentioned issues. |