Introduction / Alessio D'Amato, Massimiliano Mazzanti and Anna Montini -- The Italian environment of waste management : spatial analyses, convergence, illegal markets and policy assessments -- A dynamic assessment of Italian landfill taxes / Dario Biolcati Rinaldi, Francesco Nicolli, Virginia Turchi and Michela Zappaterra -- Measuring the impact of economic incentives in waste sorting / Alessandro Bucciol, Natalia Montinari, Marco Piovesan and Lorenzo Valmasoni -- Waste generation and delinking : a theoretical model with empirical application to the Italian municipalities / Graziano Abrate and Matteo Ferraris -- A note on illegal waste disposal, corruption and enforcement / Alessio D'Amato and Mariangela Zoli -- Separate collection target : why 65% in 2012? : campania case study / Giacomo D'Alisa and Maria Federica Di Nola -- The international setting : waste trade drivers, convergence and policy making in spatial-framed environments -- International waste trade : impacts and drivers / Massimiliano Mazzanti and Roberto Zoboli -- Do weak environmental regulations determine the location of US exports of slabs and lead waste? / Derek Kellenberg -- The political cost of residual municipal solid waste taxation : perception versus reality / Simon De Jaeger.