110642 20230519145416.0 doi 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148585 sideral 124966 ART-2021-124966 eng Alcay, Alejandro Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-5474-7714 Waste generation and the economic cycle in European countries. Has the Great Recession decoupled waste and economic development? 2021 Access copy available to the general public Unrestricted This paper studies the relationship between waste generation and economic development for a sample of European countries. In contrast to previous studies that have considered this relation to be stable over time, we apply methods for testing the presence of structural breaks located at unknown periods. This methodology provides robust evidence against the stability of the relationship, finding ruptures in the so-called dot.com crisis, in the early 2000s, and in episodes related to the Great Recession. Once these breaks are considered, we observe that waste generation shows considerable dependence on the evolution of the economy for those countries with the lowest per capita income levels. This suggests the existence of a trade-off between convergence policies and those aimed at avoiding environmental degradation, suggesting the need to maintain and reinforce environmental policies in the EU. info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/ES/MICINN/PID2020-13229RB-C44 info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess by-nc-nd http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/es/ 10.754 2021 ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES 26 / 279 = 0.093 2021 Q1 T1 1.806 2021 Environmental Chemistry 2021 Q1 Waste Management and Disposal 2021 Q1 Environmental Engineering 2021 Q1 14.1 2021 info:eu-repo/semantics/article info:eu-repo/semantics/acceptedVersion Montañés, Antonio Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0002-5872-631X Simón-Fernández, María-Blanca Universidad de Zaragoza (orcid)0000-0001-6811-1020 4014 225 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Economía Aplicada Área Economía Aplicada 4000 415 Universidad de Zaragoza Dpto. Análisis Económico Área Fund. Análisis Económico 793 (2021), 148585 [15 pp.] Sci. total environ. SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 0048-9697 2612419 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110642/files/texto_completo.pdf Postprint 1363078 http://zaguan.unizar.es/record/110642/files/texto_completo.jpg?subformat=icon icon Postprint oai:zaguan.unizar.es:110642 articulos driver 2023-05-18-14:00:54 ARTICLE