Inter-municipal cooperation in waste management: The case of Poland
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2016
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Wydział Nauk Geograficznych i Geologicznych Uniwersytetu im. Adama Mickiewicza
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This article seeks to present the scale of inter-municipal cooperation in waste management in Poland in the
light of the role of three key factors of cooperation. The first shows spatial regularities in the distribution of inter-municipal
bodies involved in waste management in Poland, both in the system of voivodeships and historical-cultural
regions. The second is institutional conditions confirming the scale of the Europeanisation of public policies taking
place in Poland. It embraces the implementation of the EU legal framework in the Polish legal system and the cooperative
behaviour of municipalities as a result of those changes. The third is a negative verification of the assumptions
of the economic theory upholding the role of financial motivation in establishing cooperation (looking for savings and
economies of scale to reduce unit cost); the presented results do not corroborate this type of motivation.
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inter-municipal cooperation, waste management, Europeanisation, Poland
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Quaestiones Geographicae vol. 35 (2), 2016, pp. 91-104