Center for Management Studies (CEG-IST), Avenida Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisbon, Portugal.
J Environ Manage. 2012 Sep 15;106:40-7. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.04.005. Epub 2012 May 2.
In a context of increasing international concern about public cost savings, research interest in the waste sector has gradually emerged. The literature on waste cost and inefficiency, particularly the use of parametric and non-parametric methods has increased exponentially in the last years. This paper reviews the developments, themes, objectives, concerns and characteristics of this kind of research, by reviewing a comprehensive database consisting of more than 100 relevant papers on economic performance of the waste services were published since 1965. Based on the econometric and mathematical programming methods (cost and product ion frontiers) used so far, the paper identifies characteristics of the waste research community (such as the authors' case-studies, aims of research, methods adopted, among others). Finally, it also identifies the main targets in this research field, such as market structure, ownership, incentives (through regulation and legal mechanism) and performance assessment.
在国际社会越来越关注公共成本节约的背景下，人们对废物领域的研究兴趣逐渐显现。近年来，关于废物成本和效率低下的文献，特别是使用参数和非参数方法的文献呈指数级增长。本文通过回顾一个由 100 多篇关于自 1965 年以来废物服务经济绩效的相关论文组成的综合数据库，回顾了这种研究的发展、主题、目标、关注点和特点。基于迄今为止使用的计量经济学和数学规划方法（成本和生产前沿），本文确定了废物研究界的特征（例如作者的案例研究、研究目的、采用的方法等）。最后，它还确定了该研究领域的主要目标，例如市场结构、所有权、激励措施（通过监管和法律机制）以及绩效评估。
